Elites typically use fears of rising crime to unleash systematic violence against marginalized communities. Means: A sudden increase in crime ( Cambridge). Support CAGE’s fight against the abuses of the War on Terror and No More Death’s work to keep people out of immigration detention. imprisons populations of people of color without charges for arbitrary periods of time are never called concentration camps. government concentrated Japanese Americans in camps at the same time as Roma, Jewish, gay, and disabled people were sent to concentration (and then extermination) camps in Germany ( History). in April alone ( CBS), over 32,000 mostly non-white people are trapped in ICE detention facilities with almost no legal rights, despite not being charged with a crime ( PPI). While 20,000 Ukrainians were legally admitted into the U.S. government also imprisons asylum seekers indefinitely with no obligation to consider their release. They continue to be held indefinitely, in violation of international law, after being subjected to years of sexual assault, prolonged freezing temperatures, sleep deprivation, and beatings ( Georgetown). Of the dozens of prisoners who remain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, most have never been charged with a crime ( Newsweek, CBS). Though the first concentration camps were built by the British in South Africa, they’re commonly associated with Nazi Germany, which built concentration camps like Dachau alongside extermination camps like Auschwitz (Holocaust Memorial Museum, Britannica).
Unlike prisons, concentration camps don’t hold people convicted of crimes. Means: Centers for the indefinite detention of political dissidents or ethnic minorities. Support the National Lawyers Guild and Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. If those are felony charges, you’re instantly deprived of the right to vote, leaving you with objectively less political voice than citizens of one-party states ( Britannica). “The outcome,” said one judge, “is very largely determined by the prosecutor alone” ( The Marshall Project). That means the government simply decides what your punishment will be. Unless: You’re actually facing criminal charges, in which case there’s a 90% chance you’ll be pressured into a plea deal instead of defending yourself in a court of law.
#Charged language trial
political discourse, authoritarian countries like Venezuela or China are used to highlight the positive aspects of U.S.-style representative democracy, which guarantees civil liberties like the right to an impartial trial ( ThoughtCo). Means: An authoritarian government is characterized by “demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish” ( Cambridge). Support the community organizations linked below each definition whose struggles are minimized by misusing politically-charged terms.Practice media literacy to identify loaded language and politically-charged terms in common political discourse.See part one of the ARD Loaded Language ABCs here.
A political system that can only justify itself through politically-charged terms cannot be described as truly open and free. Today, we continue investigating the insidious loaded language that corrupts public discourse. Even single words can covertly impart bias, impeding clear communication about issues of social importance to the benefit of those already in power.
Language might be coded as authoritative or uneducated, though the meaning remains the same. A speech or slogan might inspire solidarity, indifference, resistance, or hate. “Shifting how we think about language and how we use it,” wrote bell hooks, “necessarily alters how we know what we know” ( NLO).
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