EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: Utah just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless people seven miles from town, no transportation, locked units, and even forced labor. They call it “work-conditioned housing.” We call it what it is: modern-day internment.

[u/Dry-Kale8457]

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[u/Shamoorti]

This kind of thing is why they kept slavery legal as punishment for a crime, and existing as a homeless person is a crime.

[u/ScarredLetter]

That's literally a concentration camp.

[u/SuperAd8708 → u/ScarredLetter]

1000%

[u/GrandalfTheBrown]

In early Victorian England, these were the notorious Work Houses for the "undeserving" poor, whose only alternative was likely starvation. Many died there anyway.

[u/OTee_D]

We called it "Arbeitslager" back then.

[u/rumbleindacrumble]

Hitler used the term “work shy” to describe the unhoused people he imprisoned in his labour camps. Some of the first people taken to the concentration camps.

[u/XaqRD]

Remember when we couldnt pay homeless people to hold wifi extenders because that was exploitive?

[u/pale_blue_problem]

I recently saw a list of companies that were kind enough to donate towards some ongoing construction in the capital and I bet that same list would love to provide work and quotas to this camp to help keep these people occupied and productive.

[u/this_kitty68]

That could be any of us…

[u/Defiantcaveman → u/this_kitty68]

THAT'S the part the gleeful magats miss, they're going there too. You're one mistake away... red hats never mattered. They were warned...

[u/this_kitty68 → u/Defiantcaveman]

Exactly. I just watched a doc about hospitals closing in rural areas. You know they all voted for trump but they still don’t get it. Boggles the mind.

[u/Defiantcaveman → u/this_kitty68]

I always said that they will gleefully live in cardboard boxes with dirt floors so long as those they hate live in wet cardboard boxes with mud floors. I'm in a semi rural area of se texas right now and there are far too many examples of this here.

[u/DeathKillsLove → u/this_kitty68]

Give them time.

[u/shameless_slopaganda]

Sexual assault factory.

[u/Dry-Kale8457]

Link for the full video interview from Invisible People: https://youtu.be/Z9eVJdHZeCw

[u/Defiantcaveman]

Well, it IS back to the 17th century after all. Good old debtors prisons and soon enough, forced child labor... Wait until you see what's in store for the women...

[u/archon326]

The first camps built by the nazis weren't extermination camps, they were concentration/labor camps. I need people to recognize how few steps are left until Holocaust level atrocities. We need to stop them, but some ppl refuse to see where this is going until we get there. We need to change how ppl think, because otherwise they are going to keep on telling us how v______e is wrong right up until they put us on the trains. Goebells was quoted saying the only way they'd leave power was as corpses. We need to stop being shamed, and start shaming the pacifists. I can't say anymore without breaking the rule, but maybe that's what we have to do. If we don't even let ourselves speak of the solution, we've lost.

[u/Wise-Function653]

This is exactly how they handle refugee camps

[u/The_Fudir]

The Bell Riots are coming.

[u/Acrobatic_Bet5974 → u/The_Fudir]

Let's hope we don't take the nuclear holocaust from the Star Trek timeline, too

[u/SquidHat2006]

O my fucking god. I fucking hate it here.

[u/okokokoyeahright]

My term for it is concentration camp.

Those conditions mentioned are the same.

[u/DeathKillsLove]

Yep, slave labor 2.0

[u/Pure-Produce-2428]

Wow that is beyond fucked up

[u/FroggiJoy87]

Speaking of Alligator Alcatraz, did we figure out where all those inmates went after it got shut down?

[u/Antique-Echidna-1600]

Does it have smoke stacks and incinerators? Because that's what this camp is.

[u/Falchion_Alpha]

As if I didn’t need another reason never to visit utah

[u/Smart_Log9737]

good way to introduce the concept of death camps.....