Think the Nazis invented the concentration camp? Nope. When the British couldn't defeat South African farmers, they invented the concentration camp to go after their wives and children.

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[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

That's so funny any typical of u/chipit that in an attempt to apologize for the Nazis he's actually totally incorrect.

The first concentration camps were used by the Spanish empire during the Ten Year War against Cuba in the 1860s.

The name "concentration camps" comes from the Spanish "reconcentrados".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years%27_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconcentration_policy

After the Spanish, the next nation to deploy concentration camps were the Americans, during the Spanish-American and Philipene-American war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War

The third use of civilian concentration camps is the British Boer war that OP refers to. Of course, rudimentary camps have been used to detain enemy prisoners and civilians for millennia. A concentration camp is different, because it's an industrial production designed to keep a people detained indefinitely. It's an application of modernity to that age old prisoner camp.

It doesn't matter. Literally nobody's life is improved by learning whether or not u/chipit can show that the Nazis didn't invent concentration camps. Chipit just feels like it's important to stick up for the reputation of Nazis today, for whatever reason.

So how come chipit didn't check about the prior documented uses of reconcentrados in history? It's because he has real problems with consuming false information on the internet. Don't be like chipit. Don't just believe whatever you hear from conspiracy blogs and tankie youtube

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

It's more reminding the world that the British are evil fucks who committed great crimes, but if you want to go on a two hour research project so you can post a comment here, go right ahead. Me, I think it's weird someone has that kind of time to dedicate to excusing war crimes, but OK.

Ohhhh right, you're a paid poster. This is literally your day job. Well good job fighting for evil, then. $36 well-spent.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

You've assumed wrongly that it would take two hours. That's because you've never actually validated a piece of fake information which you consume online, so you have no idea how long it takes.

Me, I think it's weird someone has that kind of time to dedicate to excusing war crimes

You have covered up for Spanish war crimes in its colonial empire, you tried to minimise the American atrocities in the Philippines and you apologised for the reputation of Nazis. Obviously you're on the Bourbon payroll, taking your thirty doubloons to cover up the Carlist Spanish warcrimes

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

So, how much time did it take? I've heard you people get $18/hour to work from home.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Zero because it came up on a podcast a while ago so I already knew about it. How much are you paid to salvage the Nazi's reputation?

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You sound like a frustrated graduate student. You know, the people who did this to you aren't right-wingers. They're your fellow travelers. Academia is dominated by Marxists, and if they didn't want you around - well I can understand the rage you feel. There was an article I read or posted a few days ago about people like you. You read it, I assume, it's part of your job after all.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Absolutely. Yes. The government pays graduate students to fact-check chipit's posts on saidit. Hourly, not salaried. That's a totally normal addition to chipit's worldview. Now, the government pay graduate students by the hour to follow him online and fact check him. It's true.

But you forgot the reason why they do it. They have to fact-check you, because you're so hopelessly wrong all the time. You're gullible and completely incapable of scrutinising information if it's in favor of your bias. And so, to correct the record, the government pays graduate students hourly to follow you around the internet fact-checking you. Totally normal thing for chipit to add to his worldview guys.

Help wanted

Federal agency seeks internet fact-checker to correct a great mind of the conspiracy boards. Bachelors essential. Must agree to NDA.

Position is hourly with no healthcare. Eighteen bucks an hour.

Totally normal, chipit

Omg I love talking to you

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah, you don't work for the government. But I see what you did there. Make false claims and then pretend to debunk the claims you made. It's called strawmanning and is an essential tool in any paid poster's arsenal.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, which false claim did I make then pretend to debunk?

I know that you know the answer, but some people trying to follow along might not see it. So, please tell us what it was, help everyone see how duplicitous I've been

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They're your fellow travelers. Academia is dominated by Marxists

This would be "Marxists" who deny the existence of class struggle and are almost entirely members of the bourgeoisie, especially the managerial class and the elite class?

21st century academia has appropriated the language of Marxism for a completely anti-Marxist political philosophy that combines crony capitalism and right-wing authoritarianism with just enough fake "social justice" virtue signalling to fool useful idiots into thinking they are progressive.

Talk is cheap. Look at what they do, not what they say, and don't be fooled by their social justice performances which somehow never actually improve the lot of poor members of oppressed minorities, but only of privileged insiders who appropriate the label of "minority". They are as Marxist as Jeff Bezos, but without Bezos' kind and nurturing attitude towards the poor.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Those aren't real Marxists"

said the Marxist for the 11,348,008,173th time

come on, it's like you people's mantra

PS you posted from the wrong account, you forgot to change identities

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"Those aren't real Marxists"

said the Marxist for the 11,348,008,173th time

I'm not a Marxist, but I do know what Marxism is, unlike you. It's not just a word for the bogey-man. This may come as a shock, but it is possible for the world to contain more than one bad thing.

American academics use the language of Marxism for an ideology that is completely opposed to Marxism. In Marxism, class struggle between the working class and the bourgeoisie capitalist class is fundamental. You will never hear American woke academics talk about class struggle, except to accuse genuine socialists of being racist when they try to centre class instead of race. American academics, for the most part, are the bourgeoisie, either capitalists themselves or closely aligned to the capitalist class.

you posted from the wrong account, you forgot to change identities

What crack are you smoking?

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

American academics use the language of Marxism for an ideology that is completely opposed to Marxism.

Oh that's hilarious! Credentialed experts who work for our best universities don't know what it is, but you, random internet commenter, do.

"That's not real Marxism. Real Marxism has never been tried."

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The name "concentration camps" comes from the Spanish "reconcentrados".

Today I learned.

[–]Hoomsns 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not true at all. They invented concentrated orange and grape drink and so they called them concentration camps.

I used to go to school.

[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The European countries, like British, were heavily into the slave trade and all its parts, including plantations, slave boats, and the such, long before America existed. They loved their sugar, spices, and tobacco. Yet, they were competing with many others at the time, just as America was using slaves to compete with Europe's slave supported industry, in the beginning. European countries likely weren't even the most prolific in their own era, but they surely weren't considering all eras.

[–]Oyveygoyim 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What's wrong with concentration camps?

[–]Hoomsns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, yeah, bla, bla... I also understand that black folks in Africa have been keeping slaves all around the world since the dawn of time and some still do have slaves.

I can also personally testify that Arabs "love" to keep slave labor around and they are doing that right now as in today.. they do this in broad daylight by hiring workers from other countries and bringing them to places like Saudi Arabia by promising them big wages, but when the worker arrives in Saudi the employer will seize his passport and then for one reason or another he does not pay out the promised salary.

Muslims are some tightwads to work for, I can attest to that from personal experience. If they can get away with it, they will work you eighteen hours per day for food and a pile of dirt to sleep in.. it's actually in the Quran commanding Muslims to enslave nonmuslims.

Video - sharia patrol in UK

https://youtu.be/rcsG-u2GtZE