I like “appetizer sized hats” as a description of yarmulkes. I think it’s childlike (and hopefully not offensive).
Actually, if i recall, when the strip first ran, someone pointed out (correctly) that they were Internment camps, not concentration camps. But I decided not to change it. I think it’s simply using a more PC word. Cocnentration camps are “a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities,” which from all i read is accurate. It is true, part of the definition is, “sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.” They weren’t held for mass executions like in Germany, although I am unsure of the forced labor issue.
Anyhow. Doesn’t matter. Bruno called it that, and she is not always 100% accurate.
No offense, but using the identical term for both kinds of camps implies that the treatment of the prisoners at both kinds of camps was identical, which is of course not the case. That’s the kind of thing that people who, well, to be delicate, who question the established facts of either scenario tend to jump on. Just something to keep in mind.
Huh. That’s a really good point. Thank you. :)
Then again, concentration camps were first introduced in the Boer war (by the UK occupying force), so the more famous example shouldn’t be treated as the canonical one. It’s just more famous than various others that were less horrific (but still Not A Good Thing).