It’s not as bad as a death camp: the real Alcatraz by itself was bad enough, so “Alligator Alcatraz” is an appropriate name. Indeed, since the Trump administration named it that, whilst they are abhorrent they are honest in their abhorrence: they are not pretending they care, unlike half of radical centrists (H. Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura supporters) and all of the white moderate New Democrats.
At what point does cruelty become atrocity?
It’s not as bad as a death camp: the real Alcatraz by itself was bad enough, so “Alligator Alcatraz” is an appropriate name. Indeed, since the Trump administration named it that, whilst they are abhorrent they are honest in their abhorrence: they are not pretending they care, unlike half of radical centrists (H. Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura supporters) and all of the white moderate New Democrats.
A lesser hell is still hell.
The metaphor isn’t about measuring horror—it’s about recognizing patterns before they recalcify. That’s the only way to stop the next repetition.
Call it swamp, cellblock, or camp—history remembers only the silence that let it stand.
Evil doesn’t need to lie when indifference keeps the books.📚
It calcified when intersectional oppression began with European settlement.
**Recalcify. Many apologies. Precision matters when we’re writing history in real time. 🥀