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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by dragonwriter on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:46PM (#27715229)
Nazi “concentration camps” were not actual concentration camps (a thing which long predates the Nazi camps), they were extermination camps for which “concentration camp” was a minimizing euphemism.

US WWII “internment” and “relocation” centers were actual concentration camps (“relocation center” was itself a euphemism, but “internment” referred to a formal legal distinction impacting treaty obligations.)

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by bambax on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:11PM (#27716930)
Why is this downvoted... It's simply the truth.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by kanzenryu2 on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:18PM (#27717008)
There were only a handful of mass extermination camps. There were tens of thousands of concentration camps. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps....
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by SahAssar on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:58PM (#27715385)
Sure, but I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "concentration camp" without qualifiers to refer to anything else than the nazi concentration camps (or something equivalent).

If someone says that something is "_literally_ a concentration camp" I think that most people will think of ovens and genocide.

Perhaps it's a regional thing, but that is how I interpreted it.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by sombremesa on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:07PM (#27715492)
It's not so much a regional as a political thing. Want it to sound worse? Use concentration camp. Want it to sound better? Use internment camp (or in some cases, re-education facility).
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by michael1999 on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:37PM (#27715869)
Or “Reserve”.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by dragonwriter on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:48PM (#27715964)
Relevant to that, the US WWII internment camps were...placed on land taken from (with disputedly-adequate compensation for the use) reservation land.
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