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Merde in France recently pointed at a strange inflation of semantics here in France, when Guantanamo Bay was called a "new death camp".This kind of linguistic fraud had been so trite since the first Bush=Hitler sign, that I didn't even bother to follow the link provided by Merde in France, considering that I don't have time to lose with people who believe they can call anything by any name as far as it helps building a catchy sentence.
Therefore, I don't really know the context and the reasons why a terminology related to the specificity of the Shoah was so irrationally used, and to be honest, I don't care to know.
That said, judging by the title of Merde in France's English post ("Revisionism Inc.") I just hope it wasn't with the intent of denying the peculiarity of the Holocaust, a French specialty if there was any.
Words do have a specific meaning and -- oddly enough but that's how it is -- most words aren't suited for just about anything, unless you're some kind of boring subsidized post-modernist French poet.
Articulate language is so cool.
Anyway, having still in mind this Merde in France post about the Creepy Gizmo from Neo-Nazi American Hell, I noticed with a good-natured smile (and thanks to the Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal) an interesting fact about Guantanamo's... Err, "fellow guests", and the new pair of jeans that the American tax payer had to offer to 19 former prisoners who are returning to Afghanistan with a brand new Koran and an average extra weight of 13 pounds they gained over 14 months of detention (yeah, hence the new pair of jeans).
Almost one pound per each month.
My good-natured smile was therefore caused by the following thought: if Guantanamo Bay is a "new death camp" then America is not only the first country in history making and winning a war with almost no killings and almost no destructions (in half the time that's needed to fulfill half of the administrative requirements to hire an employee in France), but she's also running a "death camp" from which the "deported" come out, not only alive but also better fed than when they entered.
And with a brand new pair of jeans.
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