Chuck Todd Knocks AOC for Doing ‘Tremendous Disservice’ with Concentration Camp Comments
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TODD: “If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our southern border, fine. You will have plenty of company, but be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps because they’re not at all comparable, in the slightest. But here’s what is as upsetting as her comments. Some Democrats have been reluctant to condemn her remarks. They don't want to get criticized on Twitter. Fellow New York congressman Jerry Nadler tweeted in response, 'One of the lessons from the Holocaust is 'Never again.' We fail to learn that lesson when we don't call out such inhumanity right in front of us.' Jerry Nadler surely knows that migrant detainment camps are not the same as concentration camps. So why didn't he just say that? Why are we so sheepish calling out people we agree with politically these days? Obviously this isn't a Democratic Party thing. It’s an even bigger problem on the Republican side of the aisle when it comes to President Trump and the reluctance there. Are we really so ensconced in our political bubbles, liberal versus conservative,that we cannot talk about right versus wrong anymore? Some things are bigger than partisanship. At least they used to be. And in the interim, the crux of what is truly at stake is lost. What is this country going to do about what’s happening at the border in this humanitarian crisis? We will get to that at some point, I guess, after we have this debate. I have no doubt Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cares deeply about what’s happening at the border. But she just did the people there a tremendous disservice by distracting from their plight. She said she didn’t use those words lightly. Well, neither did I."
