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True, but it would be intellectually dishonest of you to imply they were equivalent in terms of horror or infamy.
Which it very much seems like you're doing.
The term originated here. We called the ones in Germany Death Camps.
The only reason they aren't as infamous is that we did it earlier, so there aren't pictures and movies documenting the atrocities we committed against the natives, Mexicans, Canadians, and whomever else gets in our way.
I still reject your assertion that the holocaust wasn't worse than the Trail of Tears.
The term originated with the Spanish in Cuba.
what
There absolutely are?
American use of concentration camps doesn't come into play until the Philippines and then Japanese-American internment in WW2, and both are well-documented. And prior atrocities against the Native Americans also have plentiful pictorial evidence.
There are plenty of photographs of stuff we did against the natives, sure. I don't believe for two seconds that the average high school educated American has ever seen them. We don't go out of our way to teach that shit.
Thanks for the clarification about the Spanish doing it earlier than we did.
I suspect it very much depends on your era and region of schooling. I was not exactly attending a top school or in top classes, and the most infamous atrocities of the Indian Wars were covered in US History in high school. But I was in a blue state.
That is certainly probable. I wouldn't expect the highschools in IN to have a particularly progressive curriculum