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BaronChocula

(3,092 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 01:42 PM Jul 2

I refuse to call it Alligator Alcatraz [View all]

I'll call it Florida Death Camp or trump's torture center, something like that, but giving it a cute name only further desensitizes people who are already disembodied from the harsh realities of what's going on. Innocent people are going to die there.

It gives me the clenches when I see articles use this little nickname in their headlines.

It was apparently coined by Florida's Republican AG so you know the name is awash in sadism.

“We had a request from the federal government to do it, and so ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ it is,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference last week, adopting the nickname coined by his attorney general for the Everglades facility.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/what-is-alligator-alcatraz-florida
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