What is your definition of "concentration camps"?
Migrant detention centers and prisons were a focus within the "build back better" set of legislature and the ICE raids and campus crackdowns I'm assuming you are referencing are a continuation of the Biden administration's crackdown from well over a year ago.
If you're just referencing Guantanamo bay as a migrant detention center then every president since 1974 has been guilty of concentration camps.
So your plan for resistance within this scenario is to do what exactly? If the opposition is going to false flag violence like you are predicting here then doesn't that mean the only option for "harm reduction" would be to preemptively direct that violence towards said brown shirts?
Nobody but you is saying "just give up" you're mischarachterizing others by adding that on there.
Protests can work, but they work via disobedience, inflicting other harms to those with power and (most importantly) threatening violence if things do not change. Anything that doesn't do all 3 of those things isn't a protest, it's a parade.
Parades can build community, but pretending parades are inherently some sort of engine of social progress is insane.
That's an incredibly whitewashed history you're going off of. It's not your fault, that's (very intentionally) the version of history that is taught within the US school system, but it is wildly inaccurate.
You're correct that the women's suffrage movement began in the early 19th century, but the 19th amendment didn't get passed until the early 20th century. It was a century (and arguably still counting) of men not just going “tut, tut, darling…” but using extreme violence, murder and sexual assault to try and supress any sort of equality. It took WW1 (and cross-pollinating with other global suffrage movements), a shift to a "deeds not words" approach, militant self defense and don't forget the women's suffrage and prohibition movements were tightly linked within the US (the 18th amendment passing just 2 years prior). Good luck characterizing the prohibition movement as any form of "nonviolent".
The "60s and 70s were rife with protests that made a difference, and they were peaceful" is a real nasty piece of, very intentional, amplification/veneration of MLK and deamplification/villification of everyone else. That's not to say he was ineffective, but the carrot doesn't work without there also being a stick.
If you're instead referencing the hippy movement, then even a cursory glance should be enough to realize those were not effective tactics and not anything you want to emulate...
If your focus is on the 60s-70s I highly recommend reading Kwame Ture's "black power" speech
Friends you can't disagree with and work together to come to a mutual understanding with are superficial friendships.
I'm sorry if I came on too strong, but I appreciate your initial response as It clarifies more where you're coming from.
I don't disagree that "doomerism" exists and can be a problem, however that term is often used (and from my perspective is being used in this context) to deflect from the material reality in a "rub some dirt on it, it ain't that bad" sort of way.
However, within this context the "alternative" isn't complicated. The kids, and teachers, need therapy from trained medical professionals. More broadly they need access to healthcare and resources they aren't getting.
This comment here is a prime example of not having issues with any of the actual problematic aspects and is instead entirely fueled by "fear of the other".
The #1 priority of any state is maintaining their power. I apologize for the highly reductionist argument but:
Within the USA the private sector is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has "systematic ways" that it "interferes" with what it's supposed to be a "democratic" state. Sure there's a couple hundred oligarchs who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.
Within China the CCP is, de facto, the super-executive branch of the state. It has "systematic ways" that it "interferes" with what it's supposed to be a "democratic" state. Sure there's a couple hundred general committee members who all have competing ideas and visions but they, generally, understand that #1 rule.
Within the USA any attempts at pulling power out of the "private sector" is a direct threat and any ideas around a "strong public sector" are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.
Within China any attempts at pulling power out of the "public sector" is a direct threat and any ideas around a "strong private sector" are a direct threat which is meet with propaganda, repression and violence.
If your argument is honestly one against repression then stop spreading USA propaganda. Everyone knows that's how the CCP works. If you're going to convince anybody you need to evaluate and explain why it works that way and why it's a "problem".
As an example, the Jack Ma example is a particularly salient one as it would be, imo, comparable to Elon Musk being disappeared not long after floating the idea of DOGE. However your attempt to invoke comparisons to protest movements in the US; IE Fred Hampton, the Furgeson 6, 2020 disappearances, Columbia U ICE raids etc. feels disingenuous to me. Could you expand on that?
"As more students come to school traumatized by living through fires, floods, and other extreme weather, teachers are being asked to do more than educate — they’re also acting as untrained therapists."
"Doomerism" isn't the issue. The issue is that kids are living through real shit and realizing that the adults around them are unable/unwilling to help/protect them when it's needed. Your suggestion to fight "doomerism" is going to appear as a continuation of that and break any remaining trust even further.
Hope can be a useful tool, but within the context of American schools it's more often a tool for gaslighting and control than meaningful change.
Y'all look at the date... This tool isn't standing up for anyone or anything, he's doing an elaborate April fools joke
The context for the DEFUSE program is that SARS-cov-1 was of pretty significant concern that it could mutate into a global pandemic similar to the Cov-2 pandemic that actually happened. The program was funded to investigate, learn and prepare for what were predicted to be some of the more dangerous possible mutations.
The "smoking gun" here is all correlation. Saying "they predicted correctly what was dangerous and were proactively studying it" is not a good argument for causation.
However, the theory that I haven't seen well debunked/studied is that improper handling/disposal of dead viruses/plasmids/etc. increased the risk of/allowed for recombinants with the endemic Cov strain resulting in those mutations of greatest concern... Have you come across anything on that?
By that definition the Nazi death camps weren't concentration camps, nor is anything Trump or Biden having done "concentration camps".
A 5 minute hearing within a detention center does allow for an appeal, and is used by those with enough wealth/privilege/etc. However I suspect that isn't what you meant, can you expand on that definition?
Edit: I realized there was also another interpretation which is that all jails, detention centers, police vehicles, etc. are concentration camps.