WOW. SO, WHAT all happened last week? Well, former vice president and presidential hopeful Joe Biden can't seem toget out of his own way, and people are starting to wonder if smartphones give you horns. So there's that. Also, Roy Moore, is inexplicably back in politics. Meanwhile, Slack went public; Radiohead's Thom Yorke is making musicals now; the Senate surprisingly voted to block President Trump's attempts to sell arms to Saudi Arabia; the US team is still dominating the Women's World Cup; and the NBA Draft happened. Really, it's been quite the week. While You Were Offline is here to catch you up on the rest.
Semantic Disputes
What Happened: There are detention centers inside the US for immigrants the current administration has deemed unwanted, but apparently calling them concentration camps publicly upsets a lot of people, even though experts on concentration camps stand behind the usage of the term.
What Really Happened: That the US treatment of immigrants has become increasingly inhumane over the past few years is, sadly, no surprise. On Monday, President Trump announced a new plan of mass arrests by ICE, and there are currently large detention centers of immigrants along the border, wheremultiple detainees have died. If that sounds like a concentration camp to you, you're not alone; one historian, who literally wrote the book on the history of concentration camps, agrees, and her agreement is where our story starts. It was, after all, noticed by congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,