Replies to post #453364 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

I didn't mention NYC, just Manhattan. It's a little (a lot) less dense in the other boroughs, which is why I didn't include them. I'm not saying it's not dense just that people have shown they can work with density and I'm unclear why population density is so often an issue used about Gaza.

You can call it nit picking or you can call it dealing with facts. I haven't noticed the population density of Manhattan negatively impacting peoples' lives there, per se. Sure, maybe looking for parking places on the street or getting into the latest trendy restaurants but otherwise not so much. And if you take Central Park and a bunch of lesser parks into consideration, the population should be thought of as even denser.

As for the map thing, you posted that map of Israel's expansion throughout the years, I responded to that, and now you're writing that I started that whole discussion?

[sortagreen]

Gaza is a concentration camp. Cue the outrage, but despite the connotations, Gaza fits the literal definition...

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con·cen·tra·tion camp
/?käns?n'traSH(?)n ?kamp/
noun
noun: concentration camp; plural noun: concentration camps

a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.