Auschwitz Memorial responds to MSNBC host Chris Hayes over comments on concentration camps

The official Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account responded to MSNBC host Chris Hayes after he commented on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) controversial comments that detention centers housing migrants are “exactly” like concentration camps.

Hayes tweeted throughout the day Tuesday about the freshman lawmaker’s comments. Tuesday morning, he responded to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who slammed Ocasio-Cortez for “demeaning the memory” of the Jews who died in the Holocaust and telling her to learn “some actual history.”

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Hayes argued, “If you spend a few minutes learning some actual history, you will find out that concentration camps are different from death camps and have a history that both predates and extends far past the Nazis.”

If you spend a few minutes learning some actual history, you will find out that concentration camps are different from death camps and have a history that both predates and extends far past the Nazis. https://t.co/Bccy3SaXW0

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 18, 2019

In response, the memorial tweeted, “@chrislhayes Please consider following @AuschwitzMuseum where everyday we commemorate and educate about the tragic human history of #Auschwitz.”

@chrislhayes Please consider following @AuschwitzMuseum where everyday we commemorate and educate about the tragic human history of #Auschwitz.

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) June 18, 2019

Hayes continued to Tweet about the controversy Tuesday, saying, “Last comment on this: ‘concentration camp’ is an extremely charged term and I get why many people are, in good faith, uncomfortable with its application for Godwin’s Law purposes among others. So let’s just call them ‘detention camps’ and focus on what’s happening in them.”

Last comment on this: “concentration camp” is an extremely charged term and I get why many people are, in good faith, uncomfortable with its application for Godwin’s Law purposes among others. So let’s just call them “detention camps” and focus on what’s happening in them.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 18, 2019

“I probably deserve the ratio but whatever the hell you call them we should be closing them. There is absolutely no reason to be detaining the vast, overwhelming majority of these people. It’s unconscionable,” Hayes continued.

I probably deserve the ratio but whatever the hell you call them we should be closing them. There is absolutely no reason to be detaining the vast, overwhelming majority of these people. It’s unconscionable.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 18, 2019