Don’t Call Them Concentration Camps
April 4th, 2026 Barry Posted in Becky Hawkins collaborations, Immigration | No Comments »
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. All of them show two men in suit and tie, talking at an outdoor cafe. One man is a redhead with a mustache; the other is a clean-shaven blonde.
PANEL 1
REDHEAD: And the conditions in the concentration camps we’ve built are appalling! I’m ashamed for my country!
BLONDE: Whoa! “Concentration camps”? Really?
PANEL 2
A shot of the blonde man, lecturing.
BLONDE: The camps can be criticized but calling them “concentration camps” is inflammatory. It’s something people say for the shock value.
PANEL 3
The blonde man looks angry.
BLONDE: Frankly, calling them “concentration camps” demeans the memory of the victims of the real historic concentration camps!
PANEL 4
The “camera” pulls back, and we see that this is a scene from 1930s Germany. (Storefront signs are in German, there’s a horse and carriage going past, women in 1930s fashions and hats.) The blonde man has angrily stood up, and we can see he wears a swastika on his sleeve (as does another man in the foreground).
BLONDE: And finally – never say you’re ashamed to be German. It’s like our new chancellor Hitler says – we’re making Germany great again!
(No chicken fat in this one!)
