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Speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper, a Minneapolis bookstore owner compared deportation centers with Nazi concentration camps, and went as far as to claim, “I’m not saying they are putting people in ovens — yet.”

Jamie Schwesnedl, owner of Moon Palace Books, joined Tapper to discuss the "economic blackout" to protest ICE. The craziest part is not that he said what he said, it’s that it was so extreme that even Tapper appeared physically uncomfortable by it.

According to Schwesnedl, “we can't do business as usual right now anyway because our city has been invaded by masked gunmen kidnapping family members and friends and neighbors of ours to send them to concentration camps. Additionally, there are a lot of businesses in our area that have staff or customers or owners who are afraid to come to work, afraid to come in and shop. People are closing down today, and we felt like it wouldn't be kind or fair for us to stay open. So we're closing in solidarity to help send a message.”

If someone is afraid to come to work because they have broken federal immigration laws, that is nothing more than a personal problem, at best. Additionally, any business that only survives on the cheap labor of illegal aliens does not deserve to be in business.

Tapper then claimed that while he is “not here to defend ICE,” he is “not a big fan of people using the term concentration camp to describe detention camps.”

Schwesnedl backed up his claim by adding that they “take people to Fort Snelling here, which literally was built as a concentration camp. And Alligator Alcatraz, which I think we can all agree is a concentration camp. Not saying they're Dachau, I'm not saying they're putting people in ovens — yet. But these are concentration camps.”

What the conversation was supposed to focus on is the “economic blackout” in Minneapolis. Allegedly, this meant “Hundreds of Minnesota businesses kept their doors shut, thousands of workers went on general strike and many residents refused to shop, dine out or go to school on Friday in an effort to protest the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and beyond,” according to Yahoo News.

Why Schwesnedl tried to correlate that with concentration camps is beyond reason.

Firstly, an “economic blackout” is stupid because the majority of the sane population doesn't care about those things. They will dine and shop where they please, despite what laws are being enforced in this country. Secondly, this will do nothing to prove anything, as laws are not dependent on the economy. Thirdly, if people like Schwesnedl wish to close down their business to prove a point, which is extremely lacking, the only ones hurt are he and his employees.

Additionally, correlating Nazi death camps to enforcing immigration laws is deeply deranged and an incentive move. Not only will no one take that statement seriously, as the whole “Trump=Hitler” rhetoric is deeply overplayed, but people don't like it when you correlate genuine human strategies to a nothing burger.

Concentration camps were used to kill a certain group of people for evil reasons. ICE detention centers are intended to deport people back to their home country after they broke federal immigration laws. The two are not the same, and it’s insane that people like him think he was onto something with that comparison.

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