You're quite right there
And Guantanamo is not a gulag. You work at a library. There should be plenty of reference materials there detailing the horror of the Soviet gulags. Do you condone Amnesty International using language like this? Does the qualifer "of our times" somehow let them off the hook?
Hmmmmm, this could really work. Abortion is "the Holocaust of our times". Yes, let's just belittle and mock the real victims of man's inhumanity to man from the darkest moments of the 20th century to score cheap rhetorical points against the US and be hip with ANSWER.