Posted on 06/19/2018 2:58:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Actor George Takei argued that "in one core, horrifying way," the family separations occurring at the United States' southern border are "worse" than the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
"At least during the internment, when I was just 5 years old, I was not taken from my parents," he wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine that was published Tuesday. Takei, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry who was detained with his family at camps in Arkansas and California, wrote that there was a "hideous irony" in the comparison.
"At least during the internment, my parents were able to place themselves between the horror of what we were facing and my own childish understanding of our circumstances," Takei wrote, describing the ways his family protected him from "the grim reality" of their circumstances.
"At least during the internment, we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul," he continued. "I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected."
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At least my grandpa had that crust of bread that time in Buchenwald. The Nazis weren’t mean like Trump.
Wasn’t he r*ped by some homo whilst held?
Hey, George, look up what your people did to Americans living in Japan at that time.
He should’ve been, then maybe he wouldn’t have chosen to become a Fudge Packer.
The last Japanese cables to their embassies and consulates in the USA addressed attack on the US defense industrial base, drawing on overseas Japanese.
The FBI could say nothing, since the breaking of the Japanese code was highly secret.
During the Obama administration the children were being handed off to Human Traffickers. Don’t forget that.
So now Mr. Sulu is weighing in? Is everyone who was ever in the public eye going to weigh in????
Shouldn’t there be some man that this idiot should be sexually harassing right now
Whatever. I’m just here to post my favorite George Takei joke....
Giraldo insults George Takei. Giraldo: “I know it couldn’t be easy being a gay Japanese man in the 50s. It had to be almost impossible to pronounce ‘glory hole’ ...
Is he comparing a policy instituted by a Democrat President (Roosevelt) to one instituted by another Democrat President (Obama)? What’s not to like? Oh , that’s right, they like to blame Republicans for both. Those, and the Democrat-championed institution of slavery.
I see a pattern emerging. Create a mess, blame someone else, repeat.
Didn’t he do a Harvey Weinstein to another guy?
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/14_9_19_media_coverage_of_family_detention.pdf
Eat it, Takei. We’ve already danced to this manufactured hysteria.
How many of these celebrities are just mad their pizza deliveries came to a stop?
Count your blessings Sulu, what if you were living in Nazi Germany and the Japanese attacked them? You would have been dust in a few weeks.
So he is proposing camps to house the illegal kids and parents? Done!
Yeah, and the democrats did that one, too.
George is comparing apples to anuses. Typical.
You should have been you pervert.
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