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George Takei: At least during my internment, I was not taken from my parents
CNN ^ | June 19, 2018 | Jennifer Hansler

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Japan; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; georgetakei; hollywood; internment; internmentcamp; internmentcamps; takei; usefulidiots; worldwar2; ww2
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What a ridiculous comparison! What part of illegal doesn't the left understand?
1 posted on 06/19/2018 2:58:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

At least my grandpa had that crust of bread that time in Buchenwald. The Nazis weren’t mean like Trump.


2 posted on 06/19/2018 2:59:13 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

Wasn’t he r*ped by some homo whilst held?


3 posted on 06/19/2018 2:59:32 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: EdnaMode

Hey, George, look up what your people did to Americans living in Japan at that time.


4 posted on 06/19/2018 3:00:57 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: EdnaMode

He should’ve been, then maybe he wouldn’t have chosen to become a Fudge Packer.


5 posted on 06/19/2018 3:01:00 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: EdnaMode

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.


6 posted on 06/19/2018 3:01:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: EdnaMode

During the Obama administration the children were being handed off to Human Traffickers. Don’t forget that.


7 posted on 06/19/2018 3:01:37 PM PDT by Revel
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To: EdnaMode

So now Mr. Sulu is weighing in? Is everyone who was ever in the public eye going to weigh in????


8 posted on 06/19/2018 3:01:55 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: EdnaMode

Shouldn’t there be some man that this idiot should be sexually harassing right now


9 posted on 06/19/2018 3:02:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EdnaMode

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’ ...


10 posted on 06/19/2018 3:02:48 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: EdnaMode

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.


11 posted on 06/19/2018 3:03:00 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: EdnaMode

Didn’t he do a Harvey Weinstein to another guy?


12 posted on 06/19/2018 3:03:15 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: EdnaMode

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.


13 posted on 06/19/2018 3:03:55 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: EdnaMode

14 posted on 06/19/2018 3:04:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Yaelle

How many of these celebrities are just mad their pizza deliveries came to a stop?


15 posted on 06/19/2018 3:04:24 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: EdnaMode

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.


16 posted on 06/19/2018 3:04:52 PM PDT by databoss
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To: EdnaMode

So he is proposing camps to house the illegal kids and parents? Done!


17 posted on 06/19/2018 3:06:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: EdnaMode

Yeah, and the democrats did that one, too.


18 posted on 06/19/2018 3:07:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: EdnaMode

George is comparing apples to anuses. Typical.


19 posted on 06/19/2018 3:08:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

You should have been you pervert.


20 posted on 06/19/2018 3:08:45 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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