Posted on 07/20/2019 2:58:28 PM PDT by DFG
So in the middle of the media firestorm featuring President Trump and his battle with four progressive Democrat freshman members in the House calling themselves “The Squad” — a whirlwind of stories over racism and anti-Semitism — The Washington Post ran a big story on none other than George Takei.
Mr. Takei, of course, is famous for his role in the original Star Trek series as Hikaru Sulu, the helmsman of the starship USS Enterprise. He is now 82, described by the Post as an “activist for gay rights and social justice.”
Takei is also the author of a new book, They Called Us Enemy. The book tells the story of Takei’s childhood when he, along with his parents and two siblings, were rounded up and - literally at the point of bayonets - sent to one of the ten now-infamous internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
What makes the Post story so amazing is that, right in the middle of a national brouhaha over racism, the left-wing paper publishes a lengthy story that conveniently leaves out two central facts — the who and why — of Takei’s story. Those two facts would be central fact to the history of Takei’s story.
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Regarding Democrat FDR’s internment of Americans of Japanese descent, the truth of that issue is much more complex than most understand. This book tells a lot of history that has been suppressed. Highly recommended:
Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
It doesn’t overwhelmingly justify what happened. It does make the whole issue much more debatable given the situation of the time. Which is that we had a large population of people of very questionable loyalty, and knew it and had proof of their activities.
Who cares what Takei faggie thinks?
It’s too late now, but I wonder if he interviewed any survivors of the Bataan Death March.
There are many historical omissions and revisionist history told about various subjects.
For example, it was a REPUBLICAN president, Eisenhower, who sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce a court order for school desegregation. An “evil Republican”, a member of the allegedly racist Republican party, took that action .
And to check the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, proportionally more Republicans than Democrats voted for that legislation. Yet Democrats today call Republicans racist and worse, yet the history shows us that Republicans were key people in the coalition to pass civil rights legislation.
Also lost to history, is the key role played by REPUBLICAN Senator Everett Dirksen, in breaking the filibuster on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and helping get that bill passed into law.
It’s painful to hear these imbecile liberals, both politicians and allegedly knowledgeable “talking heads” on cable news channels, who mindless parrot back talking points that the Republicans are a racist bigoted group, etc. when the history shows that this is not the case.
I have no problem with what Roosevelt did. They started the war and got exactly what was coming to them.
Carter rounded up 1000’s of Iranians in the 70’s when the “students” in Iran took over our Embassy and held it for over 400 days while that f’n peanut farmer sat around with his thumb up his ass. The only good thing he did was ship the Iranians back home. I thought we should have locked all of them up until our Embassy was released.
If we were attacked by a foreign power I would do what Roosevelt did in a heartbeat.
I'm sick and tired of revisionists, trying to apply today's standards to things that were done in the past. It is a concerted effort to bring us to "Year Zero", which is precisely what the Khmer Rouge did.
I hear you but the revisionist crap only works on the uninformed.
I suppose there are plenty of the fools around though,right?
And today a majority of this country knows jack squat about our history, thanks to our terrible education system.
The Japanese, including American citizens, were NOT sent to camps “because of their skin color” as the article repeatedly states.
From an article by one of Warren's USSC law clerks:
In 1942 he called the presence of the Japanese in California “the Achilles’ heel of the entire civilian defense effort.” He also argued that because no fifth-column activities and no sabotage had been reported a “studied effort” at sabotage was taking place. Warren felt that “when we are dealing with the Caucasian race we have methods that will test [their] loyalty,” but “when we deal with the Japanese we are in an entirely different field” because of “their method of living.”
Just about every closet has its skeletons. But an article criticizing convenient omissions should police its own yard first. Is the writer aware of this "enlightened" sentiment by a Republican contemporary of FDR?
This is all designed to insure that we don’t round up Muzzies when Islamic countries attack us, even though we know that very few of them won’t Jihad.
Fair enough, but it was liberal DEMOCRAT FDR that put them there.
In his autobiography, Takei talks about how his dad was a leader in the camps, stoically accepting their fate, and making the best of their situation.
Then he goes on to talk about how he got interested in politics during the 1952 election and how his dad enthusiastically supported Adlai Stevenson.
That's right. Georgie's dad supported the very same party that put his family into internment camps.
I actually asked him (Takei) about this many years ago in some chat room.
He said: "Times change, and parties change, stay well, friend."
WTF?
We're talking about seven years after this happened to George, and his family is pulling the "parties switched sides" nonsense.
No sale Mr. Takei. The 1952 democratic party is just as racist, if not more so in 2019.
Magic sits in my to be read stack. I CAN recommend Michelle Malkin’s In Defence of Internment which does justify it. IMHO Reagan’s greatest mistake was apologizing for it.
Actually the DIMocRATS Party is “full to running over” with ANTI-SEMITES & HATERS of religion & therefore even WORSE than they were years ago. = Only their “public utterances” are different but the SAME hatreds/prejudices remain in reality.
Their obvious hates make me wonder WHY any religious Jews or Roman Catholics still support the DIMocRATS.
Yours, TMN78247
Mysteriously a very central fact is omitted entirely. Who, exactly, was running the U.S. government? Who was responsible for this “legalized racism” This central truth of history —what might be called, to borrow from the Post headline, a “shameful legacy” — was omitted by the Post, not by George Takei. That is clear when one goes to Amazon and checks the description of his book as provided by his publisher. That description reads this way, bold print supplied:
“In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
Without looking at the link, I’m going to guess they conveniently forgot to mention the fact that the interment was ordered by a democrat president.
Takei does his best “thinking” with his mouth full.
I think you’ll like it. There are lots of original documents presented, it’s quite impressive. Your blood will boil at how the Congressional hearings were handled, and how the author and his information was ignored in the process.
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