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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What makes the Post story so amazing is that the left-wing paper publishes a lengthy story that conveniently leaves out two central facts — the who and why — of Takei’s story.
“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.
The gummint may not round up the raggies when the jihad starts, but I’ll bet hunting season gets a lot more interesting.
“Which is that we had a large population of people of very questionable loyalty, and knew it and had proof of their activities.”
In Hawaii they tell you in no uncertain terms that there was never a sabotage attack by a person of Japanese origin there.
It wasn’t until I got home that I found out that some US Japanese were still aiding the Japs, by spying on our military.
You need to educate yourself on who really started the war between the U.S. and Japan. A good start would be John Toland's two volume set entitled, "The Rising Sun". They are considered by scholars to be the definitive book on the origins of that war.
Hint. Pearl Harbor was not the beginning of the war as our children were taught and still are taught. One has to go back to the U.S. intervention in the Japanese-China war on mainland China in the late 1930's to understand the real origins of that war.
Next, you should study the undeclared (but real) economic war the U.S. initiated against Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. We attempted to strangle Japans economic and military capabilities by cutting off their strategic sources of petroleum, steel and other vital materials.
Japan only reacted to our aggressive strangulation of their economy and empire. They fought a defensive war in reaction to U.S. actions.
Japanese-Americans did not start the war. They were simply victims of it. Many Japanese-Americans fought on our side in Europe.
Please learn the facts rather than spout misinformation, even though the majority of Americans believe the same untruths as you. Vast multitudes of uninformed or misinformed people do not create truth.
Gilbert Gottfried Roasts George Takei at the Friars Club
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wsrky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSqEP97hJEA
Got it was Amercas fault and Japanese defending itself got Germany to join them because they were buds and hey, as long as we’re gonna defend ourselves against the Americans why don’t we simply take over the word........right?
In war, the Victor writes the history,and we won.
Btw, you’re nuts.
I worked with a person of Japanese descent who was among those who were rounded up and interred. He had no regrets and no complaints about his treatment.
There were spies among those who were interred. The Japanese spies were neutralized as a result. But no one talks about that, or even mentions it. They want you to foolishly believe our leaders were nothing but bigots and racists.
Perhaps the critics of the policy are the real racists.
Hello? It WASN'T because of the color of their skin. I hate it when so-called conservative writers use the rancid racist tropes of the left. It was ostensibly because of their possible ties to their fatherland, which had attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
‘Forgotten’ are the Italians & Germans sent to US internment camps in WWII....
Also, how many Japanese lives were saved by them not being subjected to every day Americans who were losing friends and families?
sad-but true- the typical Japanese in America couldn’t just blend in like the millions of Italians and Germans.
Ask the ‘actor’ how many Americans were allowed to wander the streets of Tokyo etc in the WWII era.
Remember a few years back ‘they’ implied that the only reason Japan received the ABomb is that they were ‘different’.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Change of pace....have been watching a few old ‘newspaper’ type movies on TCM recently and one would be surprised how often the word ‘accountability, libel and get it right’ were raised back when they had ‘editors’.
Kinda like we are doing with Iran.
History is repeating itself.
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