For every body heading into the comments here is some back round of Concentration camp defanition.
concentration camp:
1. A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.
2. A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
Yet he's dating a white guy. Getting buttfucked, literally, on a daily basis by his oppressor and liking it. Probably the most upfront evidence of stockholm syndrome I've ever seen
@Lynviking "[People] hotly deny that there are concentration camps. Apparently that is a term to be used only if the guards speak German and carry a whip as well as a rifle." - Norman Thomas, 1942
"They were concentration camps. They called it relocation but they put them in concentration camps, and I was against it. We were in a period of emergency, but it was still the wrong thing to do." - Pres. Harry Truman, 1961
Do you have any independent thought on the matter or, do you only resort to posting the opinions of others? My grandmother was at Manzanar from Jun 1942 until Oct of 1945 and my aunt was born there. Her take on it is from a first hand prospective. In fact, the prospective of those who were there, varies greatly from individual to individual. While she had no desire to be relocated, she and my grandfather were not treated poorly.
@Lynviking I just thought you might be swayed more by a President's observations than my own, but of-course I too can see that they were concentration camps. Their purpose was to concentrate a race of people into a location against their will. That's a concentration camp in the literal sense.
"Not treated poorly"? I'd consider being forced into a concentration camp as being "treated poorly".
However, in reality, you weren't there and neither were the presidents you mentioned. So you can only make an assumption. My grandmother was. All I can do is relay what she has told me. What it an atrocity? Yes. Was it a concentration camp? I suppose. However, not in the sense like Treblinka, Dachau, Buchenwald, or Bergen Belsen etc. etc.
@Lynviking It wasn't a concentration camp like Dachau, but that's not what's being discussed. It WAS a concentration camp. A concentration camp doesn't have to be Auschwitz in order to count as a concentration camp. FDR himself referred to them as concentration camps. That's not an assumption, it's a historical fact.
I am glad Mr. Takei shared his experiences in the internment camps. I hope it never happens again, but unfortunately, many people never learn from history.
i feel i must apologize for my country's invention, the concentration camp, although i now i shouldn't it was 100 years ago, times were different, hell the entire basis for our empire was 'gun > spear' but i feel obliged to apologize for my ancestors mistakes and to the people that were were affected
-Concentration camps were first implemented (but similar camps existed long before the earliest example being from the 1600s) by the British empire during the second Boer war in the march of 1900
u could see that japanese still went to schools at the camp under that poor condition. that's why japan and east asia will dominate the world in next century,believe me.
I am sorry you were interned, but at the same time, you need to understand that the Japanese were not the only ones locked up. German Americans were also locked up. I am attempting to show the only video of an internment camp, Crystal City. half Japanese American and half German American. Typer German American Internment into the You Tube search engine
The Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps were victims of WW2. Were the Japanese who slaughtered 30 million people (24 million being Chinese and 22 million being Chinese civilians) victims? No! The Japanese looted, raped, tortured, murdered and experimented on millions. On a much larger scale than Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
@theexpliotedforlife No I have to call you out in your numbers, historians like R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims in China at 3,695,000, and Werner Gruhl at 12,392,000.
Even at your estimate of 23 million it falls short of later dictatorships in China like Mao's Great Leap Forward where an estimated at 30-36 million Chinese deaths by starvation and 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death and 1 to 3 million committed suicide. Total 40+ million Chinese killed by communism.
@seonidh Many historians have different estimates, I believe Chalmers Johnson as I know the full extent of the Japanese chemical and biological warfare, the starvation and disease because of the Japanese Three Alls Policy (which was issued by Hirohito himself, just like how he said the chinese should not be treated or called Prisoners of War, and because of that of the 270'000 Chinese soldiers captured by Japan only 56 survived the War) and the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army in general.
@theexpliotedforlife and you completly miss the point that however disgraceful japanese war crimes were in China, Mao and his gang of thugs murdered, starved or tortured to death 40+ million Chinese. He was worse even by the estimation of Chalmers Johnson (whoes estimate is not universally accepted by historians) and Mao's communist government is still in power. Where is the greater crime?
I am not saying its a good thing, its just a thing. Its what happens, and believe it or not the adversity that one generation suffers through progresses down the line, until that group defines itself, and shows to the rest of the US "Hey asshole, I belong here too!". The Irish did it, the Scotts did it, hell the blacks and mexicans have done it more than once.. the Japanese have done it as well.
@fosterslover True, but we can't let the fear of hurting others hurt our selves. My theory is this, look at America's past. Each new generation, each group that has defined a generation - each group that now proudly calls itself 'American' - has gone had adversity.. the English, Dutch and German settlers who declared independence, the Irish and Scotts who fought in our wars, the blacks, the hispanics, the jews.. the arabs.. the Asians.. none pass the gates of America without paying the toll.
My mother was in an internment camp as a child, so I am very familiar with this history. However, I'm amazed at the number of people who know very little about it. Mr. Takei is dignified in his recollection of a part of our history we should learn about and always remember. Our fears sometimes push us in the direction of forgetting what injustice is.
@jymorrill - Yes, I agree. It irritates me that so many Americans have an arrogant view of America. I'm not saying America is or was all 'bad', but America is not as 'pretty' as people either want to believe or are told to. People complain about Hitler, and I wonder, 'What about the things America has done?' That quote about winners writing history is so accurate: What a prize to gloss over your own faults and look like royalty.
@seonidh Germany was not the catalyst that brought the U.S. into the war. Germany was contained in Europe and fighting losing battles in North Africa and Stalingrad while Japan was pushing across the Pacific and invading the Aleutian Islands (the first invasion of American soil since 1812). Perhaps that, and not racism, had something to do with the unfortunate decision to intern Japanese-Americans instead of German-Americans.
@Wyldephang no the Alien Enemies Act and Presidential Proclamations were issued designating Japanese, German and Italian nationals as enemy aliens. Not American citizens and Italian and German-Americans posed every bit a threat as the Japanese-American which was zero. America had no probable cause to lockup any Japanese American considering these Americans still took the oath of allegance each morning dispite having guns in towers pointed at them. Your starting to sound like DeWitt.
@seonidh Yes, the U.S. was at war with Italy and Germany. And Italian-Americans and German-Americans were persecuted because of it. I never defended the internment program--not one bit--but consider which of the U.S.'s enemies was closer to home in World War II. Many of Roosevelt's advisers even wanted a "Pacific-first" strategy. Like I said, the war with Japan resonated more with the American public. Of course I'm not defending internment. But you posed a question, and I responded.
Well America has moved somewhat on from typecasting the Japanese. Its time to typecast the Muslims for maybe 40 years. Then, who knows? Maybe the Brittish again? Maybe China. Ah choices choices.
It's a credit to George Takei's charisma and speaking ability that he can tell his story with such dignity and pathos while wearing that ugly-ass shirt.
White supremacists? The Japanese were the supremacists and they killed millions of other Asians! These camps weren't nice but considering the anti-Japanese sentiment at the time they were probably the lesser of two evils.
Even though most Japanese people are different today they're still xenophobic and don't like foreigners. They want to keep Japan Japanese, meanwhile it is whites who have had to accept half the world in Europe. Who are the real racists?
@amadeus3x16 Who are the real racists? Everybody, DUH. Identity cannot exist unless you can define other people as not part of you. Everyone's a little bit racist.
Japanese Americans were sent to Internment camps after the U S A entered WW2 .German & Italian Americans were not. Neither were Romanian or Austrian Americans.They didn`t have slanted eyes so they were not considered a "thret" It is obvious this was a racist decision. Pearl Habour was used as an excuse. One in three American Soldiers during WW2 were of either German or Italian decent.Yet another sad piece of American History. Land of the free? What a joke.
@barbenH Agreed 100% it was reprehensible treatment furthermore they new Japanese were coming for pearl and they let it happen as a excuse to drop two nuclear bombs ,same thing with 911 .my point is its still going on.
Are you people trying to look like idots. Almost every American on this video is saying the internment was wrong and shouldn't have happened, yet you still say we're all racist, white supremacists. What kind of observation skills have you learned in life.
Hey, people! The British Empire oppressed my ancestors, but I don't hate the British people, because they can't be held accountable for the injustices committed by their ancestors. You people need to accept that the USA has apologized to the Japanese Americans, and quit bullying our country just because you're insecure.
@UncleFred34 Please, I don't need your pity because unlike you I got over it, and I'm not carrying a grudge against every nation that ever did something wrong.
@GremlinsAndGnomes All Takei said was that the era of internment was a dark chapter in American history, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to say. He did not say that he hated America or any that nonsense that you're implying. You complained about the Japanese 'bullying' our country, which is pure hogwash. People have a right to criticize whatever they choose to. If you want to suppress freedom of speech in order to support your own misguided Nationalism, then you are the bully.
@UncleFred34 Sorry if you misunderstood me. My comment was directed to the people who are trolling about America being a pure, evil, nazi empire. I understand that the internment was a dark chapter on American history and I meant no offense to George.
@greendaydkluver7897 i'd like to point out how ignorant you are by 1. pointing out that you are American and 2. not understanding that all humanity has made horrible decisions in treating each other
WOW i didnt know this guy is that old.. and he has such a great sense of humor.. an experience like this would have made me angry forever and disloyal to this country
@Trucifer but the thing is, the japanese army could charge them with killing their troops, but with this there was no charges that they could possibly use to put them in such a place
@standoffTiger441 im not agreeing with the japanese empire, but it was wrong of the american government to force people against their will to live in a camp. especially when they have done nothing wrong
@rkodavey but it is relevant to your comment which is what i replied to, not the video, please take some time to think before typing your next re-buttal
Given the anti-Japanese sentiment at the time, the concentration camps would seem like a better alternative to being exposed to an angry, patriotic American public, but it's still very bad.
I agree that this was a dark chapter in American History and shouldn't have happened. But how would you have liked to spend a few years in a Japanese POW
camp. That is, if you lived long enough to make it a few years.
Similar thing happened in Tanzania (formerly German East Africa) at the outbreak of WW2. Ordinary civilians were rounded up just because they happened to be German.
I don't think it's fair to call these places "concentration camps", though. As far as I am aware, there were no gas chambers which people were forced into under the guise that they needed to shower and no equivalent of Dr Mengele to carry out gruesome experiments on the camp inmates.
That's not what a concentration camp is. A concentration camp is just a camp constructed for the relocation of any particular group (hence they are "concentrated" there)
Concentration camp =/= labour camp =/= death camp necessarily
@carygoleman Historically, a "concentration camp" could simply mean a place of internment, yes. However, nowadays the term has more or less become synonymous with notorious Nazi camps such as Auschwitz. You'd offend a lot of people if you described a British POW camp (where Germans were actually treated reasonably well) as a concentration camp.
Interestingly, in German you can also make a distinction. A friend of mine once referred to Dachau as an "Arbeitslager" (Labour camp) rather than a "KZ".
@friedmahooga Regardless of euphemisms, it was as much of a concentration camp, and built for the same reasons, as the concentration camps the British built during the Boer War. They're different from POW camps. Those are for captured enemy soldiers.
Sing Sing wasn't as bad as Alcatraz, but it was still a prison, and calling it a correctional facility doesn't change its basic nature.
@Hikikomori013 See other post. Historically the term "concentration camp" was itself a euphemism and could have referred to simple internment camps. Nowadays, the average person (who is unlikely to have much knowledge of the 2nd Boer War) would, however, associate it with somewhere like Auschwitz - officially a "Vernichtungslager" (extermination camp), but nobody calls it that.
I'm not saying that the Japanese-American internment wasn't grim, but it certainly doesn't compare to..(cont)...
@Hikikomori013 ....life in Auschwitz, or for that matter, life for detainees in the British concentration camps during the 2nd Boer War, where disease, starvation, overcrowding and poor hygiene killed many.
Perhaps things are different in the States, but for me "prison", is a fairly neutral word without specific connotations to link it to places such as Alcatraz.
But then again, I'm British and nobody in the UK would use the term "Correctional Facility". ;-)
Japanese internment could be considered a contradiction to the founding principals of this country......but I truly believe that things then could've been much worse. What was going on in Germany, Poland, and Stalinist Russia was far worse. The Third Reich committed ethnic cleansing, and Stalin killed & imprisoned people because he felt like it (which could make him worse than Hitler, but that's another debate for another time).
It's all in the past, though. It won't happen again.
@dave55811 It won't so long as people actually stay vigilant and not allow it. And i hope your right... But As for it being impossible, or the idea that it won't happen again, well no offense but that's the epitome of naive. It's like not wearing a seat belt because you already had a car accident last week and know to drive safer now... :)
@D3mang3l Well, okay; you got me there. Things like this are likely still happening in the world, particularly in Africa (at least ethnic cleansing and mass-killings; unsure about concentration camps). I guess when I was speaking about it not happening again, I was speaking in regards to here in the US, though I couldn't fit it all in at once.
The US is STILL on the brink of doing this again at any time. We need to press for change this should never happen again. People need to read the poem the hangman. Because there will come a time when no one is left and the hangman comes for you.
If the United States helps rebuild these Japanese cities, it will mark the first time in history that the USA has rebuilt a flattened city in Japan that it didn't flatten. WOW!!!
when 911 happened a store owned by an indian displayed a picture of himself in sikh dress next to a picture of an arab with turban and beard so the public would not act aggressive towards him. i was ashamed and hurt to have seen this in america,i never wanted to see this in my lifetime.what made me proud was that americans with all kinds of beards started coming to this store to show support.
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Once the guy equated the Jap camps to CONCENTRATION CAMPS, he lost ALL credibility.
All the food you needed or more, beds, education, to stay with your family, and it was over in less than 3 years.
Furthermore, there was a good percentage of these people that were NOT American. Only west coast Japs (about 100,000) were sent.
Interning JAPS that have a history of 100% love for their emperor(-DUH- Japs weren't patriotic Americans, we just A-BOMBED THEM!!!) is not "horrible". It makes sense.
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 concentration camps are not defined by conditions but by intentions. nazi's put jews/poles/politicians in concentration camps because they wanted them out of the way for their own personal prejudices, surely we can say the same about the american concentration camps.
@ozmusic657 You can not compare the two .It was Nazi Party Policy to eradicate all Jews, regardless of nationality Concentration camps were merely holding pens untill they met there fate .Hitlers crusade , some say because his Mother died at the hands of a jewish doctor.
Japs? Wow. Talk about sensitive. Guess nigger and spic are also a part of your vocabulary too. I do suppose you're right though, the Japanese had it better than the blacks who we kept as labor for a hundred years. Or better than the Indians who we mostly exterminated. Now there is a genocide that is far worse than any Nazi crime.
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 i totally agree. I grew up on Pine Ridge in the 70's things have not changed. They were strip searching people in the street. All because 2 FBI's were where they were not suppose to be and got killed after firing on a house full of children.
@avernion Sadly most Americans have no idea this has happened. It's pathetic. Our education simply skips that whole ugly episode as if it didn't even happen. Do your best to pass on this information. The more people who know about it, the less likely it'll happen again.
all sins have to be atoned for. America is now paying for her sins. in more ways than one. a nation in debt. a mongrel nation. a drop out nation. no jobs, no work, no money, nothing but debt and deficits, etc. Karma has come home here. asians and blacks were tortured here.
Read about the subconscious mind. Your god will not save you. You must think positively to fix things yourself. Spread positive messages. Once you are optimistic, you will be able to move forward.
You guys really aren't representing America well when you keep refering to the Japanese as Japs and calling them sub-Human. I'm aware that the Japanese did terrible things during the war, but that doesn't make the Japanese race sub-human.
You all say we are evil for the internment of the Japanese, but I disagree. I admit it was a bad thing to do, but we have already apologized to all the Japanese Americans and told them it was wrong of us to do that and we made payments. We can never make up for all the wrong we do to people but we've done alot. So I don't think the U.S. is evil or racist.
@GremlinsAndGnomes ok they apologized, when do the Native Americans get there so called apology?? When do they let Leonard Pulliter out of jail for a crime he didnt commit?? When do I get to see the face of the FBI agent that cause my great grandfathers death?? No apology in the world can fix somethings.
@peyoteskye71 I'm sure that Native Americans have recieved an apology of some sort. As for Leonard Pulliter, I have no clue who he is, and I have no clue who your great grandfather is. And your right there are some things apologies can never fully compensate for, but holding a grudge isn't going to help anybody, especially when said wrongdoing has already been acknowledged and apologized for.
I agree with all these points that what the Japanese faced in the internment camps was nothing next to the POW camps our soldiers were in, but we have to acknowledge that we did something bad and violated the rights of people who hadn't done anything wrong. The people I'm not sorry about are the POW we got from the Axis and terrorists.
I'm ashamed of the apologists for tyranny express by many in this thread. We learned little from all of the tyrants of history, and little from our many wars. The U.S. people still support more and more wars for less and less cause; and with each new war of aggression, more civil rights are taken from all Americans, as in the Patriot Act just renewed with little public outcry. What indeed is the point of fighting and dying when we end up as unfree as the countries we fought? And bankrupt too
Hey George, get over it. Want some "dark chapters"? How about the ones below commited by your relatives: "The Bataan Death March" of American prisoners by Japanese troops- 6000-11000 American prisoners killed. "The Rape of Nanking" China by Japan. Upwards of 200,000 civilians and unarmed Chinese soldiers raped and murdered. Including beheading contests. And of course the cowardly sneak attack on Pearl Harbor where 2402 Americans where killed by Japanese. Get over it, you're still alive!
@TheCristianalvarez The country did what it thought was the right thing at the time. Dwelling on it does no good and helps nothing. I'm sick of hearing about the poor Japanese who were well fed and treated well when 33 percent of prisoners held by Japanese died of starvation or were brutally murdered. George is just lucky he wasn't in a Japanese camp.
@SoloFilmsOne Grandmothers and mothers did not work at Japanese run POW camps. Brutal military prison guards did. 30 percent of all American prisoners in Japanese POW camps died of starvation or were worked to death. The Americans survived on roughly 600 calories a day. Again, George is just lucky he wasn't in a Japanese run internment camp. If you want something to feel sorry about feel some sorrow for all the American soldiers that were beheaded and bayonetted while held prisoner in Japan.
Concentration comes from the word "Concentrate", which defines as "centralize: make central" and "draw together or meet in one common center"
Many Japanese Americans were forced out of their house to live in these "centeralized, common" camps; so yeah the word "Concentration Camp" is accurate in this use.
@allfouradrenaline We took our frustrations of the war and our loss on Japanese Americans who had NO involvement with Pearl Harbor and other attacks.
We punished them for something they didn't do by forcing them into centralized camps and then treated them as lesser than equal, inhumanly, and like pests rather than human beings.
I know what I'm about to say may sting many "patriotic" Americans, but we treated them the same way Nazi Germany treated Jewish and other minorities but with PC flair
@BlueKewne aboslutely incorrect we gave them food, shelter, clothing, edcation etc. Part of the reason they were relocated was to avoid violence with the people and for the Japanese-American well being. It was a wrongful act on our part but nothing even close to a concentration camp because we gave them food and did not work to death. It was not in anger of the bombings of pearl harbor if it was we would have laid down another Atomic Bomb on the Japanese country right away like we did later on.
@BlueKewne I don't support the internment of the Japanese, but what the government did to them is far from what happened to the Jews. I know that bad things were done to SOME of them,(I mean bad things other then being interned) but we weren't doing a second holocaust.
Is there any Japanese American here? Do you guys believe that the US deserved Pearl Harbor? Do you guys approve what Japan did to other asians during WWII?
So is the Japanese government still unwilling to apologiz for conducting human experiments on captured asian soldiers?
@ttiiyy Consider the facts that Japan first raided an American Naval Post...and the US retaliates by sending two atomic bombs into cities with children, mothers, fathers, neighbors, loves and dreams, as well as Japanese soldiers. Please explain the justification here, the radiation caused by the two bombs still leaves an imprint in the generations of children while the naval blockade after pearl harbor is replaceable.
@leezuh123 Please take into mind that the Japanese killed plenty of children, mothers, and fathers as well. Nobody is a saint when it comes to war. Also consider that had we made a land invasion of Japan, millions would have died on both sides.
@leezuh123 Funny how you talk about killing people with hopes and dreams. I'm sure you couldn't care less about the thousands of children that are killed by abortion each year. They all would've become wives, children, fathers, politicians, cooks, etc, etc, etc. All with their own hopes and dreams.
@thebestreddress Are you kidding me? Right now in Japan, some politicians try to prohibit foreigners from participating in politics. The US is not that racist! Japan is a real racist country! These people don't even trust immigrants' children even if they're born and raised in Japan.
@GremlinsAndGnomes - Part of the UN Charter has been to represent ALL nations without respect to political leanings. It is not the role of the UN to stop communism. It is their role to resolve conflict and address international issues.
@melindatx That doesn't change the fact that on the surface, the UN supports human rights. And they don't really seem to do much with stopping conflict, I'm not even sure if they were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Also all you guys will say that the U.S. government is not guilty for murdering hundreds of thousands more civilians than all those who died in the infamous 9/11? I thought that with all the incidents related to the killings of civilians throughout the Middle East was going to make it clear to all you, that should not be violated human rights by revenge, oil and strategic points against States 'non-grata'. How can you be so stupid to continue kissing the asses of all members of the government?
@Jophie12 Most racist? Were these japs killed in the same way that African Americans were? You are clearly a retard that knows nothing about the American history.
I once argued with a Japanese American, who claimed that the US deserved Pearl Harbor.
There are a lot of far more racist countries around the world. Japan, ironically, is one of them!
@ttiiyy What I find sad about you most is, you cling to the whole black slavery thing like its the only thing we did wrong, that's all I EVER hear about. Japanese people are one of the most ridiculed group of people living here. In fact, all Asians are. Its accepted, and that is very sad. You can rip on an Asian and get away with it, but if you say anything about an "African American" the NAACP, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton start a riot, and most of the time its over NOTHING.
@rrhynes If you're talking about the japanese houses and businesses, it is because the american government, nor the War Relocation Authority, was not in charge of taking care of the houses and businesses. They left these matters up to the Japanese to handle, and of course their only option was to sell their properties to private persons.
@guitain I think that since the government was forcibly removing the Japanese, they should have done something about their porperties and possessions.
@Rico8458 I don't appreciate being refered to as "whites". If we have to give everybody special names based on the continents their ancestors came from, I think that white americans should be called European Americans.
Any patriotic American who thinks the US is gods gift to the world needs to watch this video and realise they've done some horrible things as bad as other atrocities through the world
REST IN PEACE GEORGE TAKEI
nonzshot 6 days ago
For every body heading into the comments here is some back round of Concentration camp defanition.
concentration camp:
1. A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.
2. A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
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Yet he's dating a white guy. Getting buttfucked, literally, on a daily basis by his oppressor and liking it. Probably the most upfront evidence of stockholm syndrome I've ever seen
takadi 1 month ago
What this country did to those people was shameful.
Christheatheist1 1 month ago 5
Internment Camps to me were no different than Concentration Camps
xelanesqueHQ 1 month ago
@xelanesqueHQ and you know this because you were there, right?
Lynviking 1 month ago
@xelanesqueHQ So you obviously know nothing about either of them.
chodiestchode 1 month ago
How can a man talk about concentration camps and sound SO Fabulous?
VisualAural 2 months ago 3
@VisualAural
It wasn't a "concentration camp," in the literal sense
Lynviking 2 months ago
@Lynviking "[People] hotly deny that there are concentration camps. Apparently that is a term to be used only if the guards speak German and carry a whip as well as a rifle." - Norman Thomas, 1942
"They were concentration camps. They called it relocation but they put them in concentration camps, and I was against it. We were in a period of emergency, but it was still the wrong thing to do." - Pres. Harry Truman, 1961
They were concentration camps by definition.
BelleAndTheBoy 1 month ago
@BelleAndTheBoy
Do you have any independent thought on the matter or, do you only resort to posting the opinions of others? My grandmother was at Manzanar from Jun 1942 until Oct of 1945 and my aunt was born there. Her take on it is from a first hand prospective. In fact, the prospective of those who were there, varies greatly from individual to individual. While she had no desire to be relocated, she and my grandfather were not treated poorly.
Lynviking 1 month ago
@Lynviking I just thought you might be swayed more by a President's observations than my own, but of-course I too can see that they were concentration camps. Their purpose was to concentrate a race of people into a location against their will. That's a concentration camp in the literal sense.
"Not treated poorly"? I'd consider being forced into a concentration camp as being "treated poorly".
BelleAndTheBoy 4 weeks ago
@BelleAndTheBoy
However, in reality, you weren't there and neither were the presidents you mentioned. So you can only make an assumption. My grandmother was. All I can do is relay what she has told me. What it an atrocity? Yes. Was it a concentration camp? I suppose. However, not in the sense like Treblinka, Dachau, Buchenwald, or Bergen Belsen etc. etc.
Lynviking 4 weeks ago
@Lynviking It wasn't a concentration camp like Dachau, but that's not what's being discussed. It WAS a concentration camp. A concentration camp doesn't have to be Auschwitz in order to count as a concentration camp. FDR himself referred to them as concentration camps. That's not an assumption, it's a historical fact.
BelleAndTheBoy 4 weeks ago
Takei for president in 2016. Let's start a campaign.
Cwillim 2 months ago
@Cwillim YES! YES! YES!
xelanesqueHQ 1 month ago
I am glad Mr. Takei shared his experiences in the internment camps. I hope it never happens again, but unfortunately, many people never learn from history.
munden1971 2 months ago
George Takei is the shit. I would be absolutely pleased as punch to call him my leader.
purplelobsta 3 months ago
i feel i must apologize for my country's invention, the concentration camp, although i now i shouldn't it was 100 years ago, times were different, hell the entire basis for our empire was 'gun > spear' but i feel obliged to apologize for my ancestors mistakes and to the people that were were affected
-Concentration camps were first implemented (but similar camps existed long before the earliest example being from the 1600s) by the British empire during the second Boer war in the march of 1900
HHaddow990 3 months ago
u could see that japanese still went to schools at the camp under that poor condition. that's why japan and east asia will dominate the world in next century,believe me.
tonylidcombe 4 months ago
Good gracious, all I can focus on is his voice. It's so... amazing.
Malkus11 4 months ago 2
poor guy. persecuted because of his race and sexuality by xenophobic america.
ps3hater221 4 months ago
George Takei for President.
LegendaryGamer0 4 months ago 5
What they did to the Japanese Americans is undefendable. Concentration Camps in the United States containing their own citizens, pretty sick.
diurdi 4 months ago 2
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bogglerful 4 months ago
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as much as i like george, i have a sudden urge to slap that jap
EmptyHero 5 months ago
@EmptyHero As much as i dont Know you I want to unleash a million pedofiles to rape your dumbass!
Although I agree on your opinion about George!
TheWeeklyFaulker 4 months ago
@TheWeeklyFaulker Takei would say the for wishing that on him, you are, and I quote, "a total douchebag."
Malkus11 4 months ago
America is still the land of ignorance and racism.
Jophie12 5 months ago 6
@Jophie12 And the way things have been going its going to stay that way.
Kickylou22 4 months ago
I am sorry you were interned, but at the same time, you need to understand that the Japanese were not the only ones locked up. German Americans were also locked up. I am attempting to show the only video of an internment camp, Crystal City. half Japanese American and half German American. Typer German American Internment into the You Tube search engine
RLSEWARD1 5 months ago
It feels so much real when you know George Takei was affected by it :(
krautvaffen 5 months ago
The Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps were victims of WW2. Were the Japanese who slaughtered 30 million people (24 million being Chinese and 22 million being Chinese civilians) victims? No! The Japanese looted, raped, tortured, murdered and experimented on millions. On a much larger scale than Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
theexpliotedforlife 5 months ago
@theexpliotedforlife No I have to call you out in your numbers, historians like R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims in China at 3,695,000, and Werner Gruhl at 12,392,000.
Even at your estimate of 23 million it falls short of later dictatorships in China like Mao's Great Leap Forward where an estimated at 30-36 million Chinese deaths by starvation and 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death and 1 to 3 million committed suicide. Total 40+ million Chinese killed by communism.
seonidh 5 months ago
@seonidh Many historians have different estimates, I believe Chalmers Johnson as I know the full extent of the Japanese chemical and biological warfare, the starvation and disease because of the Japanese Three Alls Policy (which was issued by Hirohito himself, just like how he said the chinese should not be treated or called Prisoners of War, and because of that of the 270'000 Chinese soldiers captured by Japan only 56 survived the War) and the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army in general.
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@theexpliotedforlife and you completly miss the point that however disgraceful japanese war crimes were in China, Mao and his gang of thugs murdered, starved or tortured to death 40+ million Chinese. He was worse even by the estimation of Chalmers Johnson (whoes estimate is not universally accepted by historians) and Mao's communist government is still in power. Where is the greater crime?
seonidh 5 months ago
I am not saying its a good thing, its just a thing. Its what happens, and believe it or not the adversity that one generation suffers through progresses down the line, until that group defines itself, and shows to the rest of the US "Hey asshole, I belong here too!". The Irish did it, the Scotts did it, hell the blacks and mexicans have done it more than once.. the Japanese have done it as well.
Gwyogurt 6 months ago
You can't change the past; we have to take it upon ourselves to get better and make sure that nothing like this can ever happen again.
fosterslover 6 months ago
@fosterslover True, but we can't let the fear of hurting others hurt our selves. My theory is this, look at America's past. Each new generation, each group that has defined a generation - each group that now proudly calls itself 'American' - has gone had adversity.. the English, Dutch and German settlers who declared independence, the Irish and Scotts who fought in our wars, the blacks, the hispanics, the jews.. the arabs.. the Asians.. none pass the gates of America without paying the toll.
Gwyogurt 6 months ago
My mother was in an internment camp as a child, so I am very familiar with this history. However, I'm amazed at the number of people who know very little about it. Mr. Takei is dignified in his recollection of a part of our history we should learn about and always remember. Our fears sometimes push us in the direction of forgetting what injustice is.
jymorrill 6 months ago 2
@jymorrill - Yes, I agree. It irritates me that so many Americans have an arrogant view of America. I'm not saying America is or was all 'bad', but America is not as 'pretty' as people either want to believe or are told to. People complain about Hitler, and I wonder, 'What about the things America has done?' That quote about winners writing history is so accurate: What a prize to gloss over your own faults and look like royalty.
chibiariel 6 months ago 3
at least the american guards weren't as cruel as the german ss
thejet1345 6 months ago
@thejet1345 true but the americans didnt lock up the German-Americans either was that because they were white?
seonidh 6 months ago
@seonidh Germany was not the catalyst that brought the U.S. into the war. Germany was contained in Europe and fighting losing battles in North Africa and Stalingrad while Japan was pushing across the Pacific and invading the Aleutian Islands (the first invasion of American soil since 1812). Perhaps that, and not racism, had something to do with the unfortunate decision to intern Japanese-Americans instead of German-Americans.
Wyldephang 5 months ago
@Wyldephang no the Alien Enemies Act and Presidential Proclamations were issued designating Japanese, German and Italian nationals as enemy aliens. Not American citizens and Italian and German-Americans posed every bit a threat as the Japanese-American which was zero. America had no probable cause to lockup any Japanese American considering these Americans still took the oath of allegance each morning dispite having guns in towers pointed at them. Your starting to sound like DeWitt.
seonidh 5 months ago
@seonidh Yes, the U.S. was at war with Italy and Germany. And Italian-Americans and German-Americans were persecuted because of it. I never defended the internment program--not one bit--but consider which of the U.S.'s enemies was closer to home in World War II. Many of Roosevelt's advisers even wanted a "Pacific-first" strategy. Like I said, the war with Japan resonated more with the American public. Of course I'm not defending internment. But you posed a question, and I responded.
Wyldephang 5 months ago
@thejet1345 Or the Japanese guards. The Japanese guards were extremely brutal to both Allied prisoners and Asian civillians alike.
theexpliotedforlife 5 months ago
Republicans want to conserve American values but the min we're at war they're quick to throw them away. Japanese yesterday, today its muslims.
johnnameworks 7 months ago 3
Never again.
davidls11 7 months ago
Well America has moved somewhat on from typecasting the Japanese. Its time to typecast the Muslims for maybe 40 years. Then, who knows? Maybe the Brittish again? Maybe China. Ah choices choices.
TempestKiro 7 months ago 35
It's a credit to George Takei's charisma and speaking ability that he can tell his story with such dignity and pathos while wearing that ugly-ass shirt.
TheRandomfanboy 8 months ago 6
White supremacists? The Japanese were the supremacists and they killed millions of other Asians! These camps weren't nice but considering the anti-Japanese sentiment at the time they were probably the lesser of two evils.
Even though most Japanese people are different today they're still xenophobic and don't like foreigners. They want to keep Japan Japanese, meanwhile it is whites who have had to accept half the world in Europe. Who are the real racists?
amadeus3x16 8 months ago
@amadeus3x16 Who are the real racists? Everybody, DUH. Identity cannot exist unless you can define other people as not part of you. Everyone's a little bit racist.
HaoWenXiang 8 months ago
Japanese Americans were sent to Internment camps after the U S A entered WW2 .German & Italian Americans were not. Neither were Romanian or Austrian Americans.They didn`t have slanted eyes so they were not considered a "thret" It is obvious this was a racist decision. Pearl Habour was used as an excuse. One in three American Soldiers during WW2 were of either German or Italian decent.Yet another sad piece of American History. Land of the free? What a joke.
barbenH 8 months ago
@barbenH Agreed 100% it was reprehensible treatment furthermore they new Japanese were coming for pearl and they let it happen as a excuse to drop two nuclear bombs ,same thing with 911 .my point is its still going on.
FrankaDith 8 months ago
Are you people trying to look like idots. Almost every American on this video is saying the internment was wrong and shouldn't have happened, yet you still say we're all racist, white supremacists. What kind of observation skills have you learned in life.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
Japan still hasn't apologized to China for Nanking.
anythingnew 8 months ago
Hey, people! The British Empire oppressed my ancestors, but I don't hate the British people, because they can't be held accountable for the injustices committed by their ancestors. You people need to accept that the USA has apologized to the Japanese Americans, and quit bullying our country just because you're insecure.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
@GremlinsAndGnomes Oh, you poor thing!
UncleFred34 8 months ago
@UncleFred34 Please, I don't need your pity because unlike you I got over it, and I'm not carrying a grudge against every nation that ever did something wrong.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
@GremlinsAndGnomes All Takei said was that the era of internment was a dark chapter in American history, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to say. He did not say that he hated America or any that nonsense that you're implying. You complained about the Japanese 'bullying' our country, which is pure hogwash. People have a right to criticize whatever they choose to. If you want to suppress freedom of speech in order to support your own misguided Nationalism, then you are the bully.
UncleFred34 8 months ago 53
@UncleFred34 Sorry if you misunderstood me. My comment was directed to the people who are trolling about America being a pure, evil, nazi empire. I understand that the internment was a dark chapter on American history and I meant no offense to George.
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greendaydkluver7897 8 months ago
@greendaydkluver7897 i'd like to point out how ignorant you are by 1. pointing out that you are American and 2. not understanding that all humanity has made horrible decisions in treating each other
standoffTiger441 8 months ago
@greendaydkluver7897 Funny. I remember learning that sweeping generalizations is one of the behaviors of a racist person.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
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WOW i didnt know this guy is that old.. and he has such a great sense of humor.. an experience like this would have made me angry forever and disloyal to this country
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dzilla1991 8 months ago
Still nicer than the Japanese camps for American prisoners.
Trucifer 8 months ago
@Trucifer but the thing is, the japanese army could charge them with killing their troops, but with this there was no charges that they could possibly use to put them in such a place
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standoffTiger441 8 months ago
@standoffTiger441 im not agreeing with the japanese empire, but it was wrong of the american government to force people against their will to live in a camp. especially when they have done nothing wrong
retrogamerist 8 months ago
@Trucifer And your point is...?
rkodavey 8 months ago
@rkodavey The point is that Americans didn't use Japanese internment prisoners for bayonette practice and human experiments
standoffTiger441 8 months ago
@standoffTiger441 Which has absolutely no relevance to this video or George Takei's comments.
rkodavey 8 months ago
@rkodavey but it is relevant to your comment which is what i replied to, not the video, please take some time to think before typing your next re-buttal
standoffTiger441 8 months ago
American-born Mexicans got treated like shit too. They were beaten up in LA by uniformed soldiers and sailors, simply because they wore "zoot suits."
MondoBeno 9 months ago
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And this in the land of the free....
stjesuskat666 9 months ago
And remember folks...FDR was a democrat, that did this to these Americans.
fmscribs 9 months ago
Given the anti-Japanese sentiment at the time, the concentration camps would seem like a better alternative to being exposed to an angry, patriotic American public, but it's still very bad.
KZN02 9 months ago
The hypocracy of American democracy :(
jigalojim 9 months ago
@jigalojim The failure of an American education. sp -2 pnts hypocracy?-----------hypocr-i-sy not an a.
Trucifer 8 months ago
We American people were dicks back then
AjmorrisProductions 9 months ago
I agree that this was a dark chapter in American History and shouldn't have happened. But how would you have liked to spend a few years in a Japanese POW
camp. That is, if you lived long enough to make it a few years.
crorivpro 9 months ago
Deal with it.
IMmoreRANDOMthanYOU 9 months ago
Similar thing happened in Tanzania (formerly German East Africa) at the outbreak of WW2. Ordinary civilians were rounded up just because they happened to be German.
I don't think it's fair to call these places "concentration camps", though. As far as I am aware, there were no gas chambers which people were forced into under the guise that they needed to shower and no equivalent of Dr Mengele to carry out gruesome experiments on the camp inmates.
friedmahooga 9 months ago
@friedmahooga
That's not what a concentration camp is. A concentration camp is just a camp constructed for the relocation of any particular group (hence they are "concentrated" there)
Concentration camp =/= labour camp =/= death camp necessarily
carygoleman 9 months ago
@carygoleman Historically, a "concentration camp" could simply mean a place of internment, yes. However, nowadays the term has more or less become synonymous with notorious Nazi camps such as Auschwitz. You'd offend a lot of people if you described a British POW camp (where Germans were actually treated reasonably well) as a concentration camp.
Interestingly, in German you can also make a distinction. A friend of mine once referred to Dachau as an "Arbeitslager" (Labour camp) rather than a "KZ".
friedmahooga 9 months ago
@friedmahooga Regardless of euphemisms, it was as much of a concentration camp, and built for the same reasons, as the concentration camps the British built during the Boer War. They're different from POW camps. Those are for captured enemy soldiers.
Sing Sing wasn't as bad as Alcatraz, but it was still a prison, and calling it a correctional facility doesn't change its basic nature.
Hikikomori013 9 months ago
@Hikikomori013 See other post. Historically the term "concentration camp" was itself a euphemism and could have referred to simple internment camps. Nowadays, the average person (who is unlikely to have much knowledge of the 2nd Boer War) would, however, associate it with somewhere like Auschwitz - officially a "Vernichtungslager" (extermination camp), but nobody calls it that.
I'm not saying that the Japanese-American internment wasn't grim, but it certainly doesn't compare to..(cont)...
friedmahooga 9 months ago
@Hikikomori013 ....life in Auschwitz, or for that matter, life for detainees in the British concentration camps during the 2nd Boer War, where disease, starvation, overcrowding and poor hygiene killed many.
Perhaps things are different in the States, but for me "prison", is a fairly neutral word without specific connotations to link it to places such as Alcatraz.
But then again, I'm British and nobody in the UK would use the term "Correctional Facility". ;-)
friedmahooga 9 months ago
Certainly not right, and sadly due to happen again.
Coalbunny 10 months ago
@Coalbunny Not if I commit genocide on the people attempting to do it.
redcomic619 9 months ago
So sad. :( I am ashamed at what my country did.
xn117 10 months ago
which is worse, slavery or this? i think that this is worse
kitten123t 10 months ago
Japanese internment could be considered a contradiction to the founding principals of this country......but I truly believe that things then could've been much worse. What was going on in Germany, Poland, and Stalinist Russia was far worse. The Third Reich committed ethnic cleansing, and Stalin killed & imprisoned people because he felt like it (which could make him worse than Hitler, but that's another debate for another time).
It's all in the past, though. It won't happen again.
dave55811 10 months ago
@dave55811 There's still Libya. It's not doing too good.
lu4y4pants 10 months ago
@dave55811 It won't so long as people actually stay vigilant and not allow it. And i hope your right... But As for it being impossible, or the idea that it won't happen again, well no offense but that's the epitome of naive. It's like not wearing a seat belt because you already had a car accident last week and know to drive safer now... :)
D3mang3l 10 months ago
@D3mang3l Well, okay; you got me there. Things like this are likely still happening in the world, particularly in Africa (at least ethnic cleansing and mass-killings; unsure about concentration camps). I guess when I was speaking about it not happening again, I was speaking in regards to here in the US, though I couldn't fit it all in at once.
dave55811 10 months ago
@dave55811
Oh, it could have been worse, so it's ok. Remember: as long as you're not Hitler, it's ok.
shotgunbadger 10 months ago
The US is STILL on the brink of doing this again at any time. We need to press for change this should never happen again. People need to read the poem the hangman. Because there will come a time when no one is left and the hangman comes for you.
D3mang3l 10 months ago
@D3mang3l Who wrote the hangman? I might read it.
lu4y4pants 10 months ago
@lu4y4pants You can easily find it just by searching google for "The Hangman" and the authors name is Maurice Ogden.
D3mang3l 10 months ago
@D3mang3l I read it. Took me a while to understand it. I like the message.
lu4y4pants 10 months ago
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If the United States helps rebuild these Japanese cities, it will mark the first time in history that the USA has rebuilt a flattened city in Japan that it didn't flatten. WOW!!!
ibitchslapu 10 months ago
I wonder that...what is a distinction between Natzi and the US during back then.
To me,that the US was just one step away from what the Natz did to YUda.
This dark history is unlawful and low level.
My opinion.
pinetakeplum 10 months ago
Well Spoken
KharamiSunato 10 months ago
when 911 happened a store owned by an indian displayed a picture of himself in sikh dress next to a picture of an arab with turban and beard so the public would not act aggressive towards him. i was ashamed and hurt to have seen this in america,i never wanted to see this in my lifetime.what made me proud was that americans with all kinds of beards started coming to this store to show support.
lemorpion1 10 months ago
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Once the guy equated the Jap camps to CONCENTRATION CAMPS, he lost ALL credibility.
All the food you needed or more, beds, education, to stay with your family, and it was over in less than 3 years.
Furthermore, there was a good percentage of these people that were NOT American. Only west coast Japs (about 100,000) were sent.
Interning JAPS that have a history of 100% love for their emperor(-DUH- Japs weren't patriotic Americans, we just A-BOMBED THEM!!!) is not "horrible". It makes sense.
THEGLASSOFMILK2 10 months ago
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 concentration camps are not defined by conditions but by intentions. nazi's put jews/poles/politicians in concentration camps because they wanted them out of the way for their own personal prejudices, surely we can say the same about the american concentration camps.
ozmusic657 10 months ago 34
@ozmusic657 You can not compare the two .It was Nazi Party Policy to eradicate all Jews, regardless of nationality Concentration camps were merely holding pens untill they met there fate .Hitlers crusade , some say because his Mother died at the hands of a jewish doctor.
barbenH 8 months ago
@THEGLASSOFMILK2
Japs? Wow. Talk about sensitive. Guess nigger and spic are also a part of your vocabulary too. I do suppose you're right though, the Japanese had it better than the blacks who we kept as labor for a hundred years. Or better than the Indians who we mostly exterminated. Now there is a genocide that is far worse than any Nazi crime.
EatMahCar 10 months ago
@EatMahCar Jap. is short for Japanese --- pretty different from n****.
There was no forced labor.
And no, that is a horrible statement to make.
You need to do some more research on the Holocaust and the "Native American genocide"
but of course you don't realize that 90% of the Native population was wiped out--- unintentionally - due to disease.
OTHERWISE they would have been used as slaves/no need for Africans
But clearly you don't know much, making a statement "worse than any Nazi crime". wow.
THEGLASSOFMILK2 10 months ago
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 i totally agree. I grew up on Pine Ridge in the 70's things have not changed. They were strip searching people in the street. All because 2 FBI's were where they were not suppose to be and got killed after firing on a house full of children.
peyoteskye71 8 months ago
@EatMahCar I believe that most of the death among Native Americans was caused by the exchange of diseases between the New World and the Old World
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
It will happen again. That's what the FEMA camps are for.
stoogefreaky 10 months ago
This motherfucker should run for president. That'd be sick.
Redpath9 10 months ago
I didn't know that happened. Horrible indeed. :(
avernion 11 months ago
@avernion Sadly most Americans have no idea this has happened. It's pathetic. Our education simply skips that whole ugly episode as if it didn't even happen. Do your best to pass on this information. The more people who know about it, the less likely it'll happen again.
starz63 10 months ago
all sins have to be atoned for. America is now paying for her sins. in more ways than one. a nation in debt. a mongrel nation. a drop out nation. no jobs, no work, no money, nothing but debt and deficits, etc. Karma has come home here. asians and blacks were tortured here.
Rico8458 11 months ago
@Rico8458
Read about the subconscious mind. Your god will not save you. You must think positively to fix things yourself. Spread positive messages. Once you are optimistic, you will be able to move forward.
anythingnew 8 months ago
You guys really aren't representing America well when you keep refering to the Japanese as Japs and calling them sub-Human. I'm aware that the Japanese did terrible things during the war, but that doesn't make the Japanese race sub-human.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
You all say we are evil for the internment of the Japanese, but I disagree. I admit it was a bad thing to do, but we have already apologized to all the Japanese Americans and told them it was wrong of us to do that and we made payments. We can never make up for all the wrong we do to people but we've done alot. So I don't think the U.S. is evil or racist.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
@GremlinsAndGnomes ok they apologized, when do the Native Americans get there so called apology?? When do they let Leonard Pulliter out of jail for a crime he didnt commit?? When do I get to see the face of the FBI agent that cause my great grandfathers death?? No apology in the world can fix somethings.
peyoteskye71 8 months ago
@peyoteskye71 I'm sure that Native Americans have recieved an apology of some sort. As for Leonard Pulliter, I have no clue who he is, and I have no clue who your great grandfather is. And your right there are some things apologies can never fully compensate for, but holding a grudge isn't going to help anybody, especially when said wrongdoing has already been acknowledged and apologized for.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
I agree with all these points that what the Japanese faced in the internment camps was nothing next to the POW camps our soldiers were in, but we have to acknowledge that we did something bad and violated the rights of people who hadn't done anything wrong. The people I'm not sorry about are the POW we got from the Axis and terrorists.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
I'm ashamed of the apologists for tyranny express by many in this thread. We learned little from all of the tyrants of history, and little from our many wars. The U.S. people still support more and more wars for less and less cause; and with each new war of aggression, more civil rights are taken from all Americans, as in the Patriot Act just renewed with little public outcry. What indeed is the point of fighting and dying when we end up as unfree as the countries we fought? And bankrupt too
leafwatch 11 months ago
Hey George, get over it. Want some "dark chapters"? How about the ones below commited by your relatives: "The Bataan Death March" of American prisoners by Japanese troops- 6000-11000 American prisoners killed. "The Rape of Nanking" China by Japan. Upwards of 200,000 civilians and unarmed Chinese soldiers raped and murdered. Including beheading contests. And of course the cowardly sneak attack on Pearl Harbor where 2402 Americans where killed by Japanese. Get over it, you're still alive!
USAMontanan 11 months ago
@USAMontanan yeah it's pretty easy to get over from being kept from society for 4 long years isn't
TheCristianalvarez 11 months ago
@TheCristianalvarez The country did what it thought was the right thing at the time. Dwelling on it does no good and helps nothing. I'm sick of hearing about the poor Japanese who were well fed and treated well when 33 percent of prisoners held by Japanese died of starvation or were brutally murdered. George is just lucky he wasn't in a Japanese camp.
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SoloFilmsOne 11 months ago
@SoloFilmsOne Grandmothers and mothers did not work at Japanese run POW camps. Brutal military prison guards did. 30 percent of all American prisoners in Japanese POW camps died of starvation or were worked to death. The Americans survived on roughly 600 calories a day. Again, George is just lucky he wasn't in a Japanese run internment camp. If you want something to feel sorry about feel some sorrow for all the American soldiers that were beheaded and bayonetted while held prisoner in Japan.
USAMontanan 11 months ago
very big mistake on Americas part but dont you dare call it a concentration camp you dont know what a concentration camp is apparentley.
allfouradrenaline 11 months ago
@allfouradrenaline Well let's look at the word "Concentration Camp".
Concentration comes from the word "Concentrate", which defines as "centralize: make central" and "draw together or meet in one common center"
Many Japanese Americans were forced out of their house to live in these "centeralized, common" camps; so yeah the word "Concentration Camp" is accurate in this use.
BlueKewne 11 months ago
@allfouradrenaline We took our frustrations of the war and our loss on Japanese Americans who had NO involvement with Pearl Harbor and other attacks.
We punished them for something they didn't do by forcing them into centralized camps and then treated them as lesser than equal, inhumanly, and like pests rather than human beings.
I know what I'm about to say may sting many "patriotic" Americans, but we treated them the same way Nazi Germany treated Jewish and other minorities but with PC flair
BlueKewne 11 months ago
@BlueKewne aboslutely incorrect we gave them food, shelter, clothing, edcation etc. Part of the reason they were relocated was to avoid violence with the people and for the Japanese-American well being. It was a wrongful act on our part but nothing even close to a concentration camp because we gave them food and did not work to death. It was not in anger of the bombings of pearl harbor if it was we would have laid down another Atomic Bomb on the Japanese country right away like we did later on.
allfouradrenaline 11 months ago
@BlueKewne I don't support the internment of the Japanese, but what the government did to them is far from what happened to the Jews. I know that bad things were done to SOME of them,(I mean bad things other then being interned) but we weren't doing a second holocaust.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
I agree George, a dark chapter in American history, indeed.
Justin032106 11 months ago 25
meh
horrorduckftw 1 year ago
Your racist!!!!!" I'm not, I just hate idiots.
remdawgv 1 year ago
Is there any Japanese American here? Do you guys believe that the US deserved Pearl Harbor? Do you guys approve what Japan did to other asians during WWII?
So is the Japanese government still unwilling to apologiz for conducting human experiments on captured asian soldiers?
ttiiyy 1 year ago
@ttiiyy Consider the facts that Japan first raided an American Naval Post...and the US retaliates by sending two atomic bombs into cities with children, mothers, fathers, neighbors, loves and dreams, as well as Japanese soldiers. Please explain the justification here, the radiation caused by the two bombs still leaves an imprint in the generations of children while the naval blockade after pearl harbor is replaceable.
leezuh123 1 year ago
@leezuh123 Please take into mind that the Japanese killed plenty of children, mothers, and fathers as well. Nobody is a saint when it comes to war. Also consider that had we made a land invasion of Japan, millions would have died on both sides.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
@leezuh123 Funny how you talk about killing people with hopes and dreams. I'm sure you couldn't care less about the thousands of children that are killed by abortion each year. They all would've become wives, children, fathers, politicians, cooks, etc, etc, etc. All with their own hopes and dreams.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
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should've dropped to your knees and started sucking cock back then, you flat assed jap fag, fuck you
RonyMexico 1 year ago
This country has always been SICK which is why I think it's odd that people don't see that it still is. Even more so.
With liberty and justice for all white people...they forgot that line.
thebestreddress 1 year ago
@thebestreddress Are you kidding me? Right now in Japan, some politicians try to prohibit foreigners from participating in politics. The US is not that racist! Japan is a real racist country! These people don't even trust immigrants' children even if they're born and raised in Japan.
ttiiyy 1 year ago
My House Representative grew up in one of those camps.
HaoWenXiang 1 year ago
"With libery and justice for all"... How fucking ironic.
lurconis666 1 year ago
@lurconis666 I think it's ironic that the United Nations supports human rights so strongly, yet they do little to stop communism in the world.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
@GremlinsAndGnomes - Part of the UN Charter has been to represent ALL nations without respect to political leanings. It is not the role of the UN to stop communism. It is their role to resolve conflict and address international issues.
melindatx 8 months ago
@melindatx That doesn't change the fact that on the surface, the UN supports human rights. And they don't really seem to do much with stopping conflict, I'm not even sure if they were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
GremlinsAndGnomes 8 months ago
Also all you guys will say that the U.S. government is not guilty for murdering hundreds of thousands more civilians than all those who died in the infamous 9/11? I thought that with all the incidents related to the killings of civilians throughout the Middle East was going to make it clear to all you, that should not be violated human rights by revenge, oil and strategic points against States 'non-grata'. How can you be so stupid to continue kissing the asses of all members of the government?
Mariet31 1 year ago
America needs to get over itself. That was the most racist time in our history.
Jophie12 1 year ago
@Jophie12 Most racist? Were these japs killed in the same way that African Americans were? You are clearly a retard that knows nothing about the American history.
I once argued with a Japanese American, who claimed that the US deserved Pearl Harbor.
There are a lot of far more racist countries around the world. Japan, ironically, is one of them!
ttiiyy 1 year ago
@ttiiyy I'm the retard, you are the one using the term "Japs" You should be ashamed.
Jophie12 1 year ago
@ttiiyy What I find sad about you most is, you cling to the whole black slavery thing like its the only thing we did wrong, that's all I EVER hear about. Japanese people are one of the most ridiculed group of people living here. In fact, all Asians are. Its accepted, and that is very sad. You can rip on an Asian and get away with it, but if you say anything about an "African American" the NAACP, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton start a riot, and most of the time its over NOTHING.
Jophie12 1 year ago 2
@ttiiyy Most black people in america today are not of African descent. So the term "African American" is not valid.
Jophie12 1 year ago
@ttiiyy I'm waiting for the first comment saying "Your racist!!!!!" I'm not, I just hate idiots.
Jophie12 1 year ago
@fukumimisohoni Racist pig
Jophie12 1 year ago
You can thank your Liberal President Georgy boy
fuzzypaws17 1 year ago
Is this what turned him gay?
fuzzypaws17 1 year ago
This isn't as bad as the Indian Wars but incomprehensible today. Never understood why they didn't get their houses and businesses returned to them.
rrhynes 1 year ago
@rrhynes take a look at all the fema camps around America, I don't think it is inconceivable today at all...
Dehzee 1 year ago
@rrhynes If you're talking about the japanese houses and businesses, it is because the american government, nor the War Relocation Authority, was not in charge of taking care of the houses and businesses. They left these matters up to the Japanese to handle, and of course their only option was to sell their properties to private persons.
guitain 1 year ago
@guitain I think that since the government was forcibly removing the Japanese, they should have done something about their porperties and possessions.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
dont worry one day even the whites will be in the same camps again here because america is screwed up.
Rico8458 1 year ago
@Rico8458 I don't appreciate being refered to as "whites". If we have to give everybody special names based on the continents their ancestors came from, I think that white americans should be called European Americans.
GremlinsAndGnomes 11 months ago
The Nazis are still here. They just traded in their brown military uniforms for batons and badges, and pinstriped suits and ties.
senz20 1 year ago
To take the sexiest voice on the planet into a concentration camp is horrible.
MusicBySav 1 year ago 19
Lieutenant Sulu surely outranked all of those soldiers, how could he be detained?
Joker3797 1 year ago
yep ... no US citizen should have EVER been forced to experience that. See George Carlin's comments for how I feel about this.
PerditaLupo 1 year ago
Any patriotic American who thinks the US is gods gift to the world needs to watch this video and realise they've done some horrible things as bad as other atrocities through the world
provenelk 1 year ago