George Takei in Japanese concentration camps

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[UncleFred34]

@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.

[TempestKiro]

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.

[nonzshot]

REST IN PEACE GEORGE TAKEI

[Avatarfan10000]

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.

[BelleAndTheBoy]

@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.

[Lynviking]

@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.

[BelleAndTheBoy]

@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".

[chodiestchode]

@xelanesqueHQ So you obviously know nothing about either of them.

[Lynviking]

@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]

@xelanesqueHQ and you know this because you were there, right?

[BelleAndTheBoy]

@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.