On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
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Today I hear echoes of that time in the plans of the Trump administration. They want to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants and deploy the military and build detention camps to carry this out. /3
Fascism has come before to America. It destroyed so many lives. We can resist it today and not repeat the mistakes of the past. / end
I sincerely never want to repeat the past again. No one ever deserved what happened to them in the camps, and I feel like not enough has been done even today to right the wrong.
These gross people must be stopped.
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What will our GenX, millennials, or GenZ do?
Japanese-Canadians on the West coast were forced to internment camps as well. After the war, many didn't return west because seeing what was literally taken from them daily would be too painful. Def. a low point of Canadian history.
https://www.straight.com/news/1216326/human-rights-activist-george-takei-learns-about-japanese-canadian-history-while-touring#
EVERYONE HAS GONE COMPLETELY LAME-BRAINED. WTF?! .@CitizensKnow
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Your book, They Called Us Enemy, was one of the most emotional readings I have experienced.
We know what's at stake now. We have enough people openly declaring it. We can protect each other.
Not again. We resist. 🧡
It will also become a reality for all in Australia if the LNP gains control of our government and Country .
They are all ready dividing our society through the media and they have shown they are against immigrants in general.
https://bijaema.org/
Please listen to George Takei, everybody.
The native American, blacks, all Asian races, Latino's even Irish people have suffered the sting of fascism from the begining of America.
This will never end until enough white people choose to end it.
Racists don't like to admit it and even Hollywood rarely tells the story despite loving WW2 stories.
You’ve been very outspoken on this history, even writing a Broadway play about it (“Allegiance”).
I’ve seen Manzanar.
We owe it to ourselves to heed the warnings of survivors like you or we will never break the cycle of oppression, destruction, and dehumanization.
…Every time he shows up in a public space.
Source: https://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/10/17/former-gop-official-trans-people-should-be-put-camp
Isolationist history.
Without Pearl Harbour America would not have entered the war or developed the atom bomb. Instead you would have learned about it when a German V3 or V4 landed on New York.
I empathise with your unjust victimisation.
Isolationism remains a lie. 👍
As long as people like you keep simping for...
34-felon is walking in Hitlers footsteps with the help of Republicans & Putin.
Will we wake up before millions die?
Lord. I hope we have the courage to protect our neighbors!
You do not stand alone.
Example: 1. Does your city have an INA 287(g) - agreement with ICE? If so, get a group together to get it rescinded.
2. Leave info on rights, dangers in immigrant neighborhoods.
3. Find helpful attorneys
Be warned: it’s not just undocumented migrants. Xenophobes will find ways of “undocumenting” whoever they dislike.
https://bijac.org/exclusion-memorial/
Exporting 60,000 illegal immigrants in prison would also be taken them out of detention
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🖤🙏
Still the majority voted for him
And I truly believe this is a primary motive driving the “elite” R’s deportation obsession.
https://www.archives.gov/research/aapi/ww2/property
Connecting the two episodes makes Trump's crimes seem to be somehow justified by an aggression from the outside that now does not exist.
Look at that, what else is going on
MAGA cultists, your fascist agenda won’t last forever and at the end of the day minorities in this country will prevail.
The racist purges have been on going to one degree or another since *always*.
Me.
Back then, it was you; now it's transgendered folk playing sports ball. Or is it Haitians? Or Mexicans? Russians? The Chinese? It's Arabs again?
Fear thy neighbor, in what they keep calling "a Christian nation".
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You deserved better.
My heart breaks to think of beautiful souls in such horrible circumstances.
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/07/504696953/pearl-harbor-survivor-recounts-sinking-of-japanese-sub-before-aerial-attack
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/07/504696953/pearl-harbor-survivor-recounts-sinking-of-japanese-sub-before-aerial-attack
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We are a country of all countries, if you live here you are American!
By the time the war ended, many had found wives and were settling in with farms.
I can only imagine how dishonest the public education system will become, considering the way things are going.
Thank you for your efforts to educate.
❤️ Thank you, author George Takei, for promoting understanding and empathy.
My father would have appreciated your efforts. He and his family were sent from Hawaii to Crystal City, TX
Excellent attempt, though. Bet it works great on ignorant idiots.
My great-grandfather bought farms from his Japanese neighbors, worked them throughout the war and sold them back for the same price. My greedy bigoted uncle was furious at him for not keeping the land or selling it back at normal farmland prices.
With the Trump Retribution Tour about to begin, I fear that those brave souls who spoke against the Orange Felon will have a bad time ahead. These (enemy within, vermin) are being used again by Trump and his sycophants. Terrifying.
Can't be bothered trying to remember.
But, let's forget about the reality of back then, let's rewrite history according to your personal grievances: your imprisonment was worse than the death of hundreds of thousands, ok?
Clearly not something America was proud of but here we go again thanks to that fuckwad.
Total BS. Bigotry of the worst kind.
Those who arrive to wealthy parents are “fortunate”, not “chosen”, or any other kind of “special”.
Life is more like a Lottery, than it is God saying, “You will be the one I like best!” That God doesn’t exist.
The cemetary was still visible, but I saw no names there. The buildings had all vanished.
It was a shock to learn this happened in 20th century USA.
There were camps with American officers, as well.
To see the same fascist fearmongering
raise it's ugly head today seems surreal.
Repugnican'ts like to lump certain people
into one category depending on their race,
gender, or beliefs. Stereotypical behaviour
limits our growth and creates unnecessary aversions.
I would recommend a visit for anybody who can get there.
I know, I know, there were differences between the specific & current at the time circumstances.
Someone is going to spell it out for me, I'm certain. And yet...