Actor George Takei was a guest on The Daily Show and Jon Stewart wisely decided not to make it a yuk-fest with Star Trek jokes but instead spent the time allowing Takei to describe the time during World War II when his family were herded into barbed-wire enclosed internment camps for the entire duration of the war purely because of their Japanese ethnicity or, as we say now, racial profiling.
Takei also said something was new to me and that was that liberal icon Earl Warren, who later became Chief Justice of a US Supreme Court that issued landmark decisions on civil rights and other fundamental freedoms, was one of the worst advocates of the policy, whipping up anti-Japanese sentiment to win elections as state attorney general and later as governor.
It is a poignant interview and Stewart is to be commended for picking the topic and then letting Takei speak at length on it.
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The US never learns. Now they lock up taxi drivers in Gitmo.
If you enjoyed this interview, you’ll probably like the episode of Penn Jillette’s podcast on which George Takei was a guest: http://pennsundayschool.com/episodes/#episode_link_113
It’s more of a relaxed conversation than a formal interview, but he talks in more detail about his time in the internment camp, as well as about his homosexuality and other topics. It’s about 90 minutes altogether.
-Summarily rounded up
-no charges
-no trial
-no due process.
That sounds bad and war-crimey, therefore I wonder if War Crimes Apologist StevoR will sail in to completely whitewash it.
@ 3 Holms
Nah, they’re not Muslims. If they were Muslims if would be OK.
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