Jim Of Pennsyltucky
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽In the internment camps we learned valuable skills! Like how not to get shot for trying to escape, when we just running to use the public latrine on a freezing cold night.
Lyle Solla-Yates@georgetakei Both sides etcetera EDIT: For those not aware of the context, Mr. Takei is referring to the current efforts in Florida to force teaching of false history about slavery. I am ironically agreeing with his ironic statement about his personal history. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66261072
pepper1700@Lyle @georgetakei There is no "both side" here, the US interned its own citizen, not that we did any better here in Canada.
Kyozou
Leon, The Verdant Orange@Lyle @georgetakei Sarcasm doesn't translate well with text. It never does. quotes are much more effective at pointing out the views of others.
Missy@verdantOrange @Lyle @georgetakei I understood exactly what he was referring to, and how ridiculous the idea of "they learned from their torture" sounds
@geekyblackhealer @Lyle @georgetakei So how does this Daughters of the Confederacy-style attempt to reframe history relate to the "both sides" argument (Unless he means the "giving" and "receiving" sides)?
Badibulgator@geekyblackhealer @verdantOrange @Lyle @georgetakei
Right. Sarcasm works very well, just not with everyone…
Right. Sarcasm works very well, just not with everyone…
@badibulgator @geekyblackhealer @verdantOrange @Lyle @georgetakei To be fair, I am guilty of sarcasm in written form too, the issue is that we tend to assume everybody in the world is aware of the required context to get it.
SearingTruth"Don't wonder what the epic battle will look like.
It will be a slow consumption of the human race.
One hatred and misconception and misunderstanding at a time."
SearingTruth
JanJ@georgetakei Love and respect to you. I cannot imagine your experience as a child. We, the ones who have benefited from privilege in the US, have the responsibility to atone for the wrongs meted out by the powerful.
Jargoggles@georgetakei
Careful, Florida is going to start teaching about how people "personally benefited" from being interned in camps.
Careful, Florida is going to start teaching about how people "personally benefited" from being interned in camps.
@georgetakei @jargoggles There are still people, to this day, who argue that the US government didn’t act wrongly when it incarcerated thousands of US citizens who were not charged with any crime.
@kyozou @georgetakei @jargoggles Just because the US was better than Nazi Germany is not an excuse for US wrongdoing.
JR@georgetakei Florida ends in “da” for a reason.
Danielle@georgetakei I made a screen shot and posted a copy to the Spoutible site. You always have an important message and put it so well. Thanks for all you do! Much love ❤️
Edonkulous@georgetakei I am so sorry this was done to you and your family.
@georgetakei
Not as valuable a skill as learning to serve a white master though.
Not as valuable a skill as learning to serve a white master though.
arceuthobium@SNerd @georgetakei that definitely makes up for being forbidden by law to learn to read.
Coyoty@SNerd @georgetakei Florida would call that an unpaid internship.
@coyoty lifetime!
Green Roc Thoughts@georgetakei When I was a kid in the 80's, Southern California schools did not teach me about internment camps, I learned about the living nightmare less than a year ago, watching Youtube.
My heart aches for what you, and many others, had to endure. The inhumane treatment of human beings needs to stop.
If we, when young humans, dont learn about mistakes of past humans, how can our future leaders know what not to do.
Senator Brownshirt@georgetakei
Ron DeSantis and history-liars like him are dangerous anachronisms and counter-productive.
Ron DeSantis and history-liars like him are dangerous anachronisms and counter-productive.
Garret Polk (masked)@georgetakei My best friend's mom was in the camps. We think this happened long ago in our past but it wasn't long ago at all. And we haven't progressed very far either.
Aaron@garretpolk @georgetakei We are still doing it now, just to different groups. The immigrant camps. In another few decades, will we be combating the same BS? Hearing sarcastic comments about how many useful skills were learned from children being ripped away from their parents? It's the same crap. A revolving door of abuse, with a different excuse for each decade.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free! For the moment. Whose turn is it next?
Paul Horn@georgetakei The Ultimate in Irony.
This sign is currently in my garage. I inherited it from my father, who grew up in Arcadia. He would have been about 11 or 12 when the “camp” was active.
Trees and shrubs were clearly more important to the Army than the Japanese Americans interned there.
It’s a reminder to me, every day, of man’s inhumanity to man.
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency@georgetakei I just applied for a job editing term and college application papers for Japanese students.
I used as reference my Japanese ex-landlady, Keiko, who’s amazing and still very involved with the maintenance of the property at 70.
Her father saw the writing on the wall and left the U.S. before internment camps became a reality. He dodged a second bullet by oversleeping the morning of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and not being in the target area.
What’s happening in Florida is deplorable.
Elizabeth Alcinoe@georgetakei Oh, it was horrible. I couldn't believe that we actually did that. I didn't know when I was young. So it shocked me even more when I first read about Manzanar. This is America? How could I not have known? This can never happen again.
@georgetakei I am so sorry.
Solarbird 
@georgetakei stone cold george takei
i approve, obviously
Silversalty@georgetakei
MAGAs have no shame in their BS PR. If slavery represented opportunites like lifetime no quit unpaid interships why didn't the rednecks of the day sign up?
Today too.
Henriette@georgetakei Just read your graphic novel about the camps. What a wonderful way of communicating such a complex issue. The child's point of view helps us understand the situation. Thank you for sharing your experience in such an artistic way.
ZZ Bottom
Howard Jones@georgetakei George l am so sorry you and your family went through that horrible ordeal it should never have happened thank you for gifting us with Allegiance which is poignant and beautiful your British friend Howard 🇦🇽🖐
TheBigFatPlan@georgetakei Nobody wants to talk about the upside of eating oil billionaires.
Jon AwbreyLet's hope in prison DJT may develop skills which could be applied for his personal benefit.
Arbeit Macht Frei, Anybody?
ezaquarii@georgetakei if that's humor, it's black hole dark.
Oregon Wine Woman
MsSmartyPants@georgetakei
De Santis' American history curriculum is a good example of white supremacy activism in action. Most white Americans today are immigrants who came to the US many years after slavery.
Many white immigrants were subjected to oppression and discrimination at the hands of the same white men who profited from the oppression of Black people.
The actual history of slavery has little to do with most white Americans. THAT'S what they don't want to be taught to be taught in schools.
De Santis' American history curriculum is a good example of white supremacy activism in action. Most white Americans today are immigrants who came to the US many years after slavery.
Many white immigrants were subjected to oppression and discrimination at the hands of the same white men who profited from the oppression of Black people.
The actual history of slavery has little to do with most white Americans. THAT'S what they don't want to be taught to be taught in schools.
@georgetakei This lesson coming soon to Florida schools!
Jonathan Lyons@georgetakei I believe Rhonda Santis is running on a platform of “work makes you free.”
Referring to the governor as she/her because pronouns maker so uncomfortable.
Referring to the governor as she/her because pronouns maker so uncomfortable.
Dikobraz (Одинокий дикобраз)@georgetakei kidnapped victims learn valuable survival skills they can use all their lives (yes ironic). #thanks George
Heather Cox Richardson : Florida’s Distorted Standards for African American Studies
Heather Cox Richardson: Florida’s Distorted Standards for African American Studies
The people in Florida who wrote the standards for African American studies: how to write them to satisfy Governor DeSantis’ hatred for anything that speaks about racism and injustice. Admitting tha…
OtownKim
Lindi 🚂@georgetakei the fact that people have responded to this toot the way they have shows that US history is not taught well. Many people know nothing about internment camps. My girls and I appreciated your book and look forward to your visit to K-state in the fall!