George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”
Abhiram
Merry ChristmasI agree but with Trump skin bright Orange you would think he would be first in line to be deported.
Seppo Helava@georgetakei were not headed there. We are there. The numbers may be smaller, but the mechanics and intent and execution are identical, and *currently happening*.
Framing this as where we “are headed” is frog boiling framing. We’re in the pot. We’re being boiled.
Steven Saus [he/him]I don't think it's framing (considering who said it) that is intended to soften. It is framing intended to avoid throwing people into despair by offering a thread of hope.
Also, please for the love of my fucking functionality, please CW. I see all of it anyway, but I and most of those I care about are barely functioning, with several people I personally know on the edge of self-harm or worse.
Thanks.
Quarky@georgetakei It has been evident for months where the USA was going. Who has the guts to stop it?
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absolutely horrifying
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absolutely horrifying
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cqd_sosThere wasn't a basis, George. It was summary judgement, rounding up the, supposedly, "usual suspects", if only to make the government look like it was taking action, in response to an attack.
I know it's of little comfort, but it was never about you. Or your family.
Christy Marx Rambling Writer@cqd_sos
What an utterly insulting bullshit reply.
What an utterly insulting bullshit reply.
Explain, please.
@cqd_sos i think George Takei, who lived through it and had the firsthand experience, knows more about it. Your reply was demeaning of his experience and denies the underlying ethnic bigotry. The government didn't go around rounding up everyone of German or Italian heritage.
Okay. It's George Takei, though. For future reference.
@cqd_sos thanks for catching my typo.
Always glad to be of assistance.
Simon Flett@georgetakei You bear witness Mr Takei. Infinite respect.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@georgetakei I beg you fellow citizens of #Arkansas listen to this person's experience. We have to do better, and our voting record is not looking good. We must remember the humanity of all people.
Paul@georgetakei I don't wish to draw a direct comparison with the Holocaust, which was it's own horrendous, utterly unforgivable thing, but sending people to be concentrated in hellish camps outside the country due to their race and/or politics is definitely the same fuckin ballpark
JT Santana@georgetakei GREAT post!!!!
gunstick@georgetakei I'm headed for the door on the right. So I'm not going to USA anymore.
cameronbosch 
@georgetakei Also:
- Tried to serve their country, not a facist by impeaching and trying to convict Donald Trump for January 6th 2021, an attempted insurrection.
- Transgender individuals, because why the fuck not. :/
- Anybody not willing to stand the line on MAGA encroachment.
Enough is enough, we won't go quietly. Either he obeys the courts and respects the separation of powers, or we don't respect his orders.
punIssuer@georgetakei #altText4you Instagram post by jenniferkristineschick of a cartoon by J. Duquette:
Armed guards in black clothes and red cap lead three groups of prisoners into three separate entrances labeled 'Looked hispanic', '"60 Minutes" Staff', and 'Criticized Trump on social media', of a concentration camp, complete with wrought-iron banner that reads "ARBEIT MAGA FREI", in the style of the infamous "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" ("work liberates") that the German ones had
Armed guards in black clothes and red cap lead three groups of prisoners into three separate entrances labeled 'Looked hispanic', '"60 Minutes" Staff', and 'Criticized Trump on social media', of a concentration camp, complete with wrought-iron banner that reads "ARBEIT MAGA FREI", in the style of the infamous "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" ("work liberates") that the German ones had
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Tea time.@georgetakei They sent you to Arkansas, and not one of the camps in California?!
Wow. That is cruel.