Jesse McClure Jun 20
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Show threadHauntedGram1872_13Jun 20
@georgetakei
But NOBODY REMEMBERS!!!
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, Historian, 1904
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@HauntedGram1872_13 @georgetakei that quote is too old. noone remembers it ;)
Show threadHauntedGram1872_13Jun 20
@speckmantel @georgetakei I've always remembered it, and it's on one of my profile photo.
Show threadenoch_exe_incJun 21
@HauntedGram1872_13 @georgetakei Also, those of us who know their history are doomed to watch others repeat it anyway, no matter how loudly we yell at them not to.
Show threadHauntedGram1872_13Jun 21
@enoch_exe_inc @georgetakei All too true.😢
Show threadSylvain Soliman ☕️Jun 20

@georgetakei #ALT4you

Tweet from Blue Georgia 1d ago:
"People's rights are being abused,
people's rights are being violated... these are trial runs for what this administration will attempt to do to citizens."
- Pasadena Pastor Rev. Mark Chase on unidentified masked men in unmarked cars hauling away six people from a bus stop.

The tweet also includes a picture of the pastor, accompanied by two other religious persons, making his speech in Pasadena, CA.

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@soliman @georgetakei
thanks for adding alt text!
i don‘t need captions, but many others do :)
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@georgetakei
being from germany and knowing a bit or two about ‚our‘ history, it still freaks me out to read about madison square in 1939. or the internment camps for american citizens of japanese heritage …
learnt about that through the internet after i was grown up.

so, please:
WE fucked up. BIG TIME.
pls don‘t let history repeat itself. anywhere in the world.
please. 🫶

Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 20

@speckmantel @georgetakei

We got this.

Churchill: You can always count on Americans to do the right thing. After they've tried everything else.

Trump is the last stop on the "everything else" line. I have faith my people will do the right thing.

Fucking finally. Been waiting my whole damn life for this.

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@Uair @georgetakei i wish you, nay, all of us the best of luck!

a bit more of history lessons in school couldn‘t hurt though.
Show threadDrWhoZeeJun 21

@speckmantel @Uair @georgetakei Your last sentence assumes that the folks learning from history want to avoid what happened — I’ve the growing/gnawing suspicion, in some cases the certainty, that some folks are learning from history, just with the opposite intention.

My conclusion is: it’s not a case of not knowing and therefore stumbling into a repeat of history — it’s intentional.

Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 21

@DrWhoZee

I concluded that a long time ago. The people with the power treat history as a guide to what works. Santayana was an idiot.

Orwell thought he was writing a warning, but he was naive. He wrote the blueprint. Probably has more blood on his hands than Marx by now.

Show threadas-i-see-itJun 21
@Uair @DrWhoZee
I think another book would be the comparatively recent "Handmaid's Tale"
Frightening how many similarities there are to the Republic of Gilead.
Interesting that a map shows an area (roughly California) is shown as "Rebel Held"
Show threadSassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽Jun 20

@georgetakei

these are purges. Enough of them, and people will either revolt, of turn in their own neighbours.

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Jun 20
@georgetakei When Fred Trump Sr. should've been ordered out in WWII he falsely claimed his family originated from Karlstad in Sweden, not from Kallstadt in Germany.
Show threadPeachMcDJun 20

@georgetakei

#JDVance &the #GOP are using genocidal rhetoric about Democrats& progressives & arresting #Democratic elected officials

You have a platform to inform people. Please keep speaking out!

Show threadAlanJun 20
@georgetakei I also don't think we're in the stage of "it's about to happen again", we 're in the stage of it's happening again, right now. The concentration camps with immigrants of all statuses are in distributed locations. At sites refusing oversight or plain visits from congressional reps.
Show threadJimJoeJun 21
@georgetakei Maybe it's good privileged people, senators and mayors experience the treatment poor people in America receive daily. Why Public Enemy and other groups came to being. Why people that live in countries with unmarked black vans fear for their lives an trek to the US. There are not enough people speaking out on this horrible, abusive experience.
Show threadMarkNWJun 21
@georgetakei I'm finding your account of it here really informative and moving https://www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-novel/they-called-us-enemy/list?title_no=7685
They Called Us Enemy

George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's—and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon—and America itself—in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

www.webtoons.com