23. George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party sitting w/ Nation of Islam in 1961. https://twitter.com/AtDawnTheyTweet/status/616828364461109248 …
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24. But there's one other thing to say about George Takei. When he was young he & his family were interned in camp by USA gov't.
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25. I suspect what annoyed Takei wasn't just Thomas opposition to same sex marriage but also comment on internment in that decision.
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26. In decision, Thomas said that government can't deny dignity, that slaves and interned Japanese maintained dignity even in suffering.
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27. So Thomas was saying (to Takei & other minorities): we shouldn't complain, we have stiff upper lip, we can take it.
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28. The "blackface" comment is likely outburst of Takei's personal feeling that Thomas was appropriating internment experience for bad ends
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@HeerJeet ask yourself if you’d be so charitable to an unfavored class member with similar personal trauma that led to offensive comments.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chumunculus How am I justifying Takei's comments? Contextualization isn't justification (same as in debates about terrorism).3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
@chumunculus It's a fundamental flaw in reactionary thinking to conflate trying to understand context with apolgia.
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@chumunculus I called Takei's comments "appalling" (twice). Isn't that enough?0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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