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To me, it's clearly an anti-Republic or anti-conservative jab, implying that "those people" shouldn't be allowed to regain power, else some poor minority will get put into camps. Using the argument that if Takei says so, it's because he's lived through it, so we should listen to him. Ofc, not to detract from what he went through, it's horrible.
Speaking as a non-partisan libertarian - it is a fact that the contemporary Republican party has openly embraced white nationalism. Racism is a type of collectivism, which is attractive precisely because it's a lazy un-nuanced explanation for one's woes. The Republican platform used to have mainstream politicians that kept those urges in check, and while perhaps pundits courted those urges with dog whistles and the like on talk radio, they could still be said to have distance from the mainstream party. But part of Trump's "edginess" was openly saying what "couldn't be said", and so the dam holding it back has burst. This certainly does not mean that all Republicans are white nationalists, nor does it imply that Republicans with power will automatically enact white nationalist policies. But open white nationalism does now form a significant part of the mainstream Republican party.
Now since I must include an analogous analysis of the other political sports team, lest some partisan respond with "no that's not true and even if it is the other party is the same or worse" - It is certainly true that there is a large contingent of the democratic party that has openly embraced minority-favoring racism, and that is a terrible thing as well! But for the most part that discourse revolves around inclusionary racism (disadvantaged group #643 needs help) rather than exclusionary racism. We've seen the catastrophic results of exclusionary racism enough times to know where it leads, but it's much harder to know where inclusionary racism leads (apart from stoking more racism in general, these political teams are in ying-yang). Presently, the concrete results seem to be bureaucracy, language policing, and a new proto-religion to repeated if one occupies a politically sensitive position (and it's not clear how this could continue to snowball into society-wide exclusionary racism). These things are certainly not great dynamics, but they're a far cry from bottom-up lynchings and top-down concentration camps.
Only because the GOP allowed their party to be turned into a Nazi bar:
https://old.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw...
If the folks on that side of the political spectrum don't like it, maybe they should be kicking out the Nazis instead of courting them for votes.
Can you be precise in stating exactly how you believe I did this? My point was simply that Takei has strong views for a reason worth respecting.
> As a brown guy, I certainly didn't feel safer in 2015-2016 when folks tried to turn Trump's ban on refugees from certain countries designated by Obama into a conversation about internment of Muslim Americans.
This is a bit vague, too, since Trump wasn’t in office in 2015 or 2016. Are you referring to the way some of his people cited the internment camps as positive precedents? The problem there certainly doesn’t seem to be the people who believe Japanese internment was wrong.
> Also, I'm skeptical that Americans are even equipped to teach this history in context. Imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot. Japan had a large population of Americans, and America had just launched a surprise attack on Japan. What would imperial Japan have done to those Americans within their borders?
Can you expand this idea? I’m failing to see why that matters in the sense that throughout my life it’s seemed pretty broadly accepted in both parties that we should be freer than WWII-era Japan and Germany.
As another "brown guy", I'm absolutely comfortable with this necessary conversation happening. Especially since Trump immediately ramped up forced internment of legal immigrants, some of which we later discovered amounted to literal ethnic cleansing via forced sterilization practices.
The thing that makes me feel unsafe is the fact that this stuff is happening, and has been happening for years, and that by and large people don't talk about and instead ignore it, not the fact that people very occasionally try to use relevant history to shine a light on the shadows under which we still live.
> Also, I'm skeptical that Americans are even equipped to teach this history in context. Imagine if the shoe had been on the other foot. Japan had a large population of Americans, and America had just launched a surprise attack on Japan. What would imperial Japan have done to those Americans within their borders?
This is a really disingenuous presentation of what actually happened, so yes, I agree that you are probably not equipped to teach this history in context, but that doesn't mean everyone is.
Source?
Here's an article on the resulting investigation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-detained-ice-unnecessary-...
> Tuesday's report said investigators did not corroborate "allegations of mass hysterectomies." But investigators said they did find "serious issues" regarding medical procedures and policies at the Georgia facility and the conduct of Mahendra Amin, a doctor whom Irwin County detainees accused in 2020 of performing questionable medical procedures, including, in some cases, without the patients' full consent.