Ed West
StarTalk radio had an interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson interviewing George Takie from Star Trek fame. The old time actor reminisced on his time growing up in internment camps that Japanese-Americans were placed following the cowardly attack on Pearl harbor that was the 9/11 of its day. it is easy for the geriatric gay Takei and Neil Degrasse Tyson today to question the reasoning for placing Japanese-Americans into these camps not being around the hysteria of the moment. In America in 1942 the fact that a foreign enemy could make an attack of destruction and death of this magnitude on American property was appalling and abhorrent and perhaps these two forgot how may American sailors were slain. They killed with impunity in Asia bombing from the skies and it appeared they would be making their way east onto California and placing a bunch of west Coast cultural snobs like this assholes family was a good decision at the time. Again it was not Germany that bombed pearl harbor Mr DeGrasse ass and Tyson makes the familiar absurd comment that we were at war with Germany and we didn't put Germans into internment camps and it must of been a racism reaction. The feasibility of putting millions of Germans or those of part German ancestory was both piratical or necessary. The Japanese back then were a barbaric race of militarized people who rampaged through Chine in the late thirties raping and killing twenty thousand women in a months time and perhaps Neil Tyson knows little of what people knew in America reading accounts of the atrocities of the Japanese army through Life and Time magazines. Whenever I hear idiots make this comparison of German-American and Japanese-American treatments I laugh as few don't realize the power of the emperor in Japanese culture an that all of those of Japanese blood were to worship this man as a living God. Germans had long been assimilated into American society and loyalty shouldn't been questioned but for Japanese back then this was an issue and proper precaution movement what was expected to be a Japanese invasion of the West coast.
Chances were high that the majority of those people interned in California would of jumped in support of the emperors troops had they had the ability to land forces in the San Francisco Bay. the racial pride and destiny Japanese felt as a race to rule were so high it would be inevitable of them to support their true countrymen and America has always just been a land of economic opportunity instead of assimilation and new homeland for these people. Much has always been made of the volunteer force of Japanese-Americans who volunteered to fight in Germany but that force would of been dwarfed by a Japanese-American volunteer force wishing to fight for Hirohito if he so desired and had manpower in North America. The Star Trek hero went on to say the worse part of being interned was when the war was over and that his family had nothing and had to live in shelters with real derelicts of society. George Takei is a selfish son of a bitch that only looks through the lens of his own experiences and likely paid little attention to the suffering and the reasoning for those he considered derelicts and how they got that way. there were no opportunities for these derelicts and some of the worse members of society as Takei described them to star in some stupid silly sixties space television show programming a future generation of continued stupidity following it decades later. everyone should be as lucky as George take and he and his family liley never knew true suffering like these derelicts had faced.
A George Takei who made his living from playing and reading lines knows little of the conditions of these people who hated having to share life in the shelters and considered them below him and his family should never have been in conditions to seeing property confiscated and thrown in shelters following the war. these derelicts likely became that way from similar governmental decisions that have never been discussed as the poor suffering of suspicious alien Japanese-Americans. The rise of many hobos or tramps in the 1870' as they were caused often was because of Asian migration that cut into the incomes of many Americans from these free-market forces wanting to use immigration as an economic weapon against real citizens of this country. A young George take would of jumped at the chance of serving the imperial forces of japan at this time period and would of been as much as a devoted follower of the orders of a genocidal sick Japanese colonel as he followed Captain Kirk on Star Trek. without the generosity of America Hollywood a George Takei likely would of been one of those derelict defeated Japanese soldiers in remote pacific islands holding out up to the debut of Star Trek in the mid sixties
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