> It is important history--which is why you shouldn't use it to attack your political opponents by drawing false equivalences, as you just did.
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.
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.