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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What/who do you think he is referring to as worse?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 days ago (1 children)

George Takei was five years old when he and his family were sent to a Japanese American internment camp during World War II - so probably that among the other political events and upheavals since

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thanks. He's definitely a fighter.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago

Wasn't he actually interred in a camp during WWII? And he lived through the AIDS crisis as a gay man

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Probably his three years in three different internment camps.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

He has a graphic novel biography about his childhood growing up in internment camps. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand a bit of American history that they don't really teach in schools.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush

Just my guess though.