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Lea Salonga, George Takei & Telly Leung (Image via Fathom Events)
George Takei, the out 81-year-old Star Trek icon and social media phenomenon, still gets fired up discussing his family's internment under orders by FDR during WWII.
Speaking from California shortly before the spate of deadly wildfires there, he recounted for me the unconscionable hardship faced by Japanese Americans during this period, which included having their bank accounts frozen and being literally imprisoned without any charges ever being filed, all because the U.S. government decided their ethnicity trumped their citizenship. “The roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast were sent to 10 barbed-wire prison camps in the most godawful places in this country. All desolate, isolated. There were two camps in the blistering-hot desert of Arizona. There was another camp in the swamps of Arkansas. There were camps in the high, windswept, cold plains of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and two of the most desolate places in California.”
“I mean, can you imagine this?” he asks, still incredulous after over 70 years.
(Image via House of Cats)
I'm not sure how I feel about this, to be honest. George Takei is being a new app called House of Cats that stars parodies of the Trumps, including Trumpy Cat, in a White House setting. You're supposed to take pleasure from getting your pic taken with Trumpy Cat and making him say and do silly things.
Takei seems to know it's a potentially bad idea, saying in a press release:
Thanks for keeping it up for Pride @BenMastersxxx !!🌈🌈😈🤤🤤#BenMasters pic.twitter.com/SZLdZLZBhD
— Larry Flock (@_type_40_) June 19, 2018
Above: Ben Masters keeps it Pride-tastic.
Takei and his husband (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
UPDATE: A classy response from Uncle George:
Vindication! I never believed the story that George Takei sexually assaulted a man nearly 40 years ago, and was always adamant that it should be okay to believe that some accusers are liars — if their stories make no sense.
Scott Brunton, the ex-model who smeared Takei as a sex fiend, has now been forced to withdraw his sensationalized accusations against the liberal lion, thanks to a fearless story by The New York Observer's Shane Snow.
From his bombshell piece:
The right Attitude! (Image via Attitude)
Above, feast your eyes on Canada's anti-Trump. More on him here.
Really interesting idea. More here
