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Louise Haynes's avatar

Excellent, Lois. I am glad to learn these details. Unjust and unacceptable racist treatment of a group of citizens based on social and political fear. All those interned in the camps showed more patriotism than those who put them there. We have a lot to learn from them.

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Perry J. Greenbaum 🇨🇦 🦜's avatar

I knew a lot of the history, but it was good to read the story of George Takei and of his parents ; and, equally important, how they overcame hardship and discrimination. One of the major reasons that Star Trek was so popular in the 1960s and 1970s was that it presented a view that aligned with the promises of liberal democratic values.

These are the values that were instilled in me by my parents and by my teachers. These values were considered the societal norm until recently. In the last 10 years or so (perhaps longer), extremism and hate has been normalized, in America, but also in my nation of Canada, in Britain, in France and in many other nations of the world.

It is frightening, and we once again are callled upon to fight against the forces of darkness, because there is no light or love in hatred and discrimination.

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