georgetakei

@georgetakei@universeodon.com

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All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

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When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. /1

georgetakei,

It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

/end

georgetakei,

In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

/2

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We’re a long ways from a simpler time.

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This feels like a Star Trek episode.

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I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

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A calculated error.

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The memory's a little Fozzie.

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That was a simpler time.

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Kevin McCarthy giving the nominating speech for Jim Jordan is like making the ex-boyfriend give the wedding toast. And to top it all off, McCarthy comes out and says that Jordan has been an effective legislator—even though he hasn’t passed a single bill into law in his 16 years in Congress. The response? Uproarious laughter from the Democrats. And well-deserved scorn.

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The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away.

georgetakei, to random

It’s the time between appointments for me that feels like a dead zone.

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The Prints of Darkness.

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I piloted a starship, and I can’t figure this out either.

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Wait. Is that…?

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The truth is out there 👽

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His performance deserves…an Oscar.

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Where's the lie?

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I needed this boost.

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Well played 👏🏼 https://www.comicsands.com/satanic-temple-chaplains-iowa-schools-2667173901.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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Warning: Graphic image.

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Love is a precious thing. https://www.comicsands.com/walnut-the-crane-dies-tributes-2667181915.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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Dad joke incoming.

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Let it out, girl! https://www.comicsands.com/daycare-little-girl-cussing-bathroom-2667166393.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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