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      28 days ago

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

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      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

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      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.