George Takei on being sent to an internment camp, Star Trek and hiding his sexuality.
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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Conjuring an Image of a Concentration Camp
"There was a controversy over calling them concentration camps," he says. "I mean, you're conjuring an image of something we've all seen in the movies" The government realized that there was a wartime manpower shortage and wanted to draft those who were categorized as enemy aliens. Their solution was as irrational and as cruel as the internment itself."
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