Regarding Star Trek and concentration camps in the USA, let’s not forget George Takei’s childhood experience of being kept in one just because of his ethnicity. It’s not really a new concept.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x04 - "Watcher"
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Excellent point. People often forget about Japanese detention (and that it was in part instigated by white-owned corporate agricultural businesses seeking to use white supremacy and the veneer of law to steal Japanese-owned farms). TOS literally co-starred a concentration camp survivor.
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Abolishing ICE is one step forward out of the postindustrial dark ages. Free all 10,000 children from concentration cages and dismantle these barbaric institutions. Make it so. If this offends you then it kinda sounds like you've never watched Star Trek but okay
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Edited to add: I'm not sure what words y'all think I put here but they certainly aren't defending EITHER primary party, nor the concept of a bipartisan system at all. I oppose the party system in general. READ WITH YOUR EYES YOU BUNCH OF MORALLY BANKRUPT BAJORAN WORKERS
Abolishing ICE is one step forward out of the postindustrial dark ages. Free all 10,000 children from concentration cages and dismantle these barbaric institutions. Make it so. If this offends you then it kinda sounds like you've never watched Star Trek but okay
IDIC
Edited to add: I'm not sure what words y'all think I put here but they certainly aren't defending EITHER primary party, nor the concept of a bipartisan system at all. I oppose the party system in general. READ WITH YOUR EYES YOU BUNCH OF MORALLY BANKRUPT BAJORAN WORKERS
The director's cut of the episode must now insert the Enterprise theme into this scene. Has to.
If Q's powers didn't work on Picard's ancestor does that mean that Laris and her superiors are more powerful than the Q?
LA buses do run on very long roads
There was a (big) difference between Concentration Camps and POW camps.
Depends on who was running the POW camps. I’ve heard some pretty harrowing tales from Vietnam vets who were former POW’s that were fortunate to get home alive. It wasn’t all Hogan’s Heroes.
The Japanese camps were pretty horrific from what I've read.
Indeed so. The Japanese soldiers often had competitive beheadings of their prisoners for sport and worked them to early mass graves. Many years ago, I recall reading about an account (during the Raping of Nanking incident) where there was a German citizen present, representing the Nazi party in the region, like an exchange program between the Axis powers, who witnessed the atrocities committed upon the Chinese civilians by the Japanese soldiers. He sent a letter directly to Hitler asking him why they allied themselves with such barbarians, urging him to break the alliance. Puts a lot of things in perspective to read about something like that. I believe he engaged in his own Schindler’s List-like activities, trying to help Chinese people escape from the occupying force there.
Yeah I remember reading about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Rosen_(1895–1961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Safety_Zone
There were several foreign citizens in the area that helped.
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If you are talking about "The Deer Hunter,"
From Wikipedia article in my above link: One of the most talked-about sequences in the film, the Viet Cong's use of Russian roulette with POWs, was criticized as being contrived and unrealistic since there were no documented cases of Russian roulette in the Vietnam War. Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war, wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "In its 20 years of war, there was not a single recorded case of Russian roulette ... The central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie."
Cimino (the Director) countered that his film was not political, polemical, literally accurate, or posturing for any particular point of view. He further defended his position by saying that he had news clippings from Singapore that confirm Russian roulette was used during the war (without specifying which article).
Glenn Close was in Paradise Road, not The Deer Hunter.
they were literally called the same. But yes, of course in retrospect there was a huge difference between POW concentration camps and extermination concentration camps (and plenty of other variations in between).
Google is fucking useless.
I don't know if this was ever true, or if it's still true...
In the final season of Orange is the New Black, the Immigration Detainees were only held in Jail while waiting for a court date to stay in America, but were allowed to leave Jail and return to their country of origin whenever they got tired of living in a cell and treated like an animal.
I don't know if this was ever true, or if it's still true...
In the final season of Orange is the New Black, the Immigration Detainees were only held in Jail while waiting for a court date to stay in America, but were allowed to leave Jail and return to their country of origin whenever they got tired of living in a cell and treated like an animal.
It is true now... unless they have committed a crime (of which this being a repeat attempt at illegally entering the US is one of)
John Rabe - that's the one! Thank you for finding that. His name has eluded me for years.
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