(reference to George Takei & use of the term "Japanese internment camps")
Karen: He said if it were a Japanese internment camp, that means that it was run by the Japanese. But it was not. It was an American concentration camp.
Karen: He said if it were a Japanese internment camp, that means that it was run by the Japanese. But it was not. It was an American concentration camp.
Language has to matter. Just like people were not slaves, they were enslaved people. Slavery happened but the folks... were enslaved, they were not slaves.
I say, we're not minorities, we're the global majority. I'm super hypersensitive, when I hear 'As minorities...'. No, were not. Because when you start to repeat that, it becomes apart of your language and it just rolls off your tongue and becomes a natural thing until you know better.
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