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Extremely rare Karen subspecies liken ICE detentions to WWII-era Japanese internment
This, ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you as a bona fide expert in the field of Karenology, is an extremely rare find — the kind a scholar can only hope to find in the field perhaps once in his entire career.
Asians, as a rule of thumb, are notably very un-Karenlike in their disposition; because social harmony and respect for social structures rank at the top of the hierarchy of cultural values, they are as unlikely to complain about their Starbucks order as they are to vocalize histrionic political statements for attention and social clout.
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Among those raised in the West, though, there are rare exceptions to the rule who are happy to adopt Social Justice™ ideology.
Case in point: in much the same way that the BLM people and their Deep State rainbow revolution sponsors in 2020 parlayed a fentanyl addict overdosing on the street in Minneapolis into a resurrection of the 1960s civil rights movement — only much more violent and destructive, as intended — Portland’s NBC affiliate found a handful of descendants of Japanese people interned during World War II willing to denounce ICE immigration enforcement measures as “exactly the same” as the internment of 120,000 Japanese residents ordered by FDR.
Via KGW8 (emphasis added):
It has been 84 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and immigrants.
As part of Japanese Internment Remembrance Week, hundreds gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland to reflect on that period of history, which they said draws parallels to the Trump administration’s current immigration policy.
KGW spoke with Joni Kimoto, who was four years old when she and her family were forced from their home during World War II.
“I was interned in 1942,” Kimoto said. “I spent four months at the Portland Assembly Center and then I was sent to Minidoka, Idaho, in an internment camp. We were there for two to three years.”
She said that lived experience informs her position today, denouncing the actions of ICE.
“It is parallel. It is exactly the same,” Kimoto said. “Our government is forcibly taking people away from their lives and putting them, without due process of law, into places that they shouldn’t be, into detention.”
Portland City Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane’s family was also interned during the war.
“They went to Topaz, Utah, and Gila River, Arizona, and so much of what we saw at that time is being repeated again. It’s really important that we are coming out and standing up and saying that ‘never again’ actually means right now,” Koyama Lane said.
Sunday’s event included musical tributes and candlelight vigils as forms of remembrance.
“I think this is just a really important day for the Japanese American community, and we have a voice based on the stories from our history that really need to be shared,” said Fumiaki Tosu of Portland.
Rallygoers then marched to the ICE facility and back in protest of the Trump administration.
“Keep your faith. Be resilient and look forward to a better day because it will come,” Kimoto said.
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Anti-ICE Karen fantasizes about hiding illegals in basement like Anne Frank
Moving right along here with the theme of citing historical horrors for added emotional weight to political rhetoric, imagine the level of depravity we’ve reached in society where it occurs to a person that what they ought to do with their time is head down into their basement and make a TikTok video explaining their urge to hide illegal immigrants there so that their followers can affirm in the comments section what a great person they are.
Mind you, she’s not actually hiding illegals in her basement; she just wants you to know that hiding illegals in her basement was the first thing that occurred to her while touring her new house, because she’s a good person.
Anti-ICE Karen fantasizes about holing up illegals in her new basement from the government pic.twitter.com/alDRSvV1zF
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 21, 2026
Flashback: The original anti-ICE Karen heyday
Long before they took to the streets to defend illegal immigrants from the long arm of the law — after the American public overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump to enforce the law in a classic exercise of Democracy™, which they ironically have no appreciation for despite preening as the guardians of said Democracy™ against lITeRaL fAsCiSm for years — the anti-ICE Karens reigned supreme for years during COVID.
You know that scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when the kid found the golden ticket in his chocolate and ran through the streets giddy as a schoolgirl?
That’s how every Karen in the land felt on the first day of lockdowns.
The brutal enforcement of nonsense social orthodoxy for the state under the guise of protecting society (a surrogate for their children) from literal fascists (meaning anybody who didn’t to wear a mask on an airplane) is what they were built for — their raison d'être.The anti-ICE thing only lasted a couple of months at most and already seems to be fizzling out; the COVID tyranny they gleefully served as the foot soldiers for went on for years and years.
It’s easy to forget the nightmare as so much has transpired since the heady days of 2020-23, but we must never forget what dystopian hell they unleashed, screaming at shoppers in Target™ — like this one, literally, according to her, named Karen.
Never forget what hell the Karens unleashed on the American public during COVID pic.twitter.com/v4tbPtjgLi
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 21, 2026
Happier than a pig in slop, that one.
It’s never been quite the same for the Karens since.
Rest assured, they’ll discover a new cause du jour to riot over at some point, but they might never again ascend to the peak of their power during COVID.
