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After a Trump surrogate used Japanese internment camps during WWII as “precedent” for a national Muslim registry, George Takei didn’t bat an eyelash in responding swiftly.

“Some sixty million Americans voted for Donald Trump, and I refuse to accept that most did so because of what he stands for, but rather despite it,” he wrote in an op-ed for The Daily Beast. “Trump’s supporters have an opportunity as well to blunt the harshest elements of his candidacy and now soon his presidency. They can do so first by not belittling or ignoring the real pain and fear that many Clinton supporters now feel and are expressing, but by standing up to any who would take their candidate’s election as a license to hate.”

“The Japanese-American internment was an egregious violation of our national values and principles, a terrible event for which Congress apologized in 1988,” he said to Hollywood Reporter. “To invoke that dark chapter as a precedent for any action against any minorities today is a morally bankrupt and dangerous step, completely out-of-bounds with contemporary notions of civil and human rights.”

George himself was in an internment camp in the United States after Pearl Harbor, which was the genesis of his hit Broadway show Allegiance.