content: Mr. Takei misunderstood Clarence Thomas' statement.    A careful reading of Justice Thomas's remarks will show that he was arguing that human dignity does not come from governments or men. Dignity is a measure of self-worth and is not given to you. His statements about slavery were a tribute to those men and women who maintained their sense of self-worth despite the horrors that inflicted upon them.    If anything, this statement should have resonated with someone like Mr. Takei who, as a prominent figure in the Gay Pride movement and a victim of Japanese internment under FDR, should recognize the truth that external degradations by persons or governments do not diminish one's worth as a human being. Instead he chose to take the Justice's words out of context and doubled-down in his ignorance by making a disgusting and hateful remark about the court's only black member.