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FDR on racism.
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The Refutation
Yes, that’s right. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the beloved hero president of progressives is a known racist. The quote in the meme above was actually made by Donald Trump on August 14, 2017, not by FDR.
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, FDR ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to be incarcerated in internment camps. That is 120,000 Americans that FDR imprisoned based solely on the color of their skin. That’s as bad as racism can get, and far, far worse than anything that President Trump has ever done that has caused him to be called a racist.
From the Wikipedia page on the internment of Japanese Americans:
The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese Americans. Those who were as little as 1/16 Japanese and orphaned infants with “one drop of Japanese blood” were placed in internment camps.
This was done by Executive Order 9066, signed by FDR on February 19, 1942. The Order was not suspended until December of 1944, when the Japanese prisoners were released almost three years later.
FDR could not have made the statement quoted in the meme, because clearly he did not believe that we all live under the same law, no matter the color of our skin. So given that FDR was a known racist, should we tear down the statue of him shown in the meme, located at the FDR Memorial in Washington DC? Should we tear the whole memorial down?
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