2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAdolph Trump says he's no racist -- FDR did it, too, with the Japanese.
And that's the one thing he's right about. FDR "did it." But "it" was a terrible, fearful, and racist thing.
People here who want to deify FDR should remember -- he led us out of the depression, instituted financial reforms that lasted for decades ,and was a giant figure for much of the 99%.
BUT he was also a racist and the person who ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during WW2.
http://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-muslims-temporarily-denied-entry-us-214140197.html
Trump showed little inclination to back down, however, and instead compared the proposed ban to actions taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt against Japanese and German "enemy aliens" during World War II, though he stopped short of advocating internment camps.
Asked in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program if his proposal went against treasured American values, he responded: "No, because FDR did it!"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)I wouldn't cite that terrible wrong as something to emulate.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)That interning Japanese Americans was a pretty horrible thing to do.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)I was referring more to those on this board. That said, Trump is really starting to disturb me. He was entertaining for a while, but he's turned into something darker recently. It's sad that so many people are willing to vote for him.
MrWendel
(1,881 posts)TheFarS1de
(1,017 posts)Where does that leave Hillary and her support of the Private Prison Industry ? By that logic Hillary is racist against AA . I would say your on very shaky ground with that statement .
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)It is false that she supports the private prison industry. She had a lobbyist law firm working for her who had many other clients, including private prisons.
Sharing an attorney with some other person or group doesn't connect you with that group.
You might as well argue that supporting FDR means you support his racism.
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)and it's the most wrong thing he ever did. So very strange that man under the hair.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Hillary wasn't.