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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t wait for the FDR Memorial to be attacked. I’ll be there, crowbar in hand when that time comes. [/quote]

You're mad at FDR because he beat the Nazis?[/quote]

Funny how liberals and Democrats ignore a Democrat like FDR was one of the most racist Presidents of all time. FDR refused to host gold medal Olympian Jessie Owens.  FDR also cut out black people from many of the New Deal benefits. FDR put Japanese Americans in concentration camps. Under FDR's New Dealinitiatives coding Black neighborhoods as unsuitable for the new mortgages was an accepted practice.   Quit with the double standards liberals.  You're defacing Winston Churchill in the UK because he was a flawed character, do the same for FDR.
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You seem a little wound up about this subject.

Is it that he was so successful despite being a flawed person when your loser president is just flawed?[/quote]

Winston Churchill defeated the Nazis, but protesters involved are tearing him down.  FDR should be in the same boat. [/quote]

Was Churchill responsible for anything that might have happened in India around 1943 or so?[/quote]\

Churchill was a flaming racist like FDR, and he had significant impact on India:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill

Indeed, it is believed that Churchill was responsible for worsening a terrible famine in India in 1943, because he wanted food to be stockpiled for Europeans over people in India.

That's the problem when you go back and try to judge complex historical characters with modern purity tests. Great leaders who defeated the Nazis, like Churchill and FDR, wouldn't pass because of their previous racist policies.  When history looks back Obama, what will happen when people decide that he was a monster for massively expanding the US' drone war that led to the butchering of hundreds of civilians (including children)?  If we are going down this slippery slope of morality purity tests for historical figures, even MLK would fail the #metoo test.

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