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[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.

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

This is the point, actually.

Every statue that has been toppled, every street that has been renamed, every school that has been renamed, every individual who has been slandered by those wanting to rewrite history has been a flawed individual.  And, so is FDR, MLK, Obama, and every other individual that the left lionizes. 
But, that doesn't mean that they haven't done good things.

These short sighted, free speech hating protesters choose to focus on negative things and forget about any positive they brought into the world.

I predict, at this rate, it will only be 2 generations or so before all MLK Blvds, all MLK statues, and all MLK buildings will be torn down or renamed because he was such a flawed individual.  They will find something in his past to cause outrage.  Just give it time.  [/quote]
Your math is terrible (and your history seems tinged by right wing “scholarship.” https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/soc_sec/hgreat.htm)

FDR wasn’t atypically racist for the time. He wasn’t cruel for cruelty’s sake. There’s no defense for putting Japanese Americans in internment camps. But he got us through the Depression and most of the way through WWII, all while doing great things for America and being a smart, learned man.

Christopher Columbus, in the other hand, what do you have? He got lost trying to find a shortcut to the east and ended up in the Bahamas, where he kicked off a several hundred years’ campaign of cruelty against the people who were already here (thereby negating his “discovery”) so terriblethat he was imprisoned for it. Brutal rapes. Killing basically for sport. Can you not see why he shouldn’t be honored? He didn’t do anything worth honoring! If you want to be euro-centric about it and pretend that the America’s weren’t already populated, give credit where it’s due and honor Leif Erickson. [/quote]

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