Checkmate, True Leftists

[WVdemocrat]

"FDR was a neoliberal racist warmonger." - True Leftists, probably

Well, yeah, that's pretty much historical fact

Stop. Please.

Can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen imo.

No, no. This is a thread about FDR, not Harry Truman... though it is easy to mix them up, as they are both neoliberal genocidal warmonger racists.

A neoliberal woudln't have created the CCC or vetoed Taft-Hartley.

If he wasn't a neoliberal then how come he didn't abolish private property in its entirety?!

Why, might I ask, is President Roosevelt a neoliberal genocidal warmonger racist?

I'll try:

1) Neoliberal - Obviously, this makes no sense.

2) Genocidal - Nothing comes to mind.

3) Warmonger - As I recall, Adolf Hitler began WW2, and FDR did not start any wars during his presidency.

4) Racist -

[WVdemocrat]

"FDR was a neoliberal racist warmonger." - True Leftists, probably

Well, yeah, that's pretty much historical fact

Stop. Please.

Can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen imo.

No, no. This is a thread about FDR, not Harry Truman... though it is easy to mix them up, as they are both neoliberal genocidal warmonger racists.

A neoliberal woudln't have created the CCC or vetoed Taft-Hartley.

If he wasn't a neoliberal then how come he didn't abolish private property in its entirety?!

Why, might I ask, is President Roosevelt a neoliberal genocidal warmonger racist?

I'll try:

1) Neoliberal - Obviously, this makes no sense.

2) Genocidal - Nothing comes to mind.

3) Warmonger - As I recall, Adolf Hitler began WW2, and FDR did not start any wars during his presidency.

4) Racist -

Number four is certainly not outrageous, given that he vetoed anti-lynching legislation, appointed a Klansman to the Supreme Court and ordered the internment of an entire ethnic group...  If someone with an R next to his name had done any of those three, he'd be demonized as one of the true monsters of American history, regardless of his economic "accomplishments."

Like Skill and Chance said, times have changed. He's racist by modern standards, but back then things were different.

On Hugo Black, I believe he later repented against his youthful support of the KKK. And on the internment of Japanese Americans, eh...I can't really defend that. I mean, I imagine with another global war beginning and with the attack on Pearl Harbor, that it was a very scary time, so I guess that helps not to justify it, but to understand why it was done.

[WVdemocrat]

Throwing the racist grenade at FDR, Truman, or Eisenhower is so ridiculous it hardly warrants a response.

Yeah. If they're racist, then so is every president before LBJ. But saying that would be ridiculous.