Japanese Internment vs. Ignoring the AIDs Crisis

[Mr. Smith]

I love FDR and think that he was the best President America ever had, but yeah, internment was horrible. Still, giving it to the AIDs crisis because the end result was worse.

[Kingpoleon]

Just a reminder that Roosevelt could easily have ordered the death of all Japanese-Americans, and over fifty percent of the country supported wiping out everyone of Japanese blood.

At least Reagan's reaction to such a threat wasn't: "Jail all the gays!!!"

Even accepting your first paragraph as true (doubtful, even with the Korematsu decision there's no way the Supreme Court would've upheld an order for an actual genocide), your logic is as follows:

1-FDR could've done a lot worse than what he actually did.
2-Reagan didn't do the absolute worse possible response he could've given.
3-Therefore, Reagan was not as bad.

Yes, because the Supreme Court would have acted fast enough to stop a military order.

Please, someone read Higgins's post.

[SATW]

Just a reminder that Roosevelt could easily have ordered the death of all Japanese-Americans, and over fifty percent of the country supported wiping out everyone of Japanese blood.

At least Reagan's reaction to such a threat wasn't: "Jail all the gays!!!"

Even accepting your first paragraph as true (doubtful, even with the Korematsu decision there's no way the Supreme Court would've upheld an order for an actual genocide), your logic is as follows:

1-FDR could've done a lot worse than what he actually did.
2-Reagan didn't do the absolute worse possible response he could've given.
3-Therefore, Reagan was not as bad.

Yes, because the Supreme Court would have acted fast enough to stop a military order.

Please, someone read Higgins's post.

No point in arguing with the hacks. If a Democrat does it, it's less bad, didn't you know?

[vanguard96]

Nowadays a Chinese woman gets beaten by US customs and is awarded $146K+ the Japanese got 25 dollars and a bus ticket for 3+ years of forced internment. It's interesting when something happens en masse that you see this even in cases where the survivors are there making claims shortly thereafter.

In my book one is somewhat nebulous government action based partly out of racist stereotypes and a mischaracterization of the role of one person who the left hates vehemently on the other in a case of inaction exacerbated by further bigoted stereotypes. Of course the former also melds closely with the philosophy of an activist government and if one is to bring up the treatment of gays in Cuba in the 60s and 70s we are met with a rigorous defense and backpedaling when the American treatment of Japanese is closer to the former Cuban treatment of gays.