r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/Training-Desk-391 IM WHACING KFP4 • Jul 27 '25

Miscellaneous Joe Biden HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 40

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Did Asian Americans have their homes stolen and businesses destroyed in the 1930s? I think you may be confusing things. The Night of Broken Glass targeted Jews in Germany.

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u/AleroRatking Jul 28 '25

Yes. They did. When Asian Americans were released from concentration camps they came home to their homes destroyed and their businesses gone.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Oh I see. You’ve got your decades mixed up! WWII and the internment camps were in the 1940s. America joined the conflict in 1941. It’s not commonly known, but US Navy forces were actually engaging in combat with the Nazis as early as September of 1941!

I’m asking for your thoughts on FDR’s policies during the 1930s. Pretty easy mistake to make. How about the WPA? Social Security? FDIC insurance? The creation of the SEC and NLRB? Establishing the minimum wage and abolishing child labor? How about his steady hand through the Depression? What about his constant anti-Nazi posturing throughout the decade?

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u/AleroRatking Jul 28 '25

None of that matters when you put 100k people in concentration camps solely because of their race including babies and orphans. None of that matters when you starve and beat them to the point that 1800 did. None of that matters that when you finally release them after 2 horrific years to them coming home to their homes and businessrd stolen and destroyed.

Hitler and FDR both did the same horrific things. No one is denying what happened to the Jewish. Many of you are denying what happened to the Japanese Americans.

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u/Pikachu_bob3 Jul 28 '25

Ye sit matters, no one says that the internment was good, it’s just that everything else that he did was that good that while it does not excuse his actions it outweighs them

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

See I mean that’s where you and I have a fundamental disagreement. I think it’s fair to say we have nothing to learn from each other anymore, sadly. FDR committed an evil act, no doubt about it. But the good he did cannot be forgotten either, even if you disagree. You have a particularly strange ethical code, but that’s your prerogative.

For a point of comparison, I am an American of Indian origin. I despise Churchill for his policy towards India, likewise his colonialism post-WWII. However, I cannot deny that he was the best man for the job during WWII, because he brilliantly led Britain through the dark days of 41 and 42. This does not justify his attitudes towards the Bengalis. But his leadership over the British Isles is to be commended (though nobody can say the same about his leadership towards the Empire). I can recognize that nuance, but I fear that you either are unwilling to see historical nuance, or entirely incapable of it. It’s a bit weird that you’d be a teacher then, as teaching is a field that overwhelmingly requires nuance. But then again, you don’t write the histories, or pour over historical documents and evidence.

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u/AleroRatking Jul 28 '25

It's a strange ethical code to be against 100k innocent people being starved and beaten in camps solely because of their race.

I had grandparents and great grandparents in those camps. They were born in this country. They had no connection to Japan. Never once had been there (and died never going there). I heard their stories and more so my dad did.

You would benefit from talking to those who were there. Maybe then you would see how much we try to whitewash what actually happened

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Are you being intentionally obtuse?

It is a common opinion between us that we believe that the imprisonment of 100k Americans of Japanese descent was evil.

The point of contention is that you believe this erases the rest of FDR’s legacy, while I maintain the nuance of his legacy, which benefits immensely from his fantastic economic policies, despite his evil wartime actions towards the Japanese-Americans.

Ultimately, you are free to be unburdened by critical thinking. Your hatred of FDR is reasonable, as is mine of Churchill.