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You keep arguing that the japanese internment camps were horrible. No one disagrees with you man. No one is saying "the camps weren't that bad".
All anyone is saying is that there are many, many presidents that have done far worse on racial issues (which I named earlier), so calling FDR "one of the most racist presidents" is an incorrect characterization.
There is a very big difference in historical terms between saying "racist President" and "one of the most racist Presidents".
The internment camps were awful but they don’t bring him anywhere near the likes of Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, or Woodrow Wilson.
FDR also created a black cabinet, banned racial discrimination in defense industries, and would have supported the anti lynching bill if not for his reliance on southern democratic support
