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Re:Commenting vs. Making by reaperducer on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:39PM (#26215906)
Roosevelt’s Man in the Area quote sums this up well.

Roosevelt said, wrote, and did a lot of important and poignant things. I'm particularly fond of his speech about how we must stop being hyphenated Americans, and be just Americans. (He was railing against how the nation was balkanizing into "Italian-Americans" and "German-Americans" and "Irish-Americans.")

Sadly, he wasn't perfect. And modern-day internet revisionists who understand neither history, nor context, and expect perfection are rapidly erasing him, his words, and his deeds from history.

Re:Commenting vs. Making by blueline on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:28PM (#26220537)
What about the “context” of, say, Japanese American internment camps makes them something we should excuse Roosevelt for, if you don’t mind me asking?
Re:Commenting vs. Making by LaEc on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:49AM (#26221571)
Perhaps the fact that he died 20 years earlier.