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Your husband threw 100,000 Americans in concentration camps, Eleanor.
What do you think Eleanor had to do with it?
Would you stay married to a person who threw 100,000 innocent people into concentration camps? I wouldn't. Given this quote, it doesn't appear that Eleanor practices what she preaches.
Id go as far as to say FDR was an objectively worse person than McCarthy. Communism is a choice. Japanese descent is not. Blacklisting, while horrible, is not as bad as having your property seized and being thrown in a concentration camp.
Know a lot about marriage in 1942? Or Eleanor Roosevelt?
I know that the US lead the world in number of divorces as early as 1916
I know that quote makes her a huge fucking hypocrite if she stayed married to a man who seized the property of 100,000 innocent people and sent them to concentration camps
in statesia women could not have bank accounts without male cosigners until 1974
It's more nuanced than that and you know it
Eleanor Roosevelt was substantially richer than her husband, and became a UN delegate in 1945. She would have been fine. This isn't a woman who would have ended up eating cat food, even back then.
Well, when time changes your mind, it’s okay.
You are arguing with someone that thinks Obama and Bush are the exact same.
Time is never going to convince me that throwing 100,000 American citizens in concentration camps was anything other than horrendous and unforgivable.
It won’t, but you might develop some new insights about marriage or Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sure. And while I'm doing that, perhaps you can consider that people might disagree with you for reasons other than ignorance, and work on that arrogant self righteous thing you've got going on.