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Kasz216 on 13 November 2008
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Final-Fan said:

I think the world is too complicated to work out a formula on what exactly it would take to make someone's bad actions completely poison my opinion of him no matter what good he did. I'll take it on a case by case basis thank you very much, and the internment is extremely troubling to me and lowers my opinion of FDR quite a bit but does not completely poison it. (But I do hate Andrew Jackson.)  Censorship troubles me also but I am inclined to judge FDR there against other presidents during major wars which makes him look a lot better.

I, in turn, would like to know why exactly the "wrongful" in "wrongful imprisonment" makes the imprisonment equivalent to slavery when rightful imprisonment is not. Or is it "okay" slavery because they committed a crime?

In any case, I think it was very poor word choice when you supported your argument that FDR is racist by saying that he "practically enslaved" Japanese Americans, when you mean that he wrongfully imprisoned them and you believe all wrongful imprisonment is practically slavery.

What's the real difference between imprisonment in slavery?

Is not the greatest loss in both the loss of freedom?

Slavery is not much worse then knowing false imprisonment in my book.

I mean... look at community service.  What is community service but "slavery" for committing a crime?

Or win soemone is sentenced to "Hard time"  Aka Penal Labor.  (Though i don't think the US does that on an involentary basis anymore... when they did i believe it was just the south anyway.)