That's because you don't know your history.
Roosevelt was an avid eugenicist. Roosevelt was closely allied with Madison Grant and William Temple Hornaday, who founded the Bronx Zoo and put a black kid named Ota Benga in a zoo cage and displayed him as a subhuman species. The child later committed suicide.
Roosevelt wrote a glowing endorsement of Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race, which Hitler kept under his bed and referred to as his "Bible."
Roosevelt's endorsement: "The book is a capital book; in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts our people most need to realize. It shows an extraordinary range of reading and a wide scholarship. It shows a habit of singular serious thought on the subject of most commanding importance. It shows a fine fearlessness in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail. It is the work of an American scholar and gentleman; and all Americans should be sincerely grateful to you for writing it."
Opposition to scientific racism and eugenics was mainly raised by Christians at the time, and was dismissed by Grant as "sentimentality."
Roosevelt strongly opposed "unfit" races being freely available to reproduce, in keeping with Darwin's prescription in his book The Descent of Man, and he advocated for forced sterilization of those deemed unfit to reproduce.
He was a product of his time, and eugenics was mainstream thought back then. We shouldn't judge too harshly.
But Hitler got his ideas from the U.S. eugenics movement. Calling Roosevelt "Proto Hitler" is not altogether unfair.
Pictures below: Teddy Roosevelt at the St. Louis World's Fair, where African pygmies were put in a zoo display as "missing links" in evolution. Also pictured: the zoo display.
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Reminder that our “endless war” in the Middle East was 100% justified.
Can I just say… I despise this. Just two open wounds in downtown Manhattan that we failed to rebuild.
We could’ve built a beautiful 9/11 memorial and still built back the twin towers bigger and better than before. Instead we have these gaping holes, a monument to the weakness and incompetence of the people running NYC.
Honor the victims and REBUILD.
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There’s a reason women are standing in solidarity with a mother who strangled her three children. It’s because deep down, they know their own abortion procedures were not much different.
They desperately need their abortions to be ok. And so they excuse murder.
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If you thought my $20 burrito feast for my family of eight was nuts, this entire delicious meal cost me less than $10 from Aldi.
Keep whining, losers. I’m eating like a king over here
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I’ve experienced literally all of these things, and worse. I’ve been dirt poor. I’ve supplemented my hourly wage with Uber and pizza delivery to cover the bills. I’ve been to Aldi with the last $30 in my bank account thinking how on earth I would feed my family for a week. (beans and rice, btw) I’m doing better now, but struggled for many, years.
You forget—I didn’t say “you poors can just eat cheap slop.” I literally said “Hey guys, this is what we ate for dinner last night and it was great.” I’m not Marie Antoinette in this picture. I’m a normal person saying “here’s what I do, you can do it too” and it ENRAGES people.
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It’s what Charlie believed.
His crisis PR team wrote this after his disastrous speech yesterday, and they still couldn't manage a message that didn't totally suck
I think ending welfare for immigrants would solve most of our immigrant problem
Add to this the ability to denaturalize people who break their oath of citizenship.