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The people on the right side of history in WWII locked up their own citizens based on their ethnic heritage.



Quite. The UK also had a formal censorship regime; America managed with an informal one voluntarily carried out by media organisations: https://censorshipissues.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/censorship...

(See the varied career of William Joyce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw from informing against the IRA to British fascism to German propaganda broadcaster; he was eventually hanged for treason.)


FDR's track record on individual rights is rather poor. Seizure of gold, censorship, and internment come to mind.




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