Should FDR be removed from the dime?

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While I would prefer that our currency bear the visage of cultural figures rather than presidents, I see no need to single out Roosevelt...especially while Jackson is still floating around.

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Did thousands of Japanese die in those internment camps?

Japanese, no, but if you include everyone held under the WRA, it shakes out to roughly 2,000.



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Did thousands of Japanese die in those internment camps?

Japanese, no, but if you include everyone held under the WRA, it shakes out to roughly 2,000.



(Not making an argument for or against anything)

cite?

Hmm, it was hard to find an online source, but this website references Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress.

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I went ahead and bolded the relevant part.

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First off, let me make it clear that I believe the Japanese internment was a horrible thing that shouldn't have happened. However, though the conditions were bad for the Japanese they weren't bad enough to outright cause the deaths of people. I believe you're misleading the statistics a bit here.

1862 deaths out of a population of 120,313, over the four years the Japanese were interred, is a crude death rate of 16.15 per year; about equal to the United States at the time (not counting the war deaths o/c).

So yes, while the Japanese were horribly mistreated by being put into camps, there's really no evidence that the government's actions led to anyone's deaths (though it was still a horrible horrible policy).

I don't disagree with that.

Like I said above, I'm not making an argument for or against anything, and I'm certainly not trying to equate Japanese internment with the Trail of Tears, or the Holocaust, or whatever.  Lief asked if "thousands of Japanese died in those internment camps." Unless you want to quibble over 'thousands,' the answer is yes. 

How am I misusing the statistic?

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Yes because the idolatry of political leaders is bad.

Everybody idolatrizes the "founding fathers" and nobody finds it bad. Yet Roosevelt's role was at least as important.

That...doesn't really follow.