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In reply to the discussion: Love it when AOC pushes Wingnuts' buttons; not so much mine about FDR [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)That the New Deal was an initiative that supported institutionalized racism by excluding people of color.
White fragility on full display here. Interpreting observations of racism as a personal insult against poor pitiful white people.
The WPA also discriminated against people with disabilities and provoked a protest by a group called the League of the Physically Handicapped. Part of the labor regulations that were enacted at the time is the one that allows goodwill to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.
I benefit from the new deal as amended in 1956. The original law passed in 1935 was limited to benefit white non-disabled men. The same can be said for labor laws which also permitted discrimination based on sex. That was standard then, and it doesn't excuse the failure to disrupt. The only thing more frustrating is the insistence that all of the flaws and facts should be disregarded in a rigid loyalty to my country, party, FDR right or wrong.