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Then criticizing those things would be legitimate. To disagree that there's legitimate criticism regarding those issues is to condone them.
The fact that there were other factors pushing relatively progressive figures to do fucked up stuff doesn't mean that the stuff they did wasn't fucked up or that they shouldn't be criticized for it. The New Deal/Great Society era was a progressive era but it was also very imperfect and it's valid to critique the ways in which it failed certain groups of people.
I'd also point out that it cuts both ways, in addition to the factors pushing them towards regressive policies, their progressivism was also somewhat attributable to external factors. Even FDR wasn't really so much of a believer in "big government," in fact there were times when he tried to roll back aspects of the New Deal during the Depression. He was just someone who was responsive to the conditions of the time and willing to deviate from economic orthodoxy in order to respond to crises. Had FDR been president during different conditions, he might have been an unremarkable president, or perhaps he might have pushed for progressive policies but been stopped by institutional forces. The threat posed by communism may have also contributed to such reforms being implemented and permitted, out of a sense of self preservation.
I'm down to look at history through that lens, but if we're gonna do that we have to do it consistently, not just with regards to people we like doing bad things.
If what you meant by "legitimate criticisms" was to say that criticism of these policies themselves is legitimate, that's an extremely confusing way to say it given the context (both previous comments and the first part of your own comment), it very much sounds like you were saying something entirely different. I don't think it's fair to assume that someone objecting to your statement is objecting to that meaning of it.
It's legitimate to criticize the policies and the people who implemented them for implementing them. As Ronald Reagan agreed and Carter's commission found, internment was motivated by racism and was not a response to a legitimate national security threat. Apparently, this has somehow become controversial to say.
I think you'd have a really hard time finding someone on Lemmy genuinely trying to argue Japanese internment was a good thing, there's no need to immediately jump to the conclusion that people are saying that especially if it makes way more sense that they were saying something else.
I said that criticizing Japanese internment was legitimate, and they replied, "No it isn't." How else am I possibly supposed to interpret that?
By asking for clarification instead of jumping to some inflammatory assumptions. I was civil to you, and made no accusations against your character. Yet you were very quick to attack my character. Would you please refrain from such incivility in the future?