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And you're wrong. They are 100% legitimate criticisms of the New Deal era and to deny that is a completely absurd stance. This reads to me like you're just doubling down on defending them.
I don't see us as being on the same perspective of the matter at all. You don't think Japanese Internment as a valid point to criticize the New Deal era over and I do. But then you also say you don't support it. I have no idea how to make sense of, "criticism of [thing] is not legitimate, but also, I oppose [thing]." It's self-contradiction.
If I had to guess, maybe you're interpreting "legitimate criticism" as meaning, "proving that the thing was bad," as opposed to "proving that the thing had bad aspects." I'm not entirely sure what the perspective or thesis of the person I originally replied to even is, exactly, and my acknowledgement that the bad things done during the New Deal era is in no way endorsing whatever they're arguing. The assumption that it is in some way doing that, assuming that's what's going on here, is something I find cancerous to discourse. Just because I disagree with someone's overall perspective doesn't mean I'm required to fight them on every single point and just because you can find a few points of evidence to support a position that doesn't prove your position correct.
There is legitimate criticism of every era and every person (especially every world leader) in history. That doesn't necessarily mean the criticism is "damning." If that's what's going on here, then allow me to politely ask you to cut that shit out immediately. If that's not what's going on, then I legitimately have no idea wtf you're trying to say with, "It isn't legitimate to criticize the thing I oppose."