Until Hitler, the swastika was a multi-cultural good luck or sun symbol. Many early auto parts (and all kinds of other stuff) bore swastikas. Check out the Krit brand of automobile built in Destroit.
Posted on 02/07/2019 5:29:02 AM PST by SJackson
/It’s not exactly news that Ford was an anti semite.
Yeah, I’ve seen that on TV documentaries about Ford. How is this news and why fire someone over it? Maybe there’s more to the story.
Believe what you want to believe. ;-)
When I was a history major back in the 80’s word on the street was that if you wrote a scholarly, well-researched and documented piece on the darker aspects of Andrew Carnegie that the Carnegie Foundation would cut you a check to NOT publish it.
Ford’s anti-Semitism is widely known and well-documented.
Part of me wonders if it was a factor in convincing so many Muslims to settle in Dearborn.
I believe all three complete volumes of Henry Fod’s collected writings are on-line at:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_International_Jew
Bon appetit!
Ford even found it necessary to denounce jazz as a Jewish plot.
However, this plus the throw-in about Pittsburgh make me think this is another attempt to use "right wing anti-Semitism" (which they call "traditional anti-Semitism") to distract from left wing anti-Semitism.
Also, opposition to anti-Semitism has nothing to do with "diversity" or "inclusion." It has to do with submission to G-d and His election of `Am Yisra'el.
Early Model T Fords were stamped with a Nazi swastika on the steering column. When Hitler nearly conquered the world, the practice was ended.
I know this because I saw it on a friend’s Model T. When I expressed my amazement at Ford’s anti-Semitism, he allowed me to borrow his copy of the Model T encyclopedia.
I learned Ford was a madman, and it wasn’t only his Nazi support that proved his lunacy...
I just completed a thorough search of the internet, and could not find a single article or image that verifies that fact. Apparently, our Internet Overlords did a fine job of erasing Ford’s past.
“It’s an ugly side of the patriarch of one of America’s greatest families and founder of one of its best-known companies,” writes McGraw.
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Fired for expressing truth. Censorship has gone viral in Michigan.
Booker T. Washington one said, “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
It seems that the majority in Michigan have embraced “the religion that should not be named”, and now support that religion’s foundation declaration of anti-semitism.
Until Hitler, the swastika was a multi-cultural good luck or sun symbol. Many early auto parts (and all kinds of other stuff) bore swastikas. Check out the Krit brand of automobile built in Destroit.
Was Ford’s anti-semitism more anti-globalism?
Disgusting bump
No. It was specific Jew-hate. He even hated jazz music because Jews were involved.
I wonder too. He was a great man but also advanced a sort of paternalism that smelled a little too much like socialism for me. I don’t know I would fault Ford for Dearbornistan though. LOL.
And FDR made comments as well that were none to kind to Jews, so....
Confusing yes.
Here's a couple. You can find it on plumbing fixtures and appliances of the time. A popular symbol worldwide for millenia, it was very popular in Germany post wwi. The Nazi party adopted it in 1920, the Model T was made until 1927, so it's possible it was used by Ford with that connection. Or a coincidence. Don't know.
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