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[–] Big_Farto@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean Henry Ford is no saint either

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

yeah, pretty sure he was a nazi

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He was most definitely a Nazi

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I heard in a Citations Needed episode that he funded schools so they would teach country music and tap dancing to children to suppress the cultural permeation of jazz music and some other non-white genre.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. He despised jazz and black Americans. That cultural permeation of tap dancing still remains to this day in fact.

[–] ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Damn now I know why that stupid fucking dance has such a large cultural cachet

[–] FistOfTheRedStar@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought he hated country to? I was under the impression he funded squaredancing since country music was to socialists, which successfully undermined that cultural movement.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have a primary source but:

In order to bring his dream to life, Ford poured tons of money into square dancing and country music in general.

From https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy

[–] cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's quite a bit more about his Nazi ties in this article by Losurdo.

[–] BelieveRevolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kind of a chicken and the egg thing, since his anti-Semitic book The International Jew influenced the Nazis.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Nazism and it’s tenants have existed for a long time, the Nazis just gave the concentrated ideology a name.