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[–] Ag47 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It seems like Ford gets a sort of pass from modern media and academics. I believe it is because if they attack him the way they do Hitler, it will only cause people who are able to do their own thinking to go out and read what the man actually said. Like you mentioned, they do throw the "anti-Semite" in there sometimes when mentioning him, but he still gets credit for his pioneering in automobiles and manufacturing.

Maybe they think we are far enough removed from that time period that people will not pay any mind to his writings. Yet, everything he wrote applies today.

For Hitler, on the other hand, they invented a mass genocide that they still benefit from and liken anyone who rejects their global government in favor of national sovereignty as Nazis, who allegedly slaughtered 6 million Jews, men, women and children.

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[–] Wonder_Boy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah, they don't want people looking under the Henry Ford rock, so they uphold the "genius industrialist" narrative. The "Anti-semite" smear is the second level defense for anyone curious enough to go looking a bit deeper. That'll shut down any further investigation with 95% of those people.