• edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    2 months ago

    Ford motor company keeping up it’s proud traditions. For those that don’t know, Henry Ford was a card carrying Nazi and was Hitler’s personal hero.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
      29·
      2 months ago

      Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish people.
      (Wikipedia)

      That’s sonofabitch is the reason we had to square dance in gym class!? The fuck, man.

      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        2 months ago

        This is the kinda shit we’re talking about when we say things like square dancing in schools is inherently racist, because it fucking was, and this kinda shit shows up in nearly every aspect of daily Americana life.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      Makes me think about getting rid of the one I have. But can’t afford payments and not sure I can get enough sellit to buy something else without payments.

      • Shyze3D@feddit.nl
        8·
        2 months ago

        Getting rid of your current Ford won‘t make a huge difference except for when they still make money out if it.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Read an article a few years back. Apparently Fords are pretty cheap to repair but have a pretty bad track record for breaking.

    • hector@lemmy.today
      6·
      2 months ago

      Nazi complicitizing roots. They were active in helping nazis and their ilk. Too afraid of the commies and reform, they wanted to put fascists in charge in the US that would’ve ended up destroying them and or the prosperity that made them great in the first place.