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CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)I find him pretty embarrassing...
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(10,000 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)He makes the Top Ten Bigots list!
The founder of the modern American automotive industry was also the 1920s king of American anti-Semitism. Henry Ford is best known for being the inventor of the assembly line method of manufacturing automobiles, but he was also an avid fan of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the famous Russian anti-Semitic forgery. He was so convinced of its authenticity that he published it in serial form in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. He later took the Independents Articles and published them as a book, The International Jew: The Worlds Foremost Problem. In it, Ford blamed the Jews for everything from pornography to alcoholism to communism and beyond. The book proved to be rather popular, and was especially so in 1930s Germany; so much that Adolf Hitler himself awarded Ford a medal, and Ford is the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf. The book has recently proved to be popular with Islamic radicals, who use it in their preaching against Israel by portraying the country as part of a Jewish plot to destroy Islam.
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(19,768 posts)Had to throw a quart of oil in with every trip, but I liked that little car.
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(53,475 posts)kentuck
(111,094 posts)Robert Ford.