I’ve been led to believe that Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism was just a byproduct of the times he lived in. That this was a common ordinary belief among US citizens at that time.
Along the same lines as blacks should be separate but equal and women belong at home.
“I’ve been led to believe that Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism was just a byproduct of the times he lived in.”
Yep, that is what history tells us. But it won’t stop multitudes from posting on this site, condemning anti-semitism.
Anti-semitism is just one form of many, and sometimes murderous, hatreds.
About twenty Christians were slaughtered last year in Texas as they worshiped, but that means nothing when someone can cover themselves in righteousness at the opportunity to condemn anti-semitism.
For all his faults, and we all have faults, no one in American history has bettered the life of the entire nation as did Ford.
I remember reading a blurb Napoleon Hill wrote about Ford. He said that Ford was the only person in the United States who could pick up a phone and defeat the moneyed interest on Wall Street. He did not really develop that thought any further.