Head of the ADL approvingly says of Elon Musk: "He's the Henry Ford of our time."

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In this clip, the head of THE ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE says, approvingly, of Elon Musk: “He’s the Henry Ford of our time.”

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"I'm hopeful it will go through," says @JGreenblattADL on @ElonMusk buying $TWTR. "To think what he could do with the public square...I'm hopeful he'll be able to apply his penchant for innovation to this company."
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Ford's Anti-Semitism | American Experience | PBS
Ford lent authority to the anti-Semitic fears and assumptions of many Americans.
8:30 AM · Oct 7, 2022

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/

Henry Ford's anti-Semitic views echoed the fears and assumptions of many Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anti-Semitism in America saw a change in expression and virulence when increased immigration from Europe brought millions of Jews to the U.S. during Ford's childhood in the latter half of the 19th century. It reached its peak during the mid-1920s: a time when Ku Klux Klanmembership had reached four million, Prohibition restricted alcohol consumption, and discriminatory immigration policies were enacted favoring immigrants from northern and western Europe over other parts of the world.

A close friend recalled a camping trip in 1919 during which Ford lectured a group around the campfire. He "attributes all evil to Jews or to the Jewish capitalists," the friend wrote in his diary. "The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy…"

In 1918, Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. A year and a half later, he began publishing a series of articles that claimed a vast Jewish conspiracy was infecting America. The series ran in the following 91 issues. Ford bound the articles into four volumes titled "The International Jew," and distributed half a million copies to his vast network of dealerships and subscribers. The rhetoric was not unusual for its content, as much as its scope. As one of the most famous men in America, Henry Ford legitimized ideas that otherwise may have been given little authority.

In 2012, American Experience interviewed Hasia Diner, the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History to ask her about Henry Ford's anti-Semitic views and the impact of his public expression of them. Diner is a prolific author and has written many books about American Jewish history, including her 2004 book, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000. Here are excerpts from her interviewwith

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Conservatives will probably think that is a compliment...

[Nevilledog]

4. The ADL guy was complimenting Musk.

[JohnSJ]

2. Henry Ford was a virulent anti-Semite

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Well Musk has vowed

Musk wants to make sure that Nazis get to tell their side of the story on Twitter too.

[maxsolomon]

5. Why is the head of the ADL even opining on Musk/Twitter?

What does it have to do with ADL?

Stay in your lane.

[dchill]

6. I do not get it.

[Solly Mack]

7. Ford's anti-semitism/admiration of Mussolini and Hitler were the first things that came to mind

upon reading the title of the thread.

So...

Alrighty then.

[PortTack]

9. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Behind the Aegis]

11. For most, it likely wouldn't be.

Frankly, I think this is a "scandal" because a Jew said it. Ford has been lauded by a number of people in regard to innovation. It doesn't take away from his nasty anti-Semitism, nor does it diminish the fact he revolutionized industry. Musk is also a grand tech revolutionary, it doesn't dimmish he is still a massively infected asshole.

[Solly Mack]

12. I listened to the clip. I know he meant Ford's innovative (mass assembly/assembly line) thinking in

business.

I'd have had the exact same thought had it been a gentile who said it.

I get what he meant.

Ford's bigotry does not erase his accomplishments in business. That is true.

Ford would not have been my go-to example is all.

And I think you're right in that it is garnering more attention because a Jewish person said it.

There are historical facts like names, dates, and even inventions and innovations - then there's the people's history.

For me, the people's history holds more weight. More consideration.

[uponit7771]

8. That wasn't approval

[marble falls]

10. And Mussolini made the trains run on time. Fascists are fascists and there's no good side to them.