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[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago

yeah, pretty sure he was a nazi

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

He was most definitely a Nazi

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago

I heard in a Citations Needed episode that he funded schools so they would teach country music and tap dancing to children to suppress the cultural permeation of jazz music and some other non-white genre.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Exactly. He despised jazz and black Americans. That cultural permeation of tap dancing still remains to this day in fact.

[-] ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Damn now I know why that stupid fucking dance has such a large cultural cachet

[-] FistOfTheRedStar@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I thought he hated country to? I was under the impression he funded squaredancing since country music was to socialists, which successfully undermined that cultural movement.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I don't have a primary source but:

In order to bring his dream to life, Ford poured tons of money into square dancing and country music in general.

From https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy

[-] cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's quite a bit more about his Nazi ties in this article by Losurdo.

[-] BelieveRevolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Kind of a chicken and the egg thing, since his anti-Semitic book The International Jew influenced the Nazis.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Nazism and it’s tenants have existed for a long time, the Nazis just gave the concentrated ideology a name.

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