Why does owning a Tesla make you a Nazi and owning a Ford doesn't?

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Wasn't Henry Ford an actual Nazi sympathizer who had his own antisemitic newspaper?

 

[millais]

The links go deeper. He was given an award by the National Socialist government, and they had Ford factories in Germany manufacturing cargo trucks for the German war effort.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Ford is dead and cannot have bad opinions anymore, while Musk is alive and therefore can.

 

[Le b0wski]

It's like Fanta not being the nazi flavor anymore.

 

[dick brain]

Because Ford is not the Current Thing.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

because XB coupe that's why

I've been a Ford guy for decades up till current day I don't care what some farmer wrote 100 years ago he had exactly zero input into anything modern really

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

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.

and if you want to actually read them The International Jew is available here to download.

https://archive.org/details/internationaljew12unse

 

[Kosher Dill]

I dunno, Ford has really been phoning in the antisemitism ever since they stopped offering pig-leather seats.