Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Popularize Charcoal Briquets

Re:Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Populariz... by EdwardDiego on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:14PM (#39160837)

There's a spectrum of horror when it comes to beliefs. And how much suffering they are related to is important. And I can discern "considered horrible now, but culturally normal for the time".

Something like Hemingway's misogyny is gross, but culturally common at the time, and no-one who read his books tried to murder all the women. Not that he's a personal hero.

Ford buying a newspaper just to warn people about the International Jewry that started WW1 wasn't culturally normal outside of certain far-right groups.

And most likely the future will judge my beliefs a bit, I support the rights of women to access abortion. I'm sure in a few hundred years, abortion will be viewed as a crude intervention only practiced because our medicine was so primitive.

Or my belief that human rights are more important than animal rights.

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Re:Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Populariz... by refurb on Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:05PM (#39162462)

> WW1 wasn't culturally normal outside of certain far-right groups.

That's absolutely not true. Anti-semitism was prevalent in the mainstream in the early 20th century. Not all that different than racism against blacks.

Hell, look at surveys in part of Europe. Anti-semitism is a sizeable minority now. Imagine what it was like a century ago.

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