• edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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    Ford motor company keeping up it’s proud traditions. For those that don’t know, Henry Ford was a card carrying Nazi and was Hitler’s personal hero.

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      Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish people.
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      That’s sonofabitch is the reason we had to square dance in gym class!? The fuck, man.

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        This is the kinda shit we’re talking about when we say things like square dancing in schools is inherently racist, because it fucking was, and this kinda shit shows up in nearly every aspect of daily Americana life.

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      Nazi complicitizing roots. They were active in helping nazis and their ilk. Too afraid of the commies and reform, they wanted to put fascists in charge in the US that would’ve ended up destroying them and or the prosperity that made them great in the first place.