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What opinion could get you massively cancelled in 1923 and 1823? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a NYT report calling him out as an antisemite in the 1920's

Sure, but this was at a time where you could get antisemitic magazines delivered to your door, and some people had dozens. There really wasn't as much stigma on it as now (And I'd argue it could use a little more stigma still). There were lots of places around the world where you could discuss the latest details of antisemitism with your hairdresser, and it wouldn't even be that weird.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying there was stigma on it, I'm only saying it wasn't some alien idea that, just maybe, the Hitler guy might be shady.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The Dearborn Independent from Henry Ford was one of the most wildly distributed papers of its time due to the Ford dealer network and how Ford was lauded as a the hero that brought the car to rural folk giving them freedom.

It's unfortunate that his antisemitic views were often the main things one would find in his paper that many would have just accepted as fact. Ford a brilliant man in many ways but this was one of the few ways in which he wasn't.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There really wasn’t as much stigma on it as now (And I’d argue it could use a little more stigma still).

Any criticism of Israel is met with cries of "antisemitism!" so I think we have enough stigma.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That’s not stigma that’s false positive identification