Any Ford owners on this forum? Henry Ford published antisemitic newspaper articles well after the brand was established. Quite a step up from a hand gesture.
Yes, old Henry was a chief proponent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Out of curiosity, would ya’ll boycott your local library if it owned this title? Once I ordered it for our library’s collection because we owned more than one book that responded to The Protocols but didn’t own The Protocols itself. That seemed silly and excessively delicate to me.
I have no issue with providing access to knowledge, even if the ideas themselves are pretty reprehensible in my view. The
context in which the knowledge is presented is important though. A copy of the Protocols should contain some information about how it was used (particularly in how Hitler's Mein Kampf cribbed large sections of it), and should contain at least some reference to the many, many ways that the whole document was debunked and proven thoroughly false.
Qanon is pretty much a modernized and rebranded protocols of Zion. Adenochrome is modern blood libel, the shadowy cabal controlling everything stays the same, there are lurid hints of anti-Christian cultish behaviour being behind all evil. Maybe if people had a better understanding of the history of the lies of the Protocols of Zion they would have been better prepared to reject the laughably stupid Qanon stuff.
Access to knowledge (even evil knowledge) is not an issue. Acting upon that knowledge is where you run into problems. Like, our library carries Vin Diesel movies. They are a known evil, but carrying them doesn't make the library evil. Even renting one wouldn't make a person evil. Enjoying it and then reporting the greatness of Vin Diesel would cross a dark line though.
