Talk:Henry J. Kaiser/Archives/2018

Henry Ford was not pro-fascist

"Many leading industrialists, such as Henry Ford, were pro-Fascist and adamantly argued against the US entering the conflict until December 7, 1941."

First off, the original source is biased, and not a good source.

Secondly, there is no statements or anything by Henry Ford that would suggest he was pro-fascist, yes he was anti-semitic and yes he got a medal from Hitler, he did however get medals and praise from a lot of states and regimes. Ford was against government intervention in the economy and a republican, he did not support the New Deal which was basically a rehash of fascist policies by democrat politicians often pro-fascist themselves.

If Wikipedia is to be good for anything, we can't allow stuff like this to pass muster, I would recommend that the reference is removed until someone can actually provide a good source that show that Henry Ford was actually pro-fascist.

His peace ship venture and pacifism and isolationism are well known. EDIT: Ford even refused to sell Mussolini trucks after the invasion of Ethiopia even though Italy paid for them, he was called a "private sanctionist" Chronicler87 (talk) 17:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

See: Henry Ford#The coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse. The Banner talk 19:56, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

The Banner:

I don't consider the American Axis a really serious work either, there are other historians that disagree with Wallace and claim that Ford really had no control over it's German subsidiary from the start of the war in 1939.

That he did refuse to sell trucks to Mussolini is however a fact. And wasn't Edsel Ford in charge of Ford at this time anyway? With Henry Fords "collapse" etc, it gets very clouded at this point in time.Chronicler87 (talk) 20:46, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Self-published sources

Noting the discussion above, I see that a statement supported by a self-published book was removed from the article along with the citation to the reference. The source was the Glen Yeadon book, which was published by Lulu.com in 2008. (Lulu.com is on the link blacklist and so the link could not be provided here.) As such, it fails the reliable source test as a self-published book and shouldn't be used to support statements in the encyclopedia. The removal of the statement and its self-published source was appropriate. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:05, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I know of this rule but what made me wonder is that the book seems to have been "republished" or is published by something called the "Progressive Press", that describes themselves as "Conspiracy Realists" and only publish about the "New World Order", they obviously do not seem to be a serious publisher. But I didn't know if this rule applied in this case. I edited it out of the article because it was just so ludicrous to begin with, a book that accuses JP Morgan of being a Nazi before the Nazi party even existed should not be considered a good source. Chronicler87 (talk) 19:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I think "Progressive Press" is just a bookseller. See its website. I found the Yeadon book in a gBooks search, where it is listed as published by Lulu. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 19:55, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

From Amazon.com: "Publisher: Progressive Press; First Regular Edition edition (October 31, 2008)" Chronicler87 (talk) 20:50, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

• Whatever the status of that book may be, you changed the wording in the text, leaving the citation in the text, leaving the reader to think that a. that source verified that information and b. the source is good. In other words, your edit has nothing to do with the status of the book; you made it say something that I don't know it actually says. Whatever you are wanting to argue about the person, it will have to be done here, using reliable sources, and you can't do it in article space by simply changing the words. Drmies (talk) 21:04, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Drmies: I was actually about to do a second edit (with that realization), but I never got the chance because my edit was undone right away. The third edit I just removed the entire thing which I should have from the start.Chronicler87 (talk) 21:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)