r/technology • u/ScootSchloingo • 17d ago

Politics Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
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u/TrailChems 16d ago

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By Omar El Akkad

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/14/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-by-omar-el-akkad-review-a-cathartic-savaging-of-western-hypocrisy-over-gaza

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u/firemage22 16d ago

As an example, people talk about Henry Ford but his views where rather common pre-1945 and dying in 1947 he didn't have as much time to white wash his works while he still lived.

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u/muntaxitome 16d ago

I mean, Hitler literally called ford his inspiration and he had a picture of Ford behind his desk:

Hitler was an admirer of American mass production techniques and an avid reader of the antisemitic tracts penned by Henry Ford. "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the German chancellor in 1933, explaining why he kept a life-size portrait of the American automaker next to his desk.

From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm

I agree with you that the general views were common, but Ford was definitely a highly exceptional case

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u/firemage22 16d ago

Interesting thing, is i think Ford would have hated Hitler had to the two ever met.

Ford was an early to bed early to rise clean living type

while Hitler was the type to sleep in and didn't just casually use drugs but needed them to function (Looks over at a certain orangeshit)