It is extremely difficult to be unbiased when critically examining the opinions and ideas of someone who you dislike, or who holds at least one opinion or idea that is wholly opposed to what you believe.
Henry Ford, a vehement anti-Semite, and Nazi sympathizer, had many interesting and potentially valid ideas around the good treatment and payment of workers to increase industrial out-put and stimulate the economy, the interaction of industry and agriculture to keep both functioning economically, and promotion of up-standing morals and values to keep life well-ordered and smooth. It feels so odd to me to find an out-spoken internationalist, and pacifist, who is nonetheless a racist capitalist.
But it really makes me think, how often do I judge someone based on one or a few things they’ve said, and therefore discredit everything else? I suppose this just proves that being racist or sexist or something, doesn’t mean you don’t have awesome ideas worth talking about.