Trump invokes KKK slogan 'love it or leave it' at North Carolina rally | SBS News
Trump invokes slogan used regularly by local SC KKK division in campaign rally
"At a rally in North Carolina, US President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against four Democratic congresswomen and appeared to invoke a slogan used by white nationalists telling them to 'love it or leave it'."
“If they don’t love it, tell them to leave it" - that was US President Donald Trump’s message about four Democratic congresswomen at a rally in North Carolina, where supporters called for one of four female politicians - who was born overseas - to be “sent back”.
“Let ’em leave,” Mr Trump said of the four women. “They’re always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to do that. You know what? If they don’t love it, tell ’em to leave it.”
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I find it hard to believe that his handlers weren't aware of this reference in this specific area of the country—especially in regards to the topic at hand.
The question is, what level of racial rhetoric does Trump have to use before his supporters find it abhorrent enough to call him out on it? My guess is there is no bottom, no mark to hit on that.
To say it is a "KKK" slogan is very misleading. Here's some info on the slogan. Although there may be certain undesirables that may use this slogan, it has little or no relationship with the KKK. In fact, it was used in Brazil by a military dictatorship. In the US, although the exact origin isn't known, Walter Winchell first popularized it here in the US.
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"Brazil, love it or leave it" (Brasil, ame-o ou deixe-o), nationalist slogan of the Brazilian military dictatorship.[1]
"America, love it or leave it", a pseudo-patriotic slogan used against political activists, critics, dissidents and opponents in the United States.
The precise origin of the saying is unknown, but it was first popularized by Walter Winchell in defense of McCarthyism during the 1940s and 50s.[2] It became particularly fashionable during the Vietnam War when it was frequently leveled against anti-war protesters[2], made its way onto bumper stickers and into country songs, and helped Richard Nixon become president.[3] Though its popularity and power have waned since then, the expression is still hurled from time to time in disputes over a variety of issues, like anti American domestic policy, claims of white privilege, strong border enforcement, etc.[4] Four Democrat Members of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ihan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, became the latest to be hit with the idiom when President Donald Trump and some of his supporters began asking them to leave if they are not happy in America.[5] [6]"
Love it or leave it - Wikipedia
Here's some background on Winchell that demonstrates the folly of calling the "Love it or leave it slogan" a KKK slogan.
" Winchell was Jewish and was one of the first commentators in America to attack Adolf Hitler and American pro-fascist and pro-Nazi organizations such as the German-American Bund, especially its leader Fritz Julius Kuhn. He was a staunch supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal throughout the Depression era, and frequently served as the Roosevelt Administration's mouthpiece in favor of interventionism as the European war crisis loomed in the late 1930s. Early on, he denounced American isolationists as favoring appeasement of Hitler, and was explicit in his attacks on such prominent isolationists as Charles Lindbergh, whom he dubbed "The Lone Ostrich", and Gerald L.K. Smith, whom he denounced as "Gerald Lucifer KKKodfish Smith". Throughout the 1930s and 1940s,
Winchell was also an outspoken supporter of civil rights for African Americans, and frequently attacked the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups as supporting un-American, pro-German goals. After World War II, Winchell began to denounce Communism as the main threat facing America.
During World War II, he attacked the National Maritime Union, the labor organization for the civilian United States Merchant Marine, which he said was run by Communists.[12] In 1948 and 1949, he and influential leftist columnist Drew Pearson "inaccurately and maliciously assaulted Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in columns and radio broadcasts."[13] "
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ter_Winchell&usg=AOvVaw1iTYNfRK7_0YYKLTq7Njgi
