Current Events > Trump uses KKK slogan at North Carolina rally.

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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-invokes-kkk-slogan-love-it-or-leave-it-at-north-carolina-rally

"If they dont love it, tell them to leave it" - that was US President Donald Trumps 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. Theyre always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to do that. You know what? If they dont love it, tell em to leave it.

But the love it or leave it line is an eerily familiar slogan of the Klu Klux Klan in North Carolina, according to Australian National University US politics expert Jennifer Hunt.

Dr Hunt, who grew up in North Carolina, said the Love it or Leave it slogan was used by the KKK years ago when it claimed to be fighting communism and integration.

I remember seeing signs as a child, Welcome to Klan country love it or leave it, she told SBS News.

Many of those good people didnt leave North Carolina, they worked to improve it. And the white nationalists who remained didnt relinquish their degenerate slogans and ideas, just their decent place in society.

But when theyre ushered back in, that threatens the safety of us all.

Mr Trumps rally cries came on the back of days of criticism after he told the four women to go back to their countries of origin, although three of them were born in America.

When Mr Trump made the love it or leave it remark, the crowd responded enthusiastically back shouting, leave it!

Dr Hunt said such language would undoubtedly embolden white nationalists.

Theyre being brought in from the cold after a whole generation of being cast out of polite society and now theyre feeling empowered," she said.

They feed off these messages off the most important office holder on the planet so what he says matters and we should be holding him up to the highest standard.

But such language, in turn, could have significant real-life consequences, she added.

We have white nationalists that are celebrating this president and saying he supports our message and finally have our man in the White House," she said.

This is disconcerting, and, of course, what happens in North Carolina doesnt stay in North Carolina - these messages will be broadcast nationally and theyll be broadcast internationally.

And we see that white nationalist ideas when weaponised with violence are capable of brutal massacres in churches, mosques and synagogues.

At the rally, Mr Trump doubled down on his attacks against the four congresswomen to enthusiastic supporters who chanted, Send her back! Send her back! in reference to Ilhan Omar, who arrived in America as a child refugee.

Dr Hunt said Send her back is likely to become the new lock her up the slogan used by Trump supporters in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, when crowds attacked Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Dr Hunt said the next election will likely be fought on the lines of race and immigration.

This will be the new chant in place of lock her up it will be send her back, Dr Hunt said.

And how Republicans and how the American public responds to that tells us less about Trump, more about ourselves.

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He needed a new campaign gimmick. His policies never happen, only the hate remains
what a crazy old guy
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He's a chip off the old block.
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"Love it or leave it," goes well beyond the KKK. I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but having the sentiment that you should get out if you don't like it has nothing to do with the Klan.

If you want to demonize him, stick to the fact that he's keeping children in substandard sanitary conditions. You don't have to make shit up or grasp for straws when he's a literal tyrant.

Skye Reynolds posted...

"Love it or leave it," goes well beyond the KKK. I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but having the sentiment that you should get out if you don't like it has nothing to do with the Klan.

If you want to demonize him, stick to the fact that he's keeping children in substandard sanitary conditions. You don't have to make shit up or grasp for straws when he's a literal tyrant.

Sure they do, how else could they remind people multiple times a day that Trump is bad
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DarthAragorn posted...

Sure they do, how else could they remind people multiple times a day that Trump is bad

By directly quoting him?

In any case, "love it or leave it" is a stupid fucking complaint because we could say the same thing about abortion, gay marriage, transgender rights, and the "war on Christmas."
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Sure they do, how else could they remind people multiple times a day that Trump is bad

by focusing on the 'actual tyrant' things that he does? what a low effort post.

... Thats my point
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"Love it or leave it" isn't really a Klan slogan per se. But regardless, it's still used by and associated with bigots
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Isn't that a slogan for an HGTV show
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If the article was written by an Australian, maybe they just dont realize how stupid it sounds to tie love it or leave it to the KKK. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is still fake news.
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I just never will get the stance that criticising your country means you should leave.

Like, surely the point of them criticising their country is to fix it, or point out issues? Blindly following something is just being a cultist, and if you TRULY loved your country then you wouldn't be afraid to call it out. Just like you wouldn't be afraid to call a friend/family member out when they fuck up.
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why is trump at kkk rallys?
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LMAO imagine trying to stretch this far to connect Trump to the KKK

Y'all are sick tbh
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DarkRoast posted...

Isn't that a slogan for an HGTV show

That flamboyant fuck always finds a house that's like a 100k outside their asking price and then says, "But just look at the closet space!" when Hilary Farr is actually dealing with real problems.
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I still can't wrap my head around the mental gynmastics going from "This nation sucks and everyone in it sucks, it's leaders suck, lets make it great again! MAGA!"

To

"If you don't like it then leave! Stop complaining and trying to change it."

Erm.... You can't hold those stances simutaniously
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I still can't wrap my head around the mental gynmastics going from "This nation sucks and everyone in it sucks, it's leaders suck, lets make it great again! MAGA!"

To

"If you don't like it then leave! Stop complaining and trying to change it."

Erm.... You can't hold those stances simutaniously

Be fair, Unfair, if anyone could figure out how to hold two entirely different stances at the same time, I'm sure it'd be you.
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DarthAragorn posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Sure they do, how else could they remind people multiple times a day that Trump is bad

by focusing on the 'actual tyrant' things that he does? what a low effort post.

... Thats my point

it was shitty of me to attack your post as 'low effort'. i apologize.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I still can't wrap my head around the mental gynmastics going from "This nation sucks and everyone in it sucks, it's leaders suck, lets make it great again! MAGA!"

To

"If you don't like it then leave! Stop complaining and trying to change it."

Erm.... You can't hold those stances simutaniously

It's because he's changing from "make America great" to "keep it great"
Basically conditioning everyone to claim he did a great job
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tennisdude818 posted...

If the article was written by an Australian, maybe they just dont realize how stupid it sounds to tie love it or leave it to the KKK. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is still fake news.

On_The_Edge posted...

LMAO imagine trying to stretch this far to connect Trump to the KKK

Y'all are sick tbh

Yeah it stands on its own as a pretty overtly racist and ethnonationalistic sentiment so as you say there's no need to link it to the kkk
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tennisdude818 posted...

If the article was written by an Australian, maybe they just dont realize how stupid it sounds to tie love it or leave it to the KKK. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is still fake news.

Dr Hunt, who grew up in North Carolina, said the Love it or Leave it slogan was used by the KKK years ago when it claimed to be fighting communism and integration.

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Skye Reynolds posted...

"Love it or leave it," goes well beyond the KKK. I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but having the sentiment that you should get out if you don't like it has nothing to do with the Klan.

If you want to demonize him, stick to the fact that he's keeping children in substandard sanitary conditions. You don't have to make shit up or grasp for straws when he's a literal tyrant.

I mean, to ignore all the other nods and whatnots he's made to white nationalists before, oh that one time he had one working under him, all the times he's called people of color expletives, blatant racism like I dunno, fucking saying that women of color need to go back to the countries they come from (oh, let's not forget his Africa shithole line)... Yeah. No. He's a white nationalist.
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TroutPaste posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

I still can't wrap my head around the mental gynmastics going from "This nation sucks and everyone in it sucks, it's leaders suck, lets make it great again! MAGA!"

To

"If you don't like it then leave! Stop complaining and trying to change it."

Erm.... You can't hold those stances simutaniously

It's because he's changing from "make America great" to "keep it great"
Basically conditioning everyone to claim he did a great job

That's actually a pretty clever slogan change

But it still makes no sense to hold both stances
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Trumps existence is racist. Everywhere he goes racism grows.
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eston posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

If the article was written by an Australian, maybe they just dont realize how stupid it sounds to tie love it or leave it to the KKK. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is still fake news.

Dr Hunt, who grew up in North Carolina, said the Love it or Leave it slogan was used by the KKK years ago when it claimed to be fighting communism and integration.

Missed that. So yeah this is just TDS.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

If the article was written by an Australian, maybe they just dont realize how stupid it sounds to tie love it or leave it to the KKK. Just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is still fake news.

On_The_Edge posted...

LMAO imagine trying to stretch this far to connect Trump to the KKK

Y'all are sick tbh

Yeah it stands on its own as a pretty overtly racist and ethnonationalistic sentiment so as you say there's no need to link it to the kkk

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