Why Is the Department of Labor Posting White Nationalist Propaganda? |
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The Trump administration’s Department of Labor sparked outcry this weekend after using language on social media that many observers pointed out echoes a phrase commonly used in Nazi propaganda — following months of post after post from the agency espousing white nationalist sentiments.
On Saturday, the Labor Department wrote on social media: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.” Accompanying the text was a short video showing what appears to be a statue of President George Washington overlaid on a series of war-themed historic American paintings and propaganda posters.
Other accounts were quick to point out the strong similarity to Nazi propaganda that proclaimed “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer,” translating roughly to “One People, One Nation, One Leader.” One historic poster shows a portrait of Adolf Hitler standing........