Labor department rhetoric, such as ‘One Homeland. One People. One Heritage’, prompt comparisons to Nazi slogan
Union leaders have accused the Trump administration of a “rhetorical shift towards white supremacy” after social media posts by the US Department of Labor drew comparison with a Nazi slogan.
Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”
Users of X, formerly Twitter, and Grok, the platform’s AI tool, highlighted a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”).
“The similarity to that Nazi slogan is bad,” Christopher Hayes, a labor historian and professor at Rutgers University, told the Guardian, expressing alarm over “the motivation behind it, the message, the sentiment and desired outcome”.
And a stark reminder that the machinist union members voted almost 50% to endorse Trump and that the President of the teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, elected by the union members, is a die hard MAGA fan rivaling that of a 90’s teenaged girl NSync mega fan.
I think people vastly overestimate the Union’s being actual allies against this type of fascism.
And it’ll be funny when the dictator does what dictators do, and completely dismantle trade unions and agreements and send everyone back to work for $2 a day under threat of execution - then we’ll be back to the days of Pinkerton agents killing striking unionists and their leaders.