Posted on 04/29/2016 6:53:14 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged presidential candidate Donald Trump to reconsider his use of the phrase “America First” as a slogan describing his approach to foreign affairs, citing its anti-Semitic use in the months before Pearl Harbor by a group of prominent Americans seeking to keep the nation out of World War II.
The most noteworthy leader of the “America First Committee” was Charles Lindbergh, who sympathized with the Nazis and whose rhetoric was characterized by anti-Semitism and offensive stereotypes, including assertions that Jews posed a threat to the U.S. because of their influence in motion pictures, radio, the press, and the government.
“The undercurrents of anti-Semitism and bigotry that characterized the America First movement – including the assumption that Jews who opposed the movement had their own agenda and were not acting in America’s best interest – is fortunately not a major concern today,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “However, for many Americans, the term ‘America First’ will always be associated with and tainted by this history. In a political season that already has prompted a national conversation about civility and tolerance, choosing a call to action historically associated with incivility and intolerance seems ill-advised.”
In a letter to Mr. Trump, ADL urged him to refrain from using the slogan in the future.
As a 501(c) (3) organization, ADL does not support or oppose candidates for public office.
The ADL can pound sand.
ADL can just STHU!
They don’t own it. Neither does Pat Buchanan. It is a counter to the citizen of the world crap.
Use the term, use it properly. Trump is hardly a master of standard English, but he has successfully railed against being told which words and terms can and cannot be used based on how others use them, rather than their real meaning.
Uh, you can’t take care of others until you have your own act together. So, ‘adl’, STFU and sit down.
ADL is anti American. They are not very smart to alienate the only side that would stand in defence of the Jews.
That’s why Donald Trump became one of the most successful businessmen in the history of New York City. Because he’s an anti-Semite. /SUPERsarc
So, ADL...What exactly should he say?? “America Second”???
Maybe “America Last”???
How about ADL reconsider and think about where MOST of their funding comes from......
Apples & Oranges ADL.
How dare you bring up the fact that Lindbergh supported Hitler without including Hitler’s Famous Supporters like
Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, KENNEDY... Basically ALL of America’s Elitists Supported Adolf Hitler up until the day he attacked their Mother Russia.
This is where The Donald shines, bringing the enemy out into the open, showing them for what they are.
Just look and see why they take the self serving positions they take.
Speaking of defamation...the ADL is the same organization which ginned up the whole ‘David Duke supports Donald Trump’ story last summer.
The ADL can KMA. America will always be first in my book. ADL is a bunch of sissified whiners. Shut up and go back into your safe zone, idiots.
I think we should take a look at what the people of the ADL have been saying, I’ll bet there is some race and ethnic hate speech on their end of the bargain.
No one takes the moral level of conflict from me without a fight.
Oh brother. So it might have been a slogan used by some fringe organization in the 1930s, but it’s okay to have Che Guvera flags hanging up in your election headquarters. Or quoting Stalin. Or having Mao Christmas decorations.
Give it a rest already. Not everything is associated with the NAZIs.
Oh, woopie do.........
.........now, Trump is a f=Nazi. I suppose?
Not just “NO”-—It’s HELL, NO!!!!!
Why would ANY country NOT consider themselves first?
I’ll admit that I’m not that well versed on the form and content of the ADL except that my vagary about them tends to make me want to put them in the same bin with the ACLU.
Am I off base here?
In his speech the other day, Trump mentioned that all nations should think of policies that benefited their own nation. There’s nothing sinister about this.
You’ve got to be pretty darn lame if you can’t grasp that.
So some other group once used this term. Give a break.
I’ll bet they said, “Okay folks, let’s eat.” at some point too. Should we avoid that?
There are some very challenged people out there.
he could perhaps change it to “the United States first” and shut these “triggered” lunatics up, for a minute...maybe...maybe not...who knows
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