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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:44:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:45:03 GMT
Donald Trump
Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters.[3][16] In a rally at Des Moines, Iowa, Trump stated: "While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you hardworking American patriots who love your country".[14][17] During the rest of the election, Trump invited "deplorable Americans" on stage.[18] For example, at a rally in Miami, Florida, on September 16, 2016, Trump parodied Les Misérables with the title Les Déplorables under the song "Do You Hear the People Sing?".[19][20] Trump also used the label against Clinton in an advertisement, which claimed that Clinton herself is deplorable because she "viciously demoniz[es] hard working people like you".[21] On November 8, 2017, one year after the election, Trump thanked his "deplorables" for his victory.[22]
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:46:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:47:03 GMT
Use as a protest song
The song used as a slogan in the 2014 Hong Kong protests
There are unofficial adaptations of Do You Hear the People Sing? in Cantonese and Taiwanese, intended as actual protest songs; better known versions include "Asking Who That Hasn't Spoken Out" (問誰未發聲), written in Cantonese for Occupy Central with Love and Peace, and Lí Kám Ū Thiann-tio̍h Lán Ê Kua (你敢有聽着咱的歌) in Taiwanese Hokkien.[4]
The song can be heard in protests in Hong Kong as recently as of September 2019, when students sang this song over the national anthem during a secondary school's opening assembly.[5][6][7] The song was initially removed on music platforms including QQ Music in mainland China because of its widespread usage in anti-extradition bill protests, while its English version was later removed from those platforms.[8]
Aside from the aforementioned Cantonese and Taiwanese Hokkien adaptations, The Telegraph said that the song "has long chimed with people protesting around the world", adding that it was heard at the 2011 Wisconsin protests, the 2013 protests in Turkey, and a protest against the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Australia in 2013.[4] It has also been used by anti-TTIP protesters who have interrupted TTIP congresses as flashmobs singing the song.[9]
The song was also used in support of the Maidan protests by Ukraine 2020, who released a music video for the song on YouTube.[10]
In 2016, the song was used as a protest song in South Korea's nationwide Park Geun-hye resignation movement.[11]
Use in politics
On September 16, 2016, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump used the song in a rally in Miami under the parody title Les Déplorables, a response to Hillary Clinton's controversial "basket of deplorables" label.[12][13]
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