A tweet that he never apoligized for it too. One should point out that unless Trump had the original source changing the graphic that Trump also does not care about copyright issues…
Unless he knows the one that made that image changed it himself to a circle or Trump got permission to change it from the original fascist.
I’ll stand by what I already said:
His campaign appeals to neo-nazis, white supremacists, and their kind, and a fair number of his troops are likely of that mindset and frequent those messageboards. His campaign is also sparsely staffed by professionals (see the recent coming and going of its digital director) so these troops are relatively unsupervised and undisciplined.
I have little doubt that the person putting it up on behalf of his campaign was aware of the graphics intended meaning and just assumed that the campaign would be okay with that and probably there is no one who needed to sign off on it. I doubt Trump himself did.
See, your state has a training class requirement, whether or not it has a hands on component. That’s good- it’s at least something. It sounds like Pennsylvania just requires an application, which leads to a background check and a yes/no.
“Just remember, everybody: a vote for Trump is a vote for unsupervised neo-Nazis and white supremacists who’ll do what they please and assume that Trump is okay with it because nobody higher up needs to sign off on it.”
If this is what Trump refers to as hiring the best people for the job, people that we’ve never heard of that are better than the ones we have now, we’re all in big trouble. Remember, this is still the courtship period; this is Trump on his BEST behaviour.
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There’s no “if” about it. The image originated on /pol/ which is the White Supremacist hangout at 4chan.
Plenty more images from /pol/ here -
including a screencap of the original 4chan post.
This isn’t the first time that Donald’s retweeted stuff from White Supremacist sites. He clearly enjoys reading them.
Trump Tweeted praise for Elie Wiesel today, and Gavin Newsom has been attacking him on Twitter, saying he has no business to say anything praising a Holocaust survivor, when he’s a bigot and anti-Semite.
As an Ohioan, I hope I get a chance to vote for Gavin Newsom some day.
How about the fact that he has staffers who go there?
Or that he has staffers too stupid to create their own graphics?
Was the staffer John Barron?
This looks like the work of John Miller.
Thanks Obama
You know this doesn’t preclude someone from being anti-Semitic, right? He has no control over what religion his adult children converts to. For all we know, this put a major strain on their relationship. Or maybe he makes allowances for her because she isn’t ethnically Jewish, while viewing the “real Jews” as something altogether different.
It’s safe to say that people who are not racist, Islamaphobic, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, or misogynistic will have a difficult time pandering to those who are. At this point, to believe Trump is none of these would require a great deal of evidence that would offset the reams of evidence to the contrary.
After all, it’s not like Bob Saget, who, it bears repeating, did not rape and kill a girl in 1990.
I agree: the ability of people to double-think the one gay/black/Jew in the family as “one of the good ones” is tremendous and cannot be underestimated.
I don’t think Trump thinks he’s anti-Semitic, but that doesn’t mean he’s not. I think that’s the whole point of his “anti-politically correct” verbiage–everyone thinks that being politically correct is not saying what everyone knows is true–things like black people are stupid and violent, Jews are greedy but clever, women do better with a man to boss them around a little, etc. That’s not bigotry, that’s just a basic truth everyone knows. Bigotry is when you take it one step further, or when you are actively mean to someone’s face, or something else. Acknowledging truth can’t be wrong.
This is a digression, but it really drove the point home for me. For years, I’ve worked in the same district and been tangentially connected to a guy who is, for my money, a misogynistic asshole. People who are predisposed to like him despite what I consider a pretty terrible flaw describe him as “really not politically savvy” and say things like “he’s gotten a lot better over the years. He’s learned you can’t always say what you think.” Every time this is brought up in front of me, I point out that the problem is not what he says, it’s what he thinks. But the thing is, he has gotten “better”, for that given value, because he’s been coached by all these people. And that coaching has never been “quit thinking misogynistic shit, you asshole”, but rather “You can’t SAY that to a woman”. Now, I know the people doing the coaching. I know they disagree with what he thinks. But flat-out saying that seems rude, so they fall back on the milder critique. The problem is that this creates monsters: he doesn’t know people are being polite/non-confrontational. He thinks they are inviting him to join in a vast conspiracy of lying in public.
So Trump comes along and says “Hey guys, let’s quit lying. Let’s be honest. We all know the truth” and leaves “the truth” kinda vague, so that people can fill in whatever they think is obviously true but inexplicably on the “things you can’t say” list. And that’s appealing. However, I think Trump himself is one of these guys–he thinks that there are all these things that you can’t say, but everyone knows. Which ones? The ones about Jews? African Americans? Asians? Women? Mexicans? I dunno. I suspect shade of all of them–maybe not as extreme as his followers, but that same kind of thinking. He speaks this language because he believes it.
I’ve concluded that “politically correct” is just another term for “respectful.” So now whenever anyone says they’re not gonna “be all PC,” it’s just another way of saying “To hell with respect.”
“I’m getting sick and tired of all this political correctness” essentially means “I’m getting sick and tired of people being respectful of others, especially others who are different than I am.”
The latest from the orange one’s Twitter;
[QUOTE=Donald Trump, alleged presidential candidate]
Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star!
[/QUOTE]
He could’ve said it didn’t occur to him that it was a Star of David, or that he didn’t know what the source was.
Instead he chooses to insist, knowing now that it originated from a white supremacist site, that it was completely innocuous. And he certainly didn’t bother looking into it himself before he blasted it out to the world, because the only factor Trump considers when deciding whether to trust someone is “Do they like me?”
Let’s hope his tiny, baby-size fingers are never on the button.
Points well made and since I posted that I have read older articles that made them similarly. This Haaretz piece, “Who Cares That Ivanka Trump Is Jewish?” and this one in Forward. From the latter:
Copping a clearly anti-Semitic infographic off of a neo-Nazi White supremacist messageboard, even if taken down quickly, is unfortunately part of a consistent pattern of minimally intentionally pandering to and enabling those who want an America with, as the old satirical song went, “no Blacks, no Jews, and no gays …” and no Hispanics and no Muslims either. Or at least all of 'em, and women too, clearly knowing their proper place.
I am hesitant to play any anti-Semite card personally but your point is hard to argue with. That said there are enough reasons to want him to lose a historically humiliating defeat without adding explicit anti-Semite to his list.
I agree that Trump uses anti-PC’ness to shield himself from accusations of racism etc .
But disagree with you somewhat. Trump doesn’t care if someone sees him as anti-Semitic or racist or whatever; for all we know, he see himself as anti-Semitic and is perfectly fine with others seeing him that way too. I think he’s passed the point that being seen as a bigot upsets his self-image, because if this wasn’t true, he wouldn’t keep shamelessly pandering to bigots in such a transparent way. This makes him worse than your typical prejudiced person on the street who thinks you have to own a white hood to be racist or pretends that the dog whistle messaging that they clearly hear is not actually what they damn well know it is. He is a like a Tara Reed with his boob hanging out, flashing it long enough so that we can all see it but playing coy to fact that he’s acting intentionally. The coyness is what he thinks makes him look clever, but he knows he’s isn’t fooling anyone because he isn’t trying to at this point.
I actually thinks Trump wants to be seen as bigoted, because he associates bigotry with the ruthless pragmatism that made America great years ago. The problem with society today, you see, is that we’ve made it taboo to be bigots. It used to be that you could round up the minorities (e.g. Japanese-Americans) and intern/oppress/stigmatize them during times of conflict “just to be on the safe side” and it was fine. Now in our political correct environment, we can’t do that stuff (to the Muslims) and look at where that has left us!
I get why people are hesitant to believe that someone as rich and influential as Trump could actually be a flaming bigot. It goes against the pretty fiction that people like him are rare and relegated to the most powerless fringes of society. If Trump exists, there are probably more like him, and this is unsettling. But there is power in calling a duck a duck. Perhaps it’s possible that he is merely masquerading as a bigot just to get votes. Perhaps this is simply him being a panderer extraordinaire, not a true hatemonger. But I’ll be damned if I bend over backwards to call him anything other than what his behavior suggests he is. He doesn’t deserve that.