When a picture with a 6 pointed star comes from a white supremacist website, then any questions about what the star is meant to represent are kind of moot.
I wonder, what is the purpose of the balls?
You see, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they decide they might want to have a little baby of their own…
One can be reasonably well educated and yet be ignorant. Thankfully you have not much exposure to hate group propaganda, and likely not been the target of it yourself.
Moot … and stupid and offensive.
So you’re not wearing a stabby little ornament on your chest while you’re doing a job that can turn physical at any time?
Whenever I think of little balls, I think of LEOs.
Yes, but I want to emphasize that this is not to diss UltraVires. Lots of people just never come across images produced by poisonous purveyors of bigotry.
Trump took the original offending image down pretty quickly, indicating that someone on his staff realized that it was potentially toxic. In fact, once it was pointed out to him, I’m pretty sure that Trump himself would immediately grasp the situation given his geographic upbringing and residence. Afterwards the campaign executed their longstanding “No apologies” strategy of course. Shoulda sacrificed an intern I say.
Stars come in many shapes and sizes. The first step to understand a situation used to be asking for clarification but it’s now it appears much easier to get one’s exercise by jumping to conclusions. Especially if they’re eViL conclusions. 
Or just an attempt to divert attention away from Hillary’s careless/incompetent actions.
Sounds good to me.
This particular star (and the rest of the image) came from a white supremacist website.
And was overlaid on a background of $100 bills. At this point, anybody who maintains that it’s not a reference to Jewish stereotypes is not worth taking seriously.
Trump took it down.
If it were still up, then, okay, maybe let’s ask for clarification – but the star done got covered up by Trump, for some reason. We don’t need to ask whether Trump should take it down; we can skip straight to asking him to explain why he took it down.
And if the answer is “because it’s objectionable and offensive and implies awful things about Jews, which isn’t my intent and I apologize,” then he should look into the camera and say that. And if the answer is something else, then it’s insufficient.
What’s this? The 7 point stars don’t have little balls on each point? Are you suggesting that a LEO department can personalize their choice? In America? That’s incredible. :rolleyes:
People who wanted to see a Star of David, or needed to see a Star of David, saw a Star of David.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown/politics.
-Lawrence Walsh, one of Gittes’s associates
That’s the nicest thing you could say about them.
I agree. My wife was not aware of this story a couple nights ago. I showed her the image without any preface. I asked her what she thought of it, and she rolled her eyes at the “most corrupt” label being applied to Clinton. And that was it. The antisemitic content didn’t register with her at all. My wife is super damned smart. She’s a doctor and trained at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where the majority of her coworkers were Jewish. She doesn’t work there anymore but still encounters Jewish people in the medical profession routinely. We currently live in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. My wife is very socially liberal and concerned about treating everyone with respect and dignity. But she just didn’t see the symbolism that was so obvious to me.
She’s not as cynical as I am. Of course she was horrified when I told her the image came from a white supremacist site. She’s decent and kind and still has the ability to be surprised by hate.
For example - the guy who created the graphic in the first place and posted it at a white supremacist web-site.
Donald Trump should apologize on live national television for his tweet, announcing that he finds antisemites to be both monstrous and moronic.
Now, you may look at that sentence and see a call for Donald Trump to apologize on live national television for his tweet, announcing that he finds antisemites to be both monstrous and moronic; people who want to see that, or need to see that, will see that. After all, it’s what the guy who created that sentence intended.
But other folks may look at that sentence and see an offer to buy Donald Trump a delicious banana split at the local ice-cream parlor; my treat!
Like the white supremacists who created the image and posted it on a white supremacist website.
EDIT: Ninja’d… how’d I miss that one?
I’m in a similar boat to your wife and UltraVires - I just didn’t see it as a Star of David originally. It was - to use Trump’s term - just a “plain star.” In processing the controversy, it did seem like a stretch - Stars of David are interlocking triangles, right?
Then came the news about the origins of the tweet. Now I think it’s completely clear that this is a dog whistle I just didn’t hear. It’s possible neither Trump nor his staff heard it either. But their unwillingness to admit error and back down is extremely problematic. And the context of a campaign that is consistently swimming in some hate-infested waters is also costing them any benefit-of-doubt a normal campaign would get.
Trump and his campaign reusing and retweeting white supremacist images and posts is more than a trend – it’s routine. And they don’t seem to have a problem with it – just part of their communication strategy. If they wanted to fix it, they would have – that kind of thing is incredibly easy to fix.