Trump Jr.’s Skittles tweet based on white supremacist memes and Nazi propaganda

Posted by | September 20, 2016 16:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Trump, Jr.s comparison of poisoned Skittles to humans isn’t new.

“This image says it all,” reads the text. “Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016,″ accompanied by the official Donald Trump/Mike Pence campaign logo and slogan. The analogy isn’t new, and has been used for years by white supremacists to overgeneralize about various minority groups. “It is often deployed as a way to prop up indefensible stereotypes by taking advantage of human ignorance about base rates, risk assessment and criminology,” wrote Emil Karlsson on the blog Debunking Denialism. “In the end, it tries to divert attention from the inherent bigotry in making flawed generalizations.” A spokeswoman for Wrigley Americas, which makes Skittles, whacked Trump’s dehumanizing comparison. “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy,” said Denise Young, vice president of corporate affairs. “We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.” Joe Walsh, a single-term congressman from Illinois and now a right-wing talk radio host who’s been booted from the airwaves for using racial slurs, bragged that Trump’s meme was nearly identical to one he had tweeted a month earlier…

The analogy, which has been used on message boards and shared as social media memes, originally used M&Ms as the candy in question — but that changed after George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin while the unarmed black teen was walking home from buying a drink and some Skittles.

A Google image search of “skittles trayvon meme” reveals a horrible bounty of captioned images mocking the slain teenager, whose killer was acquitted after claiming self-defense under Florida’s “stand your ground” law.

But the poisoned candy analogy goes back even further, to an anti-Semitic children’s book published by Julius Streicher, the publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer who was executed in 1946 as a war criminal.

The book tells the tale of “the poisonous mushroom,” and was used to indoctrinate children in hate.

“Just as poisonous mushrooms spring up everywhere, so the Jew is found in every country in the world,” the story’s mother explains to her son. “Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most dreadful calamity, so the Jew is the cause of misery and distress, illness and death.”

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22 responses to Trump Jr.’s Skittles tweet based on white supremacist memes and Nazi propaganda

  1. anothertoothpick September 20th, 2016 at 17:17

    Clearly the trump family has zero redeeming qualities. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8e95e679abbd592d95fafb85b74ae9382e0f170fb596588c66b874f923f1a68f.jpg

    • Larry Schmitt September 20th, 2016 at 17:25

      He’d use the sink.

      • bpollen September 22nd, 2016 at 06:33

        Maybe Eric and Skittles would… Papa Smurfbanfuhrer would just dribble on the floor.

  2. William September 20th, 2016 at 17:33

    Anyone surprised? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/037745b6e925174aac98cbf2bf1edb21b2bdfbaea63c5ce87232dd650c6c4b2e.jpg

    • StoneyCurtisll September 20th, 2016 at 20:46

      I love that image~!…
      Perfect~!

  3. Gary Parillo September 20th, 2016 at 17:55

    We are all “skittles” to these empty hearted people.Trumps cultists need to realize,he is the 1% of the 1%as are their entire family.His supposed concern for us “little people” is only another Donny lie.

  4. Foundryman September 20th, 2016 at 18:59

    Attempts to dehumanize people is what rich people who live in top floor luxury penthouses always do as they look down and see all the ‘little dots’ scurrying about.

  5. StoneyCurtisll September 20th, 2016 at 20:50

    http://orig03.deviantart.net/a094/f/2015/206/b/f/trump_cartoon_by_seacorc-d92toel.jpg

    • whatthe46 September 20th, 2016 at 23:01

      i can’t figure out for the life of me, and i’m not about to try, and that is, why on earth, would blacks, women, jews, hispanics, and anyone other than white racists, support this bastard? it’s fuckin’ amazing.

      • crc3 September 20th, 2016 at 23:10

        Because they are fu*king brain dead?

  6. StoneyCurtisll September 20th, 2016 at 21:20

    More to the point…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZsOISarzg

  7. crc3 September 20th, 2016 at 23:14

    I don’t normally wish bad things to happen to anyone but in Rump and company’s case I definitely make an exception. They deserve only the worst life has to offer and the sooner the better….

  8. Richard Banville September 21st, 2016 at 01:26

    Eric Trump sings a lovely song to support his father’s campaign:

    https://youtu.be/FN7r0Rr1Qyc

    • bpollen September 21st, 2016 at 04:42

      Scariest part in any friggin’ movie ever made… at least to me. The banality of evil in clear imagery.

      • StoneyCurtisll September 21st, 2016 at 18:09

        Bingo~!

        • bpollen September 22nd, 2016 at 06:28

          Winner winner, chicken dinner!

    • StoneyCurtisll September 21st, 2016 at 18:08

      Raise your right hand high if you support Donald Trump~!

  9. bpollen September 21st, 2016 at 04:42

    On average, 36 people per day die via firearms. But what the hell, let’s worry about people we don’t know fleeing war instead.

  10. StoneyCurtisll September 21st, 2016 at 18:06

    Not the only offensive trump ad..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRTwf5GUbbU

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