Trump campaign employs symbol used by Nazis for marking political prisoners in concentration camps

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Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche 3m
President Trump’s reelection campaign is displaying a marking once used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-campaign-runs-ads-with-marking-once-used-by-nazis-designate-political-prisoners/

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more concentration camp love from Trump:

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Stephen Miller has his fingerprints all over that one...

[soothsayer]

2. When people show you who they are

Believe them

[SoonerPride]

3. On brand

They aren't "dog whistling" or pretending anymore.

They are full on fascists and want you to know it.

[cayugafalls]

4. This is a blatant signal to the Nazi faction in this country.

The fact that it has not been removed completely and is now getting press will only widen its dissemination.

The white supremacist movement is emboldened and I would not doubt that actions will begin to crop up.

Be vigilant.

[LeftInTX]

7. I don't even recognize those symbols.

I guess it's like that Pepe the Frog thing, I didn't recognize that either.

However, the Nazi faction will.

Disgusting....

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[crickets]

5. K&R for visibility.

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6. Next up from Trump: the efficacy of Zyklon-B in curing Covid-19

Random trials to begin next week in the refugee concentration camps.

[Solly Mack]

9. Trump enjoys knowing he can make his followers

attack those who do not support him.

From those idiotic hats, to the press is the enemy, to wearing a mask is an act against him, to various uses of NAZI imagining, other dog whistles and flat out saying it.

Trump takes pleasure from it. He wants his followers to act. It makes him feel powerful.

[EleanorR]

10. And they ran 88 of these ads

And facebook let them do it.

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11. update

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[Aristus]

12. ...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Very informative; thanks!

[Aristus]

14. Note also the origin of the pink triangle.

The gay community took a symbol of oppression, and turned it into a symbol of liberation.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. I was ignorant of that fact

I didn't know about any of those Nazi symbols for prisoners.

[Aristus]

16. One of the worst examples of "German efficiency".

Although in this case, the classification system had a purpose beyond the merely bureaucratic. The Nazis wanted each classification of prisoner to be clearly marked, in order to maintain them in a kind of prison hierarchy.

The political prisoners, and the common criminals (thieves, rapists, etc) were at the top of the heap, and the Nazis put them in positions of trust, through which they could earn privileges. Their job was to keep the other classifications of prisoners, Jews, gays, etc. in a state of constant terror. The red triangle prisoners constantly beat the others, hounded them to work harder, to spy on one another, etc.

And, unlike the religious prisoners, gays, those with developmental disabilities, and so on, who could only expect to be worked to death or murdered, the politicals and common criminals could work toward release from the camps. Their success in terrorizing the others was part of that incentive plan.

Horrible, all of it.