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Related: About this forumGOP's nominee tweets out white supremacist memes but we're talking about damn emails?
Rod Green ?@thetheRedundant 16m16 minutes agoWhat country am I living in? What am I missing?GOP's nominee tweets out white supremacist memes but we're talking about damn emails? #amjoy
Justin Miller @justinjm1
NEW: Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Meme Was Created by White Supremacists https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.F9P7j5Csg
On Saturday, Donald Trump tweeted a meme that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that his political rival, "Crooked Hillary", had "made history." The meme Trump tweeted prominently featured the Star of David a holy symbol of the Jewish religion that Nazis attempted to pervert by forcing Jews over the age of 6 to sew it onto their clothing during Hitler's reign.
Emblazoned onto the Star of David in Trump's meme are the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" The star lies atop a giant pile of money.
On Sunday, Mic discovered that Donald Trump's Twitter wasn't the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Donald Trump's rhetoric as early as June 22, 2016, over a week before Donald Trump's team tweeted it.
Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for "HH," or "Heil Hitler," which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight.
The image also appeared on a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics.
Mic previously reported that white supremacists rally on the internet to expose what they believe to be a vast anti-white conspiracy, centuries old, in which Jews have paid off politicians and infiltrated the media to undermine Western society from the top-down. The Hillary meme Trump tweeted which first appeared on perhaps the biggest bastion of the anti-Semitic alt-right has brought that same hateful paranoia into the mainstream...
read: https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.F9P7j5Csg
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GOP's nominee tweets out white supremacist memes but we're talking about damn emails? (Original Post)
bigtree
Jul 2016
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)1. Kick
mcar
(42,372 posts)2. Sad, isn't it?
The media will have its race.