2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPicture Shows Bernie Sanders Being Sent To A Gas Chamber By A Smiling Donald Trump!!! Outrageous.
Donald Trump Retweets Creator of Picture Showing Bernie Sanders Sent to Gas Chamber By A Smiling TrumpBy Lior Zaltzman
Donald Trumps presidential campaign has been littered with odd moments, but this one takes the cake.
This Friday, Trumps official Twitter feed retweeted this Tweet that takes a jab at GOP rival Jeb Bush. It shows a photoshopped image of Bush in front of the Trump Towers, holding up a Vote for Trump sign.
Seems innocuous enough. Until you see the account its retweeted from: @WhiteGenocideTM.
The account promotes a pro-Adolf Hitler documentary The Greatest Story Never Told.
Maybe those rumors about Trump keeping Hitler speeches on his bedside table are true after all.
But thats not even the worst of it. A @WhiteGenocideTM photoshop creation shows Trump in a Nazi uniform flipping on the gas switch on a gas chamber housing Jewish candidate Bernie Sanders.
Read more: http://forward.com/opinion/331449/that-time-donald-trump-retweeted-nazis/#ixzz42kinHDKJ
postatomic
(1,771 posts)Would you entertain the idea of deleting your post? I'd be most grateful.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)And this kind of information needs to be spread widely among people who just don't understand how serious this is.
That tweet helps bring that message home.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)Given the defense of this grade school image I suspect it holds some meaning to you. It's important to you and others. Some hack took the time to make this and damn it.... we're going to stand by the "message".
Is something in the post not true?
TheFarS1de
(1,017 posts)But for some it is still an open wound . I know how my grandparents and father reacted to that type of imagry . It's hard to believe this is now what is being promoted .... I feel sick in the stomach .
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)We should not, however, avert our eyes from unpleasant things because it may make some people uncomfortable. We have to know what we are up against.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)Wow!!! I just thought this was just a childish photoshop hack job. Thanks for the clarification.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I think T-rump is worse than that a-hole. I don't know much about that one other than he was a raging racist who ran for office in Louisiana and got 30% of the vote or so and I was like HOLY CRAP how can that guy get that many votes. And he changed parties a lot or a few times. But, mostly when I think of him I think HOLY CRAP how can he get that many votes. Now I look at people who like T-rump the same way.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)It's scary to see how much support the guy with the live animal on his head is getting.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)postatomic
(1,771 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Jewish lives matter. Jews are the victims of antisemitism day in and day out throughout this world. If we don't discuss it, we can't end it.
6chars
(3,967 posts)of far right-wing anti-Semitism -- and racism of many kinds -- that have been marginalized for a long time. He is telling them it's safe to come out. He is a dangerous, dangerous man.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)So I agree, Jewish Lives Matter. I know what her family went through and I know what has said about her even today. I don't know how a juvenile picture of David Duke 2.0 'gassing' Sanders falls under the category of discussion, but if it makes you feel better.
Seems to me that there should be a more mature way to discuss this, if you feel that's the way we can end antisemitism. I do recall President Obama discussing this and it mostly fell on deaf-ears.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)and spare me the fucking Hillary style double speak
This IS important for ALL Americans to know and you seek to squash it - is this democratic advocacy
What this represents is Trump likes to skirt the edges of outright bigotry and fascism while trying to claim he is part of the Democratic process. YES the Republican Establishment is right and Trump will destroy the party and I for one would like to watch its destruction
postatomic
(1,771 posts)Not sure what coded message you are sending there. Yea, I'm a Trump supporter.
Don't think anyone would be surprised by this. Trump is fairly easy to define. If you feel that this disgusting image is important in some strange way, then go for it.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)Un boche complet!
1monster
(11,012 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Did he really re-tweet that?
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:08 AM - Edit history (1)
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)But he had previously retweeted another picture from the same fucked up guy.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)That's ghastly!
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)It's chilling, though. Ghastly.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)everywhere coming from his Twitter with the
caption: That is Trump in 2016, he would have
been a great friend of Hitler! Are we going there?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There is no reason to post this garbage here.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)be made aware of just how serious this threat is and can be organized and mobilized to isolate and defeat right-wing terrorists and their supporters.
Many photos have been posted on progressive websites of Nazi crimes against humanity including the gas chambers and concentration camps, KKK lynchings of Black people in the south, right-wing terrorist bombings such as Oklahoma City and World Trade Center, etc.,
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)this is not the image trump retweeted. perpetuating falsehoods gets us nowhere. there is plenty of real stuff to get upset about. maybe try showing the actual image he retweeted?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)There is no place for anti-semitic or racist cartoons here. They are offensive and should be deleted.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)You of all people should know this from reading the I/P forum. The cartoon is what it is. Deleting it doesn't remove the hatred towards Jews that occurs on a daily basis on social media and throughout the world.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I would think that if one of the many racist anti-Obama caricature cartoons that are out there was posted here as an example of racism on the right it would be quickly deleted and/or hidden.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I'm still hopeful that Bernie Sanders will address antisemitism but it hasn't happened yet. This article is from January of this year.Sexism, Islamophobia and racism are all addressed but not antisemitism. Do you know why that is?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Palestinians are in,Jews are out.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)Would that not mean that person wants to have a Genocide of Whites? Kinda odd name for a white racist to want. Not sharpest knife in the thing that hold knives.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)It's a common nationalist/nazi/kkk reference on twitter. The genocide of whites.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Incredible.
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)president over voting for Hillary. That picture gives me the chills, just horrendous.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)how PRECIOUS!!
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I misread your original post and I'm sorry for my knee jerk reaction. Please accept my apology.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)What a disgusting, insensitive, and unrelated comment.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)its Holocaust reference is so despicable, she could really win over folks by taking this image and decrying it
It doesn't "hurt" her in fighting Sanders
It certainly helps her in pointing out the horror of this. Yes, Bernie should put it out there too but it's most effective value as outrage comes from HRC defending him against Trump
This is sick shit
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)Hitler whisked the Jews away and No one knew at first what was happening to them. People thought they were just being relocated at first, when in reality, they were being put in concentration camps and being killed.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)This is so horrible I can barely breathe.
RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)In HELL!!!
RandySF
(58,805 posts)Response to imagine2015 (Original post)
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TheFarS1de
(1,017 posts)I am seeing this vile crap popping up of late , the veiled insults and anti semitic dogma being trotted out . Usually I just take it in my stride but of late the attacks have been coming from unexpected sources , people who I thought were not like that . Small things but that is how it starts .
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I've seen it often and I know I'm not the only one.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I've heard him address Islamophobia and racism but not antisemitism during his presidential campaign.
If he has, I'd appreciate someone posting a link.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)maybe someone else has. Anyway it is, this is some sick shit.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)I guess that ran over your head
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Antisemitism is rampant on college campuses and social media. Bernie Sanders has addressed Islamophobia, racism and sexism in depth. I asked if he's done the same in regards to antisemitism. There's no need for rudeness.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)I can still remember when Kennedy the first Catholic elected President of the United States was made an issue with all the "The Pope will be in the White House"
Obama on the other hand headed off the discussion with his preemptive speech about race and what it was like for him growing up in America before the race baiting took off during the election
dana_b
(11,546 posts)hopefully if enough people do it, he will be taken down.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)on college campuses. It's become commonplace. I've seen antisemitism on this forum as well.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Vinca
(50,270 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)I honestly think Trump would get a smile from it, not that he'd admit it publicly, even though he's stoked the fires that have allowed people with this kind of hatred to feel free enough to share it.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Watch, they are going to attack more and more. Bernie better be ready.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)This is another example of the low-life scumbags who are being attracted to Trump's racist campaign.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)-- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/bernie-sanders-mayor/407413/
The person who created that, those who spread that to build hatred, and those who agree with its message are the worst people on earth.