Dude, seriously? You do know that the meme they tweeted came from a white supremacist message board right? So either they’re lying about having created the image themselves and someone on their staff stole it from a white supremacist poster or Twitter user OR someone on their staff made it and posted it to a white…

OK. Perhaps. But it is NOT a thing where white people are being discriminated against because of our whiteness. That is not at all a thing, and I refuse to even entertain anything that legitimizes such absolute nonsense. White people are not victimized, singled out, oppressed, mistreated, exploited, disenfranchised,…

Yes, it’s a prime example of Kettle Logic, usually used by five year olds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_lo…

I mean, it came from someone who has tweeted anti-semitic things before, including a swastika formed from Clinton’s face. And this isn’t the first time the Trump campaign has retweeted from neo-nazi / white supremacist folks. So they are either deliberately re-tweeting racist and anti-semitic memes, OR they are…

I love how their rationale hinges on a generation of people who grew up watching westerns and would find that connection plausible. As opposed to the far more obvious and racist connection of Jews + Money + Corruption.

THIS. “It’s not anti-Semitic because 1) it’s a “sheriff’s star” or 2) maybe it’s a “basic star” but 3) even though it is totally innocuous we have covered the star up.

No one’s trying to make a dent in his core support, that’s not how you win elections in the US. They’re just doing everything they can to make sure that 33% in the middle realizes he’s batshit insane. At best, they hope some of that core electorate he’s relying on will stay home on election day.

I agree that Trump has done worse offenses that should be called out, but he took this from an account that clearly uses anti-semitic imagery. Context counts.

That makes sense if you are completely ignorant about its source. But if that were the case, you’d be some poorly informed moron talking without a goddamned thought worth sharing, mooning on for the goddamned boot to the teeth you deserve.

Considering the thing originated on some white supremacist’s now-deleted Twitter account, yes I think it was supposed to be anti-semitic.

This is a sheriff star.

Why they would release a new one with a circle if it was an innocent piece of microsoft word art...

That's the problem with not vetting anything. It could clearly be read that way, a six pointed star over a pile of cash is just as dogwhistly as a black guy in a stocking cap looking shady outside a convenience store. Sure, you can make the argument that you're not trying to imply anything, but the image hits all the…

Or maybe he is aware and that’s fueled new antisemitic hatred in him because that Jew is the one who got to fuck his daughter instead of him.

I don’t think this will make a dent in his core support. Most of those people are holocaust deniers anyway.

I’m not so concerned with the color, but the fact that a majority of sheriff stars have the little globes at the end of the points means that this was not a sheriff’s star.

irrefutable evidence right there

That is a detailed and nuanced position. I love that the first “issue” on his page is a defense of Trump University.

As is usually the case in politics, it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. They could have dealt with this in all manner of diplomatic ways that would have made the press forget about it. Instead, they have fumbled their way through excuse after excuse, each one flimsier than the next, apparently in an attempt to tell…

Of course he can’t be anti-Semitic. I mean, just look at his official policy position on Israel: