Trump vs Hillary 2016

Quote: petroglyph

Do you feel as though he made an anti Jewish statement, because there was a six pointed star on a tweet?

It was stupid
Its offensive to Jews because it refers to the old stereotype of crooked to get rich
He took it down right away because its a dumb mistake (due to the internet, its now out there forever)
It just points to his stupidity
He saw it, probably chuckled and retweeted it without really thinking about it
That's one of his main problems, he simply does not think things thru acting as an internet troll

This is as sad as the right wing press frothing over a Sigh. A six point star is not the Star of David. It's a shape in power point.

Quote: TheCesspit

This is as sad as the right wing press frothing over a Sigh. A six point star is not the Star of David. It's a shape in power point.

Do your research Cess the Star of David is 6 points, 2 overlayed equilateral triangles.

Quote: kenarman

Do your research Cess the Star of David is 6 points, 2 overlayed equilateral triangles.

Yes, it is, and every example is an open star, made up of two triangles, that are unfilled. Not just a six pointed star.



That is the Star of David, also known as a hexagram. It's a particular design of six pointed star. Often (of course not always) in blue, and stylized in places, and in context is rarely used as a filled in star... but in those contexts it's clearly being used a symbol for Judaism or the Jewish faith.

Slapping a red star as a highlight on a story about Hillary Clinton is not clearly about the Jewish people or the State of Israel. The context is about her corruption.

I find it odd to equal the use of a common highlight shape with 'anti-semitism'. It's a big leap, and reads in many extra layers that assume a whole set of tropes and stereotypes. Maybe everyone in the US is far more sensitive to the use of all concave dodecagon's to always related to Judaism.

If so, then I apologize, but from outside, it seems very weird.

You can stop pretending Trump's tweet was anything other than anti-Semetic now:


https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists

Quote: ams288

You can stop pretending Trump's tweet was anything other than anti-Semetic now:


https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists

Seems the intention was so. I still assume, without further info, that the social media manager thought the same as me... maybe not.

Quote: TheCesspit

Seems the intention was so. I still assume, without further info, that the social media manager thought the same as me... maybe not.

It depends, a bit, on where they got the meme to begin with. If they got it from a white supremacist site, well, I don't find it surprising that Trump's rhetoric draws those people to work for his campaign.

Quote: Evenbob

Hillary hasn't
been indicted yet, or even interviewed
by the head of the FBI. And they just
opened a 2nd investigation last week.
We have all that to look forward to.

Looks like you no longer have that to look forward to.

:)

Quote: ams288

Looks like you no longer have that to look forward to.

Come now. We all know politically motivated criminal investigations always succeed. Don't' you recall how Karl Rove was sent to prison for life? What? What's a "Scooter Libby"? Some kind of fancy Segway? And don't you recall how Bill Clinton was impeached and removed from office in disgrace in January 2001? What? Whaddaya mean his second term was up?

This idea of Michelle Obama as Hillary's VP choice seems to be bandied about a lot. Ellen Degeneres brought it up with Hillary, and Hillary said the idea was great, but deferred to choosing Ellen as her #1 VP choice.

The problem seems to be that Obamas and Clintons don't like each other very much. Plus the idea of two former first ladies running together may be too "Evita" for many people.