Off-Topic: Nazi who originated Donald Trump Jr.'s Skittles metaphor was hanged at Nuremberg
http://boingboing.net/2016/09/20/nazi-who-originated-donald-tru.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The Intercept's Naomi LaChange presents the curious origins of Donald Trump Jr.'s tweet comparing Syrian refugees to poison Skittles. "The concept dates back at least to 1938 and a children's book called Der Giftpilz, or The Toadstool, in which a mother explains to her son that it only takes one Jew to destroy an entire people." ALSO: Makers of Skittles to Donald Trump Jr.: Please leave us out of your analogies https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/20/skittles-corp-to-donald-trump-jr-please-leave-us-out-of-your-analogies/ https://twitter.com/SethAbramovitch/status/778091768793407488/photo/1 - - - So often when the Family Trump (originally in Germany it was "Drumpf" as we know) opens their mouths, they invoke Nazi imagery to gladden the hearts of their thuggish white supremacist supporters. It just happens again and again and again. Yes, The Deplorables. It can't be accidental. --Lauren-- Care About Science and Tech? Our Job One: STOP TRUMP: https://vortex.com/stop-trump - - - Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. - - - The correct term is "Internet" NOT "internet" -- please don't fall into the trap of using the latter. It's just plain wrong! _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
