{"id":176429,"date":"2020-06-18T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/18\/trump-is-less-subtle-than-i-had-understood\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:24:00","slug":"trump-is-less-subtle-than-i-had-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/18\/trump-is-less-subtle-than-i-had-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Less Subtle Than I Had Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Donald Trump campaign just had Facebook pull some of their political ads because they used Nazi iconography<\/a>.<\/div>\n

I still can’t believe that I am saying this, but Trump’s lack of subtlety on race baiting has stunned me.<\/p>\n

Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners during World War II, saying the imagery violated company policy.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign had used the ads, with a picture of a large red triangle, to inveigh against antifa, a loose collective of anti-fascist protesters that President Trump has blamed for violence and vandalism during the nationwide protests against racial injustice. There is scant evidence<\/a> that antifa has been involved in any coordinated campaigns during the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

It was not clear if the Trump campaign was familiar with the origin of the symbol, which was reclaimed after World War II by some anti-fascists in Britain and Germany, in the same way that various political groups over the years have reclaimed words and symbols used to oppress them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate,\u201d Facebook said in a statement. \u201cOur policy prohibits using a banned hate group\u2019s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m even more stunned that Facebook actually took action and yanked the ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Donald Trump campaign just had Facebook pull some of their political ads because they used Nazi iconography. I still can’t believe that I am saying this, but Trump’s lack of subtlety on race baiting has stunned me. Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,506,573,364,629,389,374],"class_list":["post-176429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-bigotry","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-fascism","tag-history","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}