Another day, another potentially racist dog whistle from our president and his representatives. This time, Facebook — which has been reluctant to take on problematic content from Trump, unlike social media peer Twitter — is taking action and removing it from the platform. On Wednesday, the Trump campaign placed 88 ads on Facebook — 88 is a number with Nazi connotations — that featured a symbol used by Nazis to denote political prisoners in concentration camps.
The Trump campaign denied the reference to any Nazi symbols was intentional and deactivated the ads on Wednesday. The ad then asks readers to stand with President Trump against antifa.
Nazis used different colors of upside-down triangles sewn onto clothing to categorize concentration camp prisoners. The pink triangle, used to denote gay people, is perhaps the best known of these, as it was later reclaimed by the LGTBQ community. Red triangles were used for political prisoners, such as people believed to be communists or social democrats.
The Auschwitz Memorial tweeted its own explanation of the symbol, including an image of it on a camp uniform. A red triangle that marked 'political prisoners' was the most common category of prisoners registered at the German Nazi Auschwitz camp. In August , political prisoners constituted 95 percent of camp prisoners'. A letter inside the triangle could mark the nationality. But the use of a red triangle as an antifa symbol, which is what the Trump campaign claimed it was meant to be, is even more obscure.
The image most closely associated with the group is of a red and black flag. When asked for evidence of widespread use of the upside-down red triangle, the Trump campaign pointed to a poster being sold on a website that specializes in merchandise with user-submitted images on it. The campaign also pointed out that there is an upside-down red triangle emoji.
Adding to claims that using a Nazi symbol was deliberate is the fact that the campaign ran exactly 88 ads featuring the symbol. A Facebook spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement that the posts violated the company's policies. Other ads with identical language featured different images including exclamation points and stop signs. Those ads are still visible in the Facebook ad library. The ads were initially posted on June Around 1 a.
The shirt was created by a user from Spain on a website in which anyone can upload their own T-shirt design.
Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign, maintained that antifa used an "inverted red triangle" and that Facebook has an emoji of the symbol. Single Account. The ideal entry-level account for individual users. Corporate solution including all features. Statistics on " Facebook " The most important statistics.
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