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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 01:29 AM Aug 2016

Trump’s Angela Merkel comments expose the collision of misogyny and white supremacy

Trump's campaign continues to draw from hate group talking points.

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/19/where-sexism-and-racism-meet-trumps-angela-merkel-comments-expose-the-overlap-between-antifeminism-and-white-supremacy/

Donald Trump has a new obsession: comparing Hillary Clinton to Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany. During a Monday speech, Trump denounced the “massive immigration” to Germany under Merkel, for which he blames crime rising “to levels that no one thought would they would ever see.” He followed up this speech with press releases and a hashtag aimed at equating Clinton and Merkel.

The choice is an odd one on its surface because most Americans don’t have an opinion about Merkel, even when they know who she is. But as Alice Ollstein of Think Progress persuasively argued on Wednesday, the meme makes more sense when one considers that white supremacists definitely know who Merkel is, because they hate her:

To white nationalist communities that fervently support Trump, Merkel has been a popular villain. Sites like the Daily Stormer, the White Genocide Project, American Renaissance, and The White Resister have posted constantly about her since the Syrian refugee crisis began escalating earlier this year. They have accused her of making a “deliberate attempt to turn Germany from a majority White country into a minority White country.” They have called her a “crazy childless bitch,” an “anti-White traitor,” and “a patron saint of terrorists.” They have asked, in articles about Merkel, “Why would you allow a woman to run a country, unless you were doing it as a joke?”

It’s yet another example of how Trump is mainstreaming white supremacist sentiment. But by making two women the center of an attack, he is also highlighting the way that antifeminism and white supremacy are tied into each other, since people in alt-right, white supremacist circles like to blame feminism for what they see as the “decline” of the white race.
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Trump’s Angela Merkel comments expose the collision of misogyny and white supremacy (Original Post) TomCADem Aug 2016 OP
Of course the facts, crime is no higher in Germany this year than in the past, mean nothing to Trump pampango Aug 2016 #1
Omg such primitive thinkers should be kept away lostnfound Aug 2016 #2
The point here, which is a terrifying one, is that Trump and his campaign are doing this stevenleser Aug 2016 #3

pampango

(24,692 posts)
1. Of course the facts, crime is no higher in Germany this year than in the past, mean nothing to Trump
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 07:20 AM
Aug 2016

who is only interested in spreading fear of OTHERS and of female leaders. He is anti-immigrant and anti-refugee, not to mention being racist and bigoted overall, so spreading his 'law-and-order' message (a typical republican in that sense) is not surprising.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
3. The point here, which is a terrifying one, is that Trump and his campaign are doing this
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 08:21 AM
Aug 2016

intentionally. Where "this" = appealing to white supremacist groups.

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