Trump Campaign: Don't Taste the Rainbow, It's Poison

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/778016283342307328/photo/1

Skittles response:

https://twitter.com/SethAbramovitch/status/778091768793407488/photo/1

[Dr. Arch]

Another nugget from a rancid campaign featuring a rancid candidate.

[Devout Centrist]

Terrible analogy. Even if you accept the premise behind it, a terrorist attack by refugees is probably more similar to eating so many skittles to the point you experience some negative side effects, not clinical death.

[Nyvin]

Don't trust the others

~Trump

[Xing]

Disgusting. Trump Jr. really is his father's son.

[Mallow]

Terrible analogy. Even if you accept the premise behind it, an terrorist attack by refugees is probably more similar to eating so many skittles to the point you experience some negative side effects, not clinical death.

Specifically, 10.9 billion Skittles:
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12986886/donald-trump-jr-terrorist-skittles-wrong

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Every group of human being has some poison mixed throughout. This is racist.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Terrible analogy. Even if you accept the premise behind it, an terrorist attack by refugees is probably more similar to eating so many skittles to the point you experience some negative side effects, not clinical death.

Specifically, 10.9 billion Skittles:
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12986886/donald-trump-jr-terrorist-skittles-wrong

Vox didn't think that through very carefully. They looked for a seemingly relevant number, found it, and ran with it. The skittles are supposed to represent potential refugees, not Americans killed in a terrorist attack by refugees in any given previous year.

[Likely Voter]

ironic side-note...

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37421886

[Maxwell]

that's almost the exact same wording that Former Congressman and famous child support dodger Joe Walsh used in a tweet MONTHS AGO.

Plagiarism seems to run rampant in this family.

[Adam Griffin]

Perhaps the biggest crime here is the use of the fragmented sentences.

[Adam Griffin]

[Bacon King]

god bless you adam

[Ebowed]

This must be devastating for Trump supporters.  Many of them were under the impression that a bowl of Skittles is a balanced breakfast.

[DIXIECRAT]

Terrorism may be the least problem associated with mass Muslim migration. Thankfully, America's quite distant from Aleppo.

[Dr. Arch]

Terrorism may be the least problem associated with mass Muslim migration. Thankfully, America's quite distant from Aleppo.

What's Aleppo?

[Mallow]

Terrible analogy. Even if you accept the premise behind it, an terrorist attack by refugees is probably more similar to eating so many skittles to the point you experience some negative side effects, not clinical death.

Specifically, 10.9 billion Skittles:
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12986886/donald-trump-jr-terrorist-skittles-wrong

Vox didn't think that through very carefully. They looked for a seemingly relevant number, found it, and ran with it. The skittles are supposed to represent potential refugees, not Americans killed in a terrorist attack by refugees in any given previous year.

Fair point, they're comparing apples to oranges. I wonder what the "true" number would be in this analogy. Certainly far bigger than the number of Skittles in the original Trump bowl, but also much smaller than 10.9 billion (which is more than the number of people on the planet). I wonder which of the two comes closer in terms of order of magnitude--my guess is the latter. For example, if it's 3 per 1 million Skittles, 10² (Trump) is equally as far away from 10⁶ as it is to 10¹⁰ (Vox), in terms of the order of magnitude.

[Lyin' Steve]

Reminds me of this equally disgusting image from the left:



In both cases, the obvious flaw is that banning a refugee or abandoning sex and relationships are far more impactful than not eating a little candy, while poisoning is equally impactful to terrorism/rape.

[Ebsy]

Could you remind me of when a paid campaign surrogate or Hillary Clinton family member tweeted out that?

[Ronnie]

Disgusting. Trump Jr. really is his father's son.

It actually seems like he's even more extreme than his dad.  He's lately presented himself as a full-on Alex Jones conspiracy nutjob and white supremacist.

[Maxwell]

Terrorism may be the least problem associated with mass Muslim migration. Thankfully, America's quite distant from Aleppo.

What's Aleppo?

[Devout Centrist]

Reminds me of this equally disgusting image from the left:



In both cases, the obvious flaw is that banning a refugee or abandoning sex and relationships are far more impactful than not eating a little candy, while poisoning is equally impactful to terrorism/rape.

It's a dumb analogy and both sides will use it to further their ends.

https://debunkingdenialism.com/2014/07/05/poisonous-mms-the-irrational-monstrosity-of-bigotry/

[Adam Griffin]

Reminds me of this equally disgusting image from the left:



In both cases, the obvious flaw is that banning a refugee or abandoning sex and relationships are far more impactful than not eating a little candy, while poisoning is equally impactful to terrorism/rape.

It's a dumb analogy and both sides will use it to further their ends.

https://debunkingdenialism.com/2014/07/05/poisonous-mms-the-irrational-monstrosity-of-bigotry/

Again, it's a false equivalence. Who gives a s[inks]t about what "the left" does in this context? One side nominates, props up and condones the actual representatives and standard-bearers of their party to use this kind of imagery; the other doesn't. Period.

[Adam Griffin]

Also, obligatory viewing.

[Person Man]

Disgusting. Trump Jr. really is his father's son.

It actually seems like he's even more extreme than his dad.  He's lately presented himself as a full-on Alex Jones conspiracy nutjob and white supremacist.

Like someone who has a copy of The Turner Diaries and The Bell Curve?