Donald Trump Junior, who has previously made headlines for posing for trophy shots beside a variety of slain African animals, has again drawn public ire for a tweet in which he compared Syrian refugees to deadly Skittles. He compared supposed terrorists hidden among Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles in a candy bowl.
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Trump Jr.’s tweet said, “This image says it all”.
“Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first”, he added.
This image says it all.
Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Wrigley Americas Denise Young responded: “Skittles are candy”.
But it is also worth checking if the analogy holds water.
Equally controversial was his pronouncement past year that many Mexican immigrants were drug smugglers and rapists.
By Monday night, Skittles was trending with more than 30,000 mentions. But if no country offers the 4.8 million Syrian refugees – half of whom are children – a place to restart their lives, they suffer in camps and then die. This would be in addition to the tens of thousands of refugees accepted from around the world every year.
– Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) September 20, 2016By that logic, you would take everyone’s guns away. Because someone is gonna kill somebody at some point.
And now, David Kittos of the United Kingdom has informed the Trump campaign that the very photograph it used to dehumanize refugees was composed and shot by a refugee. “Now I saved you, cried the woman”. “For every pack of Skittles you buy between now and November 8, we’ll donate $1 to support refugees”.
It reads: “If I had a bowl of Skittles and told you just three would kill you. Refugees are people. We don’t feel it’s an appropriate analogy”. “We respectfully refrain from further comment, as that would be misinterpreted as marketing”.
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As Americans may remember, this is not the first time the colorful sweets were thrust into the national spotlight over a serious, political debate. Others noted that theory of special relativity was invented by refugee, and the iPhone, by the son of a Syrian immigrant.
