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Donald Trump Truly Outdid Himself With Racist Fearmongering This Weekend

Tana Ganeva
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AlterNet
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Tana Ganeva
23 November 2015

Donald Trump had an eventful weekend, racism-wise. On Sunday, the GOP front-runner doubled down on comments he made earlier that he'd seen thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the collapse of the twin towers, an absurd claim denounced by everyone from the Jersey City's Mayor to the Anti-Defamation League. Politifact completely debunked it.

Meanwhile, a day after cheering the assault against a Black Lives Matter protestor at one of his rallies, Trump tweeted a graphic featuring the entirely made-up crime stat that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by black people. In fact, over 80 percent of white homicide victims were killed by other whites in 2014. 

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Unsurprisingly, the entirely false racist meme is popular with neo-Nazis. Blogger Charles Johnson tried to trace the origins of the graphic and found it was first posted to Twitter by the user below, who much like Donald Trump, is not shy about expressing his thoughts on the problems facing America today: "sick perverted dildo waving marxism and liberalism," naturally. The avatar is a symbol of a neo-Nazi movement, notes Johnson, and his support for Hitler is front-and-center. 

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So far none of the GOP candidates have condemned Trump for spreading racist propaganda. 

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