Facebook removes Trump ads with upside-down triangle symbols once used by Nazis (fake news)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 18 Jun 2020 | Eric Tucker and Barbara Ortutay

[blueplum]

WASHINGTON — Facebook has removed campaign ads by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners, communists and others in concentration camps. Nathaniel Gleicher, the company’s head of security policy, confirmed at a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday that the ads had been removed, saying Facebook does not permit symbols of...

[blueplum]

Point One - never heard of an upside down red triangle in Nazi concentration camps; Point Two - if they were used, they were used to denote 'anti-nazi' prisoners; Point Three - symbol is not in the ADF database but is widely used by Antifa; Point Four - Trump again trolled Facebook, getting them to admit that the Antifa symbol was a hate symbol; Point Five - Facebook is so gullible

[Williams]

Wow according to FB these same red triangles were “once used” by the nazis. Considering these are computer graphics on the Internet, I’m going to guess they were not once used by the Nazis.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Looks like Zuckerberg and Facebook took another Leftist Lie up the butt. Hope it hurts what is left of their credibility.

[funfan]

But the story that President Trump is using nazi symbols is still circulating right?

[Gene Eric]

More corporate Marxism.

[ilgipper]

Point 6. Trump’s campaign manager just shared this exact symbol is on Facebook’s own keyboard.

[Patriot Babe]

Well now it is his misspelled word “TODLER” LOL

[John Milner]

Facebook better be removing every photo with a YIELD sign in it then.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The “truth” sometimes travels very slowly while lies are on “speed”/dial settings.

[Impala64ssa]

What’s ironic is the upside down triangle, in pink is a symbol of gay pride. Is FB homophobic? Horror of horrors!! Say it ain’t so!

[cba123]

Haha, Trump rocks, once again.

:)

[ransomnote]

Facebook is fine with Nazi symbolism. In fact, they endorse it.

The Antifa Flag and symbolism shown in the pictures on the right are compared with their 1933 Nazi symbolism on the left. It's not a coincidence.

 

[alexander_busek]

Point One - never heard of an upside down red triangle in Nazi concentration camps

Well, I guess that if you never heard of the Rosa Winkel, then we can safely dismiss that, right? You're a well-informed expert on the Holocaust, right? And very familiar with all the symbols used in the Konzentrationslager, right?

Regards,

[blueplum]

no “I” have never heard of red ones. Corrections are welcome, I'm always open to new information, although those dripping in sarcasm and self-inflation aren't very constructive, or conducive to learning, now are they?

Especially when I did allow for their existence:

” Point Two - if they were used, they were used to denote ‘anti-nazi’ prisoners; “

[alexander_busek]

I'm always open to new information

There's this thing called Wikipedia...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Winkel

[...] although those dripping in sarcasm and self-inflation aren't very constructive, or conducive to learning, now are they?

A little humility can have a salutary effect.

Regards,

[blueplum]

I did look up red triangles on wiki just out of curiosity since we FReepers are a curious sort anyway.

The inverted red triangle as a symbol of Antifa:

“.. a London anti-fascist named Jim explained to me... his anti-fascist militancy [began] with a group called No Platform, which followed AFA...[and] reclamation of the red triangle symbol used by the Nazis to label communists, Antifa incorporated the name, style, flags, and other symbols of continental anti-fascism, while maintaining the AFA organizing model.
Page 195, paragraph 2, Anarchists Handbook, Mark Bray
https://libcom.org/files/Antifa,%20The%20Anti-Fascist%20Handbook.pdf

the upside down red triangles, with or without one or more red bars on top, denoted non-Jew political prisoners of the commies/socialists/left-wing variety (a Jewish commie would have a red triangle with a gold triangle underneath)

the right side up red triangle denoted POWs, spies and military deserters. They were either blank for POWs or had the country of origin stamped on it. (ex. P for Poland, F for France)

The Holocaust refers primarily to the slaughter of Jewish people shipped to gassing centers. Political prisoners were sent to work camps. The two populations generally weren’t mixed in the same camp, with the exception being gypsies. So I’m not sure how ‘holocaust’ pertains to the question of red triangles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge#Single_triangles

from Holocaust Encyclopedia: “Political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals were sent to concentration camps as punishment. Members of these three groups were not targeted...for systematic murder. “

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/prisoners-of-the-camps

[blueplum]

yah, the gays ‘repurposed’ the pink triangle and nobody says a thing about that. Trump points out that Antifa ‘repurposed’ the red triangle and he’s razzzis

[elbook]

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Record who runs Fakebook so that they can face the New Nuremberg Trials once the Constitutional Reformation is done.

Their current willful Dishonest manipulations will bring them much grief in their future.

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[IndispensableDestiny]

You want triangles? We got lots of triangles for you.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It’s what they had in mind.