{"id":15869,"date":"2016-11-11T08:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15869"},"modified":"2016-11-11T08:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:26:43","slug":"the-rorschach-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/the-rorschach-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rorschach Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook, a fellow I&#8217;ve known for over a decade posted a link to an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/swastikas-trump-spray-painted-pa-storefront-article-1.2866836\" target=\"blank\">graffiti with the swastika as the T in Trump<\/a> and asked someone to justify it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/trumphitler.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The papers covering it handily as though this is pro-Trump graffiti, quoting all sorts of anti-Trump people hoping Trump will disavow this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Philadelphia&#8217;s Anti-Defamation League chapter quickly condemned the vandalism, referencing its eerie coinciding with Kristallnacht, a coordinated Nazi attack in 1938 during which hundreds of Jews had their storefronts smashed throughout Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Swastikas and the Nazi salute send a message of intolerance and hate to the entire community,&#8221; Regional Director Nancy Baron said in a statement. &#8220;While we view this as an isolated incident, we cannot allow this behavior to become routine. Everyone has a role to play in combating bigotry \u2014 we must advocate, educate and investigate until hate is no longer welcome in our society.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One damn minute, Admiral.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here is a piece of unattributed graffiti comparing Trump to Hitler.  The articles present no evidence that the vandals were Trump supporters.  NONE.<\/p>\n<p>But of course the vandals must be Trump supporters, because people in the media and on the social media have said so.<\/p>\n<p>Pay no mind to those on the left have equated Trump to Hitler.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/cher-doesnt-mince-words-when-she-compares-trump-to-hitler-on-twitter_us_582298ede4b0e80b02cdccf5\" target=\"_new\">Cher Doesn&#8217;t Mince Words When She Compares Trump To Hitler On Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/28\/media\/trump-hitler-new-york-times\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Trump-Hitler comparison seen in New York Times book review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/07\/poynter-compares-donald-trump-hitler-120361\" target=\"_new\">Media ethics writer compares Trump to Hitler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come on, that&#8217;s three examples from relatively high profile Internet locations or celebrities.  You know it&#8217;s been all over your Twitter feed and Facebook feed and everywhere else for six months.  &#8220;Trump is Hitler!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ergo, graffiti comparing Trump to Hitler <em>must be in support of Trump as Hitler<\/em>.  Ergo, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Trump that the left has called Hitler over and over.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/mary-burkes-use-of-swastika-in-her-ad.html\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/walkerhitler.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>Scott Walker is Hitler<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bushitler.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>George W. Bush is Hitler<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, <em>these<\/em> protestors and their supporting iconography were not the work of Walker and Bush supporters, but the Trump graffiti <em>is<\/em> because, what?  That was then and this is now?<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got an incident of graffiti, but <em>clearly<\/em> it is a symbol that fits into and reinforces a specific narrative.  The apex of mid-century American Existentialist thought that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/book-report-the-experience-of-nothingness-by-michael-novak-1970\/\" target=\"_new\">sixties thinkers<\/a> could only dream would become mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the actual realities of the incident, including the vandal and his or her motive.  Concrete details are not the point.  The narrative and the meme are the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook, a fellow I&#8217;ve known for over a decade posted a link to an article about graffiti with the swastika as the T in Trump and asked someone to justify it. The papers covering it handily as though this is pro-Trump graffiti, quoting all sorts of anti-Trump people hoping Trump will disavow this: Philadelphia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15869\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}