Above: The Trump campaign-branded meme that Donald Trump Jr. sent out Monday night, which suggests that some Syrian refugees are like poison Skittles. (Good refugees: regular Skittles :: Terrorist refuges : Skittles that have been injected with deadly poison.) You’ll notice that we’ve blurred out the actual bowl of Skittles. That’s because, per an interview he did with the BBC, the photographer who took that image said he never sold the rights to it to the Trump campaign or anyone else. (The Flickr page on which it was posted in 2010 is marked “All Rights Reserved.”)
Even more spectacularly, the photographer told the BBC that he is a refugee:
“This was not done with my permission, I don’t support his politics and I would never take his money to use it,” Mr Kittos told the BBC.
“In 1974, when I was six-years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees.”
Good stuff, good stuff. I’m moving to rural northern Canada. (By the way, the text of the Trump meme was also taken from another source without attribution.)
