Sep 15, 2017
In a display of a solidarity with the black female ESPN sportscaster under attack by the White House for calling out President Donald Trump as a "white supremacist" earlier this week, the hashtag #NaziBucketChallenge was going viral on Friday as people from all walks of life waited to see if they would receive the same kind of harsh treatment for criticizing the president publicly.
\u201cI am a 65 year old white lady and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist.\n\nAnyone else? https://t.co/PzUVvyIR9t\u201d— Ruth Ann vaxed & masked (@Ruth Ann vaxed & masked) 1505488946
\u201cI'm a self employed small business owner and I know trump is a white supremacist #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt (@TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt) 1505488956
\u201cI'm a goat farmer in rural Texas and I am comfortably reiterating that Trump is a white supremacist. #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— Blue Heron Farm (@Blue Heron Farm) 1505488623
\u201cI'm a grouchy, old, angry, white guy veteran and even I can see that Trump is a goddamn white supremacist a-hole. #NaziBucketChallenge \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\udd95\u201d— chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social (@chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social) 1505477642
It all started on Monday, when ESPN anchor Jemele Hill called Trump a white supremacist on her Twitter account.
The controversy intensifed, however, after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders publicly called for Hill's firing during a White House press briefing on Wednesday.
But Hill's criticism, which is widely shared among private citizens and public figures, hardly came out of nowhere.
Her tweet followed, among other examples, the firestorm surrounding Trump's response to last month's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in which he failed to denounce the neo-Nazis who organized the gathering and insisted that counter-protesters were equally to blame for the violence that erupted.
The comments also came two weeks after Trump's pardon of his longtime supporter Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who detained Latinos with no evidence of any wrongdoing and established a detention center that he compared favorably to a Nazi concentration camp.
The president's former top strategist, Steve Bannon, also has well-established ties to white supremacists, having served as the executive director of Breitbart News both before and after his work with Trump.
Hill later deleted the tweet and clarified that the views she had expressed were her own and not her employer's; ESPN said Thursday it had accepted her apology. But that didn't stop Trump from wading into the controversy and demanding an apology from ESPN in an early-morning missive on Friday.
\u201cESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1505474408
A number of well-known Trump critics spoke out in solidarity with Hill--and challenged the White House to call for their dismissal as well.
\u201cI'm in television and I'm also calling President Trump a white supremacist. Anyone else?\u201d— Michael Green (@Michael Green) 1505334324
\u201cI'm a sports writing guy. I am also calling Trump a white supremacist. Come fire me, @SarahHuckabee. #StandWithJemele https://t.co/94eFf6Yvg8\u201d— Dave Zirin (@Dave Zirin) 1505348854
\u201cFrom his history, performance & statements, Pres. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Please alert HBO i need to be fired. Also, fuck off.\u201d— David Simon (@David Simon) 1505339409
\u201cI'm a mother/wife/other and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist. \n\nYour turn! Ready? Go! https://t.co/ybO387cFsj\u201d— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa Milano) 1505449793
\u201cTrump is a white supremacist. You gonna say I should be fired too @PressSec? #FIRESARAH\u201d— Scott Dworkin (@Scott Dworkin) 1505353585
The campaign picked up speed following Trump's statement on Thursday in which he repeated his views on the violence in Charlottesville, saying that there were "some pretty bad dudes" among the anti-racism counter-protesters. Everyday Americans began using the #NaziBucketChallenge hashtag, making it clear that Trump's white supremacist views have been noticed by people of all races, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, and genders.
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In a display of a solidarity with the black female ESPN sportscaster under attack by the White House for calling out President Donald Trump as a "white supremacist" earlier this week, the hashtag #NaziBucketChallenge was going viral on Friday as people from all walks of life waited to see if they would receive the same kind of harsh treatment for criticizing the president publicly.
\u201cI am a 65 year old white lady and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist.\n\nAnyone else? https://t.co/PzUVvyIR9t\u201d— Ruth Ann vaxed & masked (@Ruth Ann vaxed & masked) 1505488946
\u201cI'm a self employed small business owner and I know trump is a white supremacist #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt (@TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt) 1505488956
\u201cI'm a goat farmer in rural Texas and I am comfortably reiterating that Trump is a white supremacist. #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— Blue Heron Farm (@Blue Heron Farm) 1505488623
\u201cI'm a grouchy, old, angry, white guy veteran and even I can see that Trump is a goddamn white supremacist a-hole. #NaziBucketChallenge \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\udd95\u201d— chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social (@chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social) 1505477642
It all started on Monday, when ESPN anchor Jemele Hill called Trump a white supremacist on her Twitter account.
The controversy intensifed, however, after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders publicly called for Hill's firing during a White House press briefing on Wednesday.
But Hill's criticism, which is widely shared among private citizens and public figures, hardly came out of nowhere.
Her tweet followed, among other examples, the firestorm surrounding Trump's response to last month's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in which he failed to denounce the neo-Nazis who organized the gathering and insisted that counter-protesters were equally to blame for the violence that erupted.
The comments also came two weeks after Trump's pardon of his longtime supporter Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who detained Latinos with no evidence of any wrongdoing and established a detention center that he compared favorably to a Nazi concentration camp.
The president's former top strategist, Steve Bannon, also has well-established ties to white supremacists, having served as the executive director of Breitbart News both before and after his work with Trump.
Hill later deleted the tweet and clarified that the views she had expressed were her own and not her employer's; ESPN said Thursday it had accepted her apology. But that didn't stop Trump from wading into the controversy and demanding an apology from ESPN in an early-morning missive on Friday.
\u201cESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1505474408
A number of well-known Trump critics spoke out in solidarity with Hill--and challenged the White House to call for their dismissal as well.
\u201cI'm in television and I'm also calling President Trump a white supremacist. Anyone else?\u201d— Michael Green (@Michael Green) 1505334324
\u201cI'm a sports writing guy. I am also calling Trump a white supremacist. Come fire me, @SarahHuckabee. #StandWithJemele https://t.co/94eFf6Yvg8\u201d— Dave Zirin (@Dave Zirin) 1505348854
\u201cFrom his history, performance & statements, Pres. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Please alert HBO i need to be fired. Also, fuck off.\u201d— David Simon (@David Simon) 1505339409
\u201cI'm a mother/wife/other and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist. \n\nYour turn! Ready? Go! https://t.co/ybO387cFsj\u201d— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa Milano) 1505449793
\u201cTrump is a white supremacist. You gonna say I should be fired too @PressSec? #FIRESARAH\u201d— Scott Dworkin (@Scott Dworkin) 1505353585
The campaign picked up speed following Trump's statement on Thursday in which he repeated his views on the violence in Charlottesville, saying that there were "some pretty bad dudes" among the anti-racism counter-protesters. Everyday Americans began using the #NaziBucketChallenge hashtag, making it clear that Trump's white supremacist views have been noticed by people of all races, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, and genders.
In a display of a solidarity with the black female ESPN sportscaster under attack by the White House for calling out President Donald Trump as a "white supremacist" earlier this week, the hashtag #NaziBucketChallenge was going viral on Friday as people from all walks of life waited to see if they would receive the same kind of harsh treatment for criticizing the president publicly.
\u201cI am a 65 year old white lady and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist.\n\nAnyone else? https://t.co/PzUVvyIR9t\u201d— Ruth Ann vaxed & masked (@Ruth Ann vaxed & masked) 1505488946
\u201cI'm a self employed small business owner and I know trump is a white supremacist #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt (@TheSupremeCourtIsSupremelyCorrupt) 1505488956
\u201cI'm a goat farmer in rural Texas and I am comfortably reiterating that Trump is a white supremacist. #NaziBucketChallenge\u201d— Blue Heron Farm (@Blue Heron Farm) 1505488623
\u201cI'm a grouchy, old, angry, white guy veteran and even I can see that Trump is a goddamn white supremacist a-hole. #NaziBucketChallenge \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\udd95\u201d— chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social (@chaplinlives also chaplinlives@mastodon.social) 1505477642
It all started on Monday, when ESPN anchor Jemele Hill called Trump a white supremacist on her Twitter account.
The controversy intensifed, however, after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders publicly called for Hill's firing during a White House press briefing on Wednesday.
But Hill's criticism, which is widely shared among private citizens and public figures, hardly came out of nowhere.
Her tweet followed, among other examples, the firestorm surrounding Trump's response to last month's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, in which he failed to denounce the neo-Nazis who organized the gathering and insisted that counter-protesters were equally to blame for the violence that erupted.
The comments also came two weeks after Trump's pardon of his longtime supporter Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who detained Latinos with no evidence of any wrongdoing and established a detention center that he compared favorably to a Nazi concentration camp.
The president's former top strategist, Steve Bannon, also has well-established ties to white supremacists, having served as the executive director of Breitbart News both before and after his work with Trump.
Hill later deleted the tweet and clarified that the views she had expressed were her own and not her employer's; ESPN said Thursday it had accepted her apology. But that didn't stop Trump from wading into the controversy and demanding an apology from ESPN in an early-morning missive on Friday.
\u201cESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1505474408
A number of well-known Trump critics spoke out in solidarity with Hill--and challenged the White House to call for their dismissal as well.
\u201cI'm in television and I'm also calling President Trump a white supremacist. Anyone else?\u201d— Michael Green (@Michael Green) 1505334324
\u201cI'm a sports writing guy. I am also calling Trump a white supremacist. Come fire me, @SarahHuckabee. #StandWithJemele https://t.co/94eFf6Yvg8\u201d— Dave Zirin (@Dave Zirin) 1505348854
\u201cFrom his history, performance & statements, Pres. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Please alert HBO i need to be fired. Also, fuck off.\u201d— David Simon (@David Simon) 1505339409
\u201cI'm a mother/wife/other and I am calling Trump a White Supremacist. \n\nYour turn! Ready? Go! https://t.co/ybO387cFsj\u201d— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa Milano) 1505449793
\u201cTrump is a white supremacist. You gonna say I should be fired too @PressSec? #FIRESARAH\u201d— Scott Dworkin (@Scott Dworkin) 1505353585
The campaign picked up speed following Trump's statement on Thursday in which he repeated his views on the violence in Charlottesville, saying that there were "some pretty bad dudes" among the anti-racism counter-protesters. Everyday Americans began using the #NaziBucketChallenge hashtag, making it clear that Trump's white supremacist views have been noticed by people of all races, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, and genders.
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