Nazis Upset At Trump Appropriation Of Sheriff Symbol

“At least the The Donald hasn’t explicitly disavowed the support of white supremacists.”

Boise, July 6 – Followers of Hitlerian National Socialism objected today to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign’s use of a “sheriff’s star” in an image targeting opponent Hillary Clinton, noting that their movement first employed the star as an identifier of undesirables more than eighty years ago.

Hans Altzeiter of the American Nazi Party voiced outrage that the presumptive GOP nominee used a red, six-pointed star to decry Clinton’s corruption, when the use of the sheriff’s symbol should be the intellectual and cultural property of his organization and its affiliates.

“This is outrageous,” declared Altzeiter. “The sheriff star is a Nazi thing, and Trump, or whichever campaign intern of his it was, can’t just take it and apply it as he pleases to whomever. We were doing it long before he even knew what a sheriff’s star was.”

Nazis contacted by PreOccupied Territory stressed that their objections to Trump’s use of the sheriff’s star in no way implied a defense of Clinton, or that the sheriff’s star should not be used as a symbol of evil. “Trump isn’t perfect, but Hillary would be a disaster for the Aryan race,” argued Jörg Gauleiter. “At least the The Donald hasn’t explicitly disavowed the support of white supremacists, unlike a certain other candidate.” He added that while Trump used a red sheriff’s star, and theirs was yellow or yellow-orange, depending on the quality of dyes available in Nazi Germany, pigmenation was immaterial to the deeper ethical question of appropriation.

“Sheriffs and their famous stars have long been associated with our ideology of racial purity,” insisted Nazi academic Ward Churchill. “In the popular consciousness, westerns, which feature six-pointed stars all over the place, are often concerned with the effort to establish a white homeland in America and to rid the place of racial filth, whether red or brown. It was a natural progression from that genre to marking the untermenschen with that star.”

Trump defenders initially tried to cover up their appropriation of the symbol by overlaying it with a red circle of the same shade, but even that crude alteration failed to silence critics, some of whom pointed out that the points of the star were still visible at the edges of the circle, and that the image was clearly taken wholesale from a white supremacist website. “He could at least acknowledge our efforts,” complained Gauleiter. “But Trump seems to fight the idea of giving anyone else credit for things, as if that might diminish his standing. I just can’t vote for a person of such questionable generosity and understanding. It wouldn’t be ethical.”

(h/t JudgeDan48)