{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Unmasking an Anti-Semitic Meme Trump Supporters Took From Anime", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/146096168618/", "html": "<a href=\"http://forward.com/opinion/national/342905/unmasking-the-anti-semitic-meme-of-asuka/\">Unmasking an Anti-Semitic Meme Trump Supporters Took From Anime</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://davidsevera.tumblr.com/post/146091590759/unmasking-an-anti-semitic-meme-trump-supporters\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">davidsevera</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nAsuka (full name: Asuka Langley Soryu) is a fighter pilot who becomes \nthe great enemy of SEELE. A fourteen year old girl, she is the love \ninterest of Evangelion\u2019s tormented hero, Shinji. But she is also a \nwarrior in her own right, destroying SEELE\u2019s weapons, giant humanoid \nrobots called Evangelions. (Fittingly for the dark series, these efforts\n are ultimately unsuccessful and catastrophe rains upon Earth.)\n\n<br/><p>In other words, and again oversimplifying somewhat, Asuka is the \nwarrior against the secret Illuminati/Jewish conspiracy to take over the\n world. And in the meme posted on my Twitter thread, she is Trump, \nwearing his signature hat.</p>\n<p>Having decoded the meaning of the image, I then set about trying to \ndocument how and where it entered the employ of the white supremacist \nfringe.</p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t find much \u2014 but I did find something. On a \n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https://desustorage.org/a/thread/136526006/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit-like thread</a>\n from January, 2016, I found a different image of Asuka-as-Trump as well\n as one post saying \u201cIf elected, Trump will bomb the shit out of SELEE \n[sic] and take their oil.\u201d While this would seem to align SEELE with \nArab states rather than Jews, if one takes the conspiratorial worldview \nthat, in fact, the great conspiracy (Jewish, UN, Masonic, whatever) \ncontrols everything, then of course they also orchestrate the world\u2019s \nwars over scarce resources. SEELE is as much behind Saudi Arabia and \nIran as it is behind Israel.\t\t\t\t</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>please god put me in a coma for the next five months<br/></p>\n</blockquote>"}