http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/skittles-pepe-alt-right-echo-stop-islam-explained.html 2016-09-24 01:04:01 Candy, Hashtags and Hate We explore a few symbols that have emerged from the underground into the more public streams of conversation. === This explainer first appeared in the Race/Related newsletter. Lost amid last week’s news of attacks The The connection between hateful action and hateful speech, of course, , is a subject of much debate. But it’s clear that this election season has included both aggressive, discriminatory rhetoric and a wave of new or revived imagery that use a kind of codespeak to bring hateful ideas out from dark corners into the mainstream. Much of that can be attributed to the so-called alt-right movement, a group of white supremacists, xenophobes and other anonymous trolls sometimes associated with their support for Donald J. Trump. (There are Here are a few items that have recently become infused with questions of racism and hate, and our attempt to explain what’s going on. Donald Trump Jr. posted a message on Twitter last week that compared Syrian Critics responded with outrage. But it wasn’t an original idea. Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman known for his Tea Party views, made The choice of candy reminded us of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who went to buy a bag of Skittles and an iced tea in 2012 and was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Florida. For outspoken Trump opponents, though, the Skittles meme represented a clear link to white supremacist themes. Some even In the tale, a mother tells her son that it only takes one Jew to destroy an entire people. Anti-Semitism has been prominent in another meme — many of which emerge from 4chan, one of the largest internet forums — that you’ve likely noticed if you spend time on social media. The “echo” The alt-right movement’s most popular symbol might be Pepe the Frog, a mostly tame comic-book character that has been As you read this, Memes, like viruses, do not respect borders. In Europe, the “ This explainer first appeared in the