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Hillary Clinton

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sheshe2

(87,991 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 05:09 PM Dec 2016

A photo of a 4-year-old with Hillary Clinton was used as a disgusting meme. Her mom fought back. [View all]

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Jennifer Jones’s daughter, Sullivan, cherished the picture, now framed in her bedroom, showing a smiling Clinton crouching behind her with both hands on her little shoulders.


Hillary Clinton poses with 4-year-old Sullivan at the event in Charleston, S.C. (Courtesy of Jennifer Jones via Hillary for America)

But more than a year later — the day after Clinton lost the election and as Jones was processing her own grief over the loss — their treasured photo was turned into something sinister. Someone had taken the photo, originally uploaded to the Clinton campaign Flickr page, and turned it into a meme that was then shared thousands of times across social media.

Bold white type across the top of the image read, “I AM FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS!” Then halfway down, text covering the lower half of Sullivan’s body accused Clinton of accepting money and refugees from countries “that would mutilate this girl’s genitals, marry her to a Muslim pedophile, and stone her to death if she doesn’t wear a bedsheet.”


Read More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/12/01/a-photo-of-a-4-year-old-with-hillary-clinton-was-used-as-a-disgusting-meme-her-mom-fought-back/?utm_term=.1ff385009609

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There are some real sick f**ks out there. There are ways we can fight back.
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