TPUSA Takes Down Tweet Jabbing ‘A Guy Named Weinstein’ After Twitter Backlash

Josh FeldmanNov 15th, 2017, 2:36 pm

The group Turning Point USA is getting quite a lot of Twitter blowback for this really bad tweet in response to a negative comment:

Whether it was meant as a reference to (((the Jews))) or just a bad attempt at a Harvey Weinstein joke (UPDATE BELOW ON THAT), they took it down, but not before getting dragged on Twitter:

glad to see Turning Point moved past the diaper-wearing and got back to bread-and-butter anti-Semitisn pic.twitter.com/9qW2K2dUJh

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) November 15, 2017

Love to hear @TPUSA's explanation for this blatantly antisemitic tweet pic.twitter.com/ZrYOLg7GUb

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) November 15, 2017

Please consider that @TPUSA's apparently anti-Semitic "joke" tweet to @AdamWeinstein could also be an (equally tasteless) "joke" about sexual assault.

— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) November 15, 2017

I've been trying to figure out how this could maybe be a Harvey Weinstein joke… but … pretty much coming up empty there. https://t.co/KNO3lQGAPJ

— Ben (@BenHowe) November 15, 2017

Just some of that totally not anti-semitic “economic anxiety” from @TPUSA. pic.twitter.com/DWIxrnO3Oi

— Anthony L. Fisher (@anthonyLfisher) November 15, 2017

Slim chance this was a horribly botched, ham-fisted attempt to make a Weinstein/sexual harassment reference.

But it realllllly comes across as a straight-up anti-Semitic remark centered around a Jewish last name and money. pic.twitter.com/UMknnyv3rJ

— Tsar Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) November 15, 2017

A public apology will be fine. And not a “I didn’t mean to make the Jew-money quip, I was just riffing off the fact that you share a common surname with a noted sexual predator I hate for political reasons” kinda apology

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) November 15, 2017

UPDATE –– 3:14 pm ET: TPUSA has apologized, claiming it was a botched Harvey Weinstein joke:

A reply from our account had a joke made in poor taste referencing Harvey Weinstein. The incident has been deleted & handled. We apologize to anyone who read the tweet as derogatory in any other way. We hope to continue positive dialogue in the fight against big government!

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) November 15, 2017