Refugees are not #Skittles

Donald Trump Jr’s tweet comparing Skittles to refugees caused a furore on social media on Tuesday and Wednesday.

@travismcelroy: “If someone told me three skittles in a bowl were poisonous, I would not want to be friends with that person anymore.”

In a new development, according to news channel BBC, the man who took the photo of the Skittles used in the tweet was a former refugee. David Kittos from the United Kingdom saw that a photo he had posted to Flickr in January 2010 had become embroiled in a political controversy.

He told BBC, “This was not done with my permission, I don’t support his politics and I would never take his money to use it...In 1974, when I was six-years old, I was a refugee from the Turkish occupation of Cyprus so I would never approve the use of this image against refugees.”

@abarbalich: “Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. And stealing a copyrighted photograph is illegal. #notskittles”