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Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate
#23685873 - 09/28/16 09:10 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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So, apparently Pepe Frog is only used by right wingers and white supremacists. News to me? Another group of people getting their baby feelings hurt.
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Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character popular with alt-right campaigners and some Donald Trump supporters, has been declared a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League.
The green icon has increasingly been appropriated for racist or bigoted internet memes and gained traction in the online postings of white supremacists and alt-right campaigners.
It was recently included in an image posted on Instagram by Donald Trump's eldest son. The Republican White House hopeful has also tweeted a version of the frog resembling Donald Trump.
The ADL said the creature had inoffensive origins — including Pepe's original catchphrase of "feels good man" — but had been appropriated for "bigoted themes" such as anti-Semitic cartoons, "a tendency exacerbated by the controversial and contentious 2016 presidential election."
Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center said Pepe the Frog was well-known to alt-right posters on the internet.
"Pepe the Frog is a huge favorite white supremacist meme, it's constantly used in those circles," she told NBC News earlier this month after Donald Trump Jr. posted a picture of a poster from the movie "The Expendables" altered as "The Deplorables." Photoshopped faces in the picture included Trump, Rudy Giuliani, alt-right icon Milo Yiannopoulos, and Pepe the Frog.
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump "@codyave: @drudgereport @BreitbartNews @Writeintrump "You Can't Stump the Trump" … pic.twitter.com/iF6S05se2w" 1:53 AM - 13 Oct 2015 7,639 7,639 Retweets 10,276 10,276 likes Announcing the inclusion of Pepe the Frog in its database of hate symbols, the ADL said: "Although Pepe memes have many defenders, not least the character's creator, Matt Furie, who has called the alt-right appropriation of the meme merely a 'phase,' the use of racist and bigoted versions of Pepe memes seems to be increasing, not decreasing."
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The group said it was important to consider the context of Pepe's online use.
"The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist," it said. "However, if the meme itself is racist or anti-Semitic in nature, or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have been used for hateful purposes."
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Edited by Herbologist (09/28/16 09:48 AM)
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist] 2
#23685883 - 09/28/16 09:14 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pepe for president
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JvF
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist] 1
#23685955 - 09/28/16 09:39 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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The best was the picture they used to show what a monster the characrer is

Cracked me up
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: JvF]
#23685975 - 09/28/16 09:44 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sensationalist garbage.
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist] 1
#23686169 - 09/28/16 10:57 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Never heard of him...
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist]
#23686214 - 09/28/16 11:12 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pepe died for our sins
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Repertoire89]
#23686260 - 09/28/16 11:28 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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RIP Pope Pepe
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist]
#23686309 - 09/28/16 11:43 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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He will feel again
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist]
#23687216 - 09/28/16 03:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Herbologist said: So, apparently Pepe Frog is only used by right wingers and white supremacists. News to me? Another group of people getting their baby feelings hurt.
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"The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist," it said.
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: koods]
#23687226 - 09/28/16 03:36 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is what you get when people who dont understand the Internet try to make sense of it.
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Re: Pepe Frog labeled symbol of hate [Re: Herbologist]
#23687250 - 09/28/16 03:41 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lol I'm not buying that garbage.
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