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Pepe the Frog cartoonist forces withdrawal of 'alt-right' children's book

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BajiBoxer

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The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has taken legal action to force the author of a self-published children’s book that uses the character to espouse “racist, Islamophobic and hate-filled themes” to give all of his profits to a Muslim advocacy organisation.

Pepe, created by Matt Furie in the early 2000s as a “peaceful frog-dude” with the catchphrase “feels good man”, was adopted as a symbol by supporters of the US “alt-right” last year. He has since been designated by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol, but Furie has been attempting to end the association, even killing off the character in one comic strip and subsequently launching a Kickstarter to raise money to “save Pepe”.

Furie’s lawyers have also successfully stopped the distribution of Eric Hauser’s children’s book The Adventures of Pepe and Pede. According to the Washington Post, the book sees Pepe and “his best friend Centipede” – centipede is a term for Trump supporters – as they attempt to “bring freedom back to Wishington Farm”, battling an alligator named “Alkah” with buds from “the honesty tree”. Hauser was an assistant principal at a Texas middle school until details of the book became public. But WilmerHale, the law firm representing Furie, said the book “espoused racist, Islamophobic and hate-filled themes, included allusions to the alt-right movement and was deliberately targeted at children”. The firm said that when Hauser was threatened with litigation he admitted infringement, and agreed to stop distribution of the book in all forms. It is no longer for sale on Amazon
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...forces-withdrawal-of-alt-right-childrens-book
 
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Ryaaan14

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Eidan

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Centipede? What is it with white supremacy and goofy nicknames, secret codes, and ugly costumes and uniforms?
 
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Buckle

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Feel so bad for this guy that his creation got hijacked by a bunch of idiots and turned into a symbol for racism and prejudice.

Can't imagine what that would feel like. Good on him for not taking it lying down.
 
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Messofanego

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The racist author would rather stop all distribution of his book than give profits to a muslim organisation, cheeky little tosser :p
 
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CHC

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Hauser was an assistant principal at a Texas middle school until details of the book became public.
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Now that feelsgoodman.

Really though, I kind of feel bad for the artist. And the meme itself. I used to like this lil frog....
 
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old manatee

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Buckle said:
Feel so bad for this guy that his creation got hijacked by a bunch of idiots and turned into a symbol for racism and prejudice.

Can't imagine what that would feel like. Good on him for not taking it lying down.
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Yeah, the alt-right is so creatively bankrupt that between them they couldn't draw their own crappy cartoon frog, and so morally bankrupt that they don't care about the person who made the stupid cartoon frog they worship. At least it works as a metaphor for their biowaste incineration of a culture.
 
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FyreWulff

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funny how right wingers are all paranoid about Common Core supposedly being indoctrination and they literally have a right winger working with children trying to write a book to indoctrinate them
 
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remz

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FyreWulff said:
funny how right wingers are all paranoid about Common Core supposedly being indoctrination and they literally have a right winger working with children trying to write a book to indoctrinate them
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It's only bad if the other team does it
 
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elrechazado

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Not that I'm looking, but I've literally never seen a racist pepe meme. Guess it's time to Google how people ruined a funny innocuous character.
 
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richiek

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The best part of all this:

“Under US copyright law, Furie is entitled to all of the profits that Hauser made by selling his infringing book. Instead, per the agreement – and at Furie’s insistence – Hauser will be required to give all of his profits to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,” said WilmerHale.
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ClosingADoor

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How these nazi's somehow picked a stupid frog as their mascot and apparently call themselves Centipedes (wtf) I'll never understand. Who the fuck thinks of that.
 
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Shake Appeal

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Eidan said:
Centipede? What is it with white supremacy and goofy nicknames, secret codes, and ugly costumes and uniforms?
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There was a series of goofy meme-filled Trump videos during election season, one of which used a clip from this Knife Party song. (From 0:25 onwards.) The absolute dorks adopted it as a kind of mission statement/mantra.

It's also why they call themselves "nimble navigators."
 
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LilZippa

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Eidan said:
Centipede? What is it with white supremacy and goofy nicknames, secret codes, and ugly costumes and uniforms?
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Trump supporters are some kind of human centipede. The shit comes out of one and into the next for digestion and delivery to the next segment.
 
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BajiBoxer

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nitronite said:
Speaking of goofy 'memes', what do you find cringier: centipede or 'YAS QUEEN'?
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What? There's no comparison. YAS QUEEN is a positive meme that may have been overused. It might make me cringe occasionally.

Pepe on the other hand was hijacked to be used as a symbol of hatred and white supremacy. Cringe isn't the word I would use. More like vomit inducing.
 
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Pepe is one of the best memes. Shame it's being associated with horrible people.

Yas queen and slay queen on the other hand are pure cringe
 
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RoboGeorgeForeman

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nitronite said:
Speaking of goofy 'memes', what do you find cringier: centipede or 'YAS QUEEN'?
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The latter is a bit grating, but fuck co-opting poor myriapods into this far right bullshit. Some centipedes may be jerks sometimes, but they're not bad enough to have had to suffer through being associated with trash like The Human Centipede and this crap.
 
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