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Feels bad man. Pepe the frog has been listed as a hate symbol.

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A cartoon frog tied to anti-Semitism and racism that has become an unofficial mascot of the alt-right has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s list of hate symbols, joining the ranks of 14, 88 and pit bulls, the group said on Tuesday.
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However, because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context. The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist. 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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http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/h...a-hate-symbol.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
This seems to be the case for anything.
 
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Admiral Woofington

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I'm sorry but I can only laugh while imagining a university class going over famous symbols of hate throughout history and there's this badly drawn sad cartoon frog right there on the expensive fucking 400 dollar textbook.
 
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Dryk

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I'm really surprised that channers took this long to realise that they could keep their memes to themselves better if they poison them with racism
 
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This is stupid.
I use it all the time as filler.
It's not a racist symbol by itself, it's the context that is.
If it says "gas the kikes, race war now" then yea, otherwise it's just a frog.

You can just as easily turn Doge into a racist symbol if you start writing racist things on it.
 
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http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/pepe-the-frog.html

The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted. However, it was inevitable that, as the meme proliferated in on-line venues such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, which have many users who delight in creating racist memes and imagery, a subset of Pepe memes would come into existence that centered on racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted themes.

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However, because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context. The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist. 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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So basically Pepe is racist, except for all the times it's not.
 
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Fuck you Pepe. You're fucking green, you should be the last one to judge anyone based on their color.
 
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USC-fan said:
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http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/h...a-hate-symbol.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
This seems to be the case for anything.
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Pit bulls?

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What does the author of the original comic think about the alt-right usage of Pepe?
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He doesn't care, really. It's all swings and roundabouts for him.
He's interested on how it's taken on a life of its own, but other than that he's not bothered. He feels that the context in which Pepe is used has changed many times, and will continue to change.
 
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turmoil said:
What does the author of the original comic think about the alt-right usage of Pepe?
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Serwer: How do you feel about the way it’s been adopted by the so-called alt-right?

Furie: My feelings are pretty neutral, this isn’t the first time that Pepe has been used in a negative, weird context. I think it’s just a reflection of the world at large. The internet is basically encompassing some kind of mass consciousness, and Pepe, with his face, he’s got these large, expressive eyes with puffy eyelids and big rounded lips, I just think that people reinvent him in all these different ways, it’s kind of a blank slate. It’s just out of my control, what people are doing with it, and my thoughts on it, are more of amusement.

Serwer: So it doesn’t make you uneasy at all that for some people it’s become this weird Nazi thing?

Furie: I think that’s it’s just a phase, and come November, it’s just gonna go on to the next phase, obviously that political agenda is exactly the opposite of my own personal feelings, but in terms of meme culture, it’s people reapproppriating things for their own agenda. That’s just a product of the internet. And I think people in whatever dark corners of the internet are just trying to one up each other on how shocking they can make Pepe appear.

The interesting thing about this situation, is that I’m talking to you, and it’s like a newsworthy thing that this cute, generally happy frog character has taken on a life of its own for better or worse. I think what is happening now is overshadowing the importance Pepe has as a symbol for youth culture, and it’s been taken out of context and turned into something other than that. I honestly just think it’s a phase.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/its-not-easy-being-green/499892/

saw all this posted on reddit today.

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Pit bulls?
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The pit bull has long been used as a skinhead symbol, presumably because of its reputation as a "fighting" dog. Many racist skinheads and other white supremacists own or even raise pit bulls.
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http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/pitbull.html
 
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Torokil

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This is so fucking dumb. I can only hope that "this meme made my kid a white supremacist" will be seen as idiotic as "violent videogames caused this school shooting". But I'm not too optimistic.
 
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SodiumBenzoate

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I'll take "signs the ADL doesn't understand the internet" for $1000, Alex.

I can add "kill jews man" to any picture i want, that doesn't make it a racist dog whistle. Sigh.
 
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