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Anti-Defamation League and Pepe the Frog's Creator Are Teaming Up To Save Pepe From Hate-Symbol Status (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Matt Furie, the creator of the widely known "Pepe the Frog" meme, is joining forces with the Anti-Defamation League to reclaim the symbol from the alt-right and make it a "force for good," according to a press release. Furie and the ADL plan to start a social-media campaign by creating "a series of positive Pepe memes and messages" and promoting them with the hashtag #SavePepe, according to the release. The ADL declared "Pepe the Frog" to be a hate symbol in late September. "It's completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate," Furie said in a column for Time magazine. While fiercely condemning the "racist and fringe groups" that use Pepe to propagate divisive views, Furie said Pepe was meant to "celebrate peace, togetherness, and fun." The meme, which originated from a 2005 cartoon, has been hijacked by the alt-right movement in the past several months. Members of the movement have used the meme to convey often racist and anti-Semitic messages. The messages prompted the ADL to add Pepe to its "Hate on Display" database, which documents anti-Semitic hate symbols. According to the ADL's press release on the #SavePepe campaign, Furie will speak at its "Never Is Now" summit against anti-Semitism on November 17 in New York City. The panel will focus specifically on online hate campaigns. Furie published a new Pepe cartoon on Monday detailing his "alt-right election nightmare," which depicts a sad Pepe morphing into a frog that resembles Donald Trump and then a monster. Pepe appears trapped in the mouth of the monster. The next panel depicts a nuclear explosion. Pepe then awakes and hides under his mattress.
And even more hilarious to see them try and turn all opposition to the fiscally disastrous Left into Nazi's.
In the new landscape, anyone who disagrees with the disastrously unsustainable policies of the Democrats -- who have presided over soaring wealth inequality and further concessions to the banking system -- is a white supremacist of some kind.
Nice propaganda fail.
People are done with the party that publicly focuses on social equality (but somewhat amazingly, not populism) while privately focusing on fleecing the nation and siding with corporations.
Yeah, the people pretending the vote is rigged and racist nazi types should go out and "enforce the vote" to ensure it isn't "stolen" lol.
Trumpnazis are pathetic human beings but PARTICULARLY bad Americans. They like to pretend the 1st and 2nd Amendments outweigh the 10th and 14th.
Who redefined the word "Hate" to mean "anything the Jew doesn't want you to hear"? Why, it was the Jew who runs the entire media. And the Zionist Occupied Governments of the West all went along with it, denying free speech to their victims - sorry - 'electorate'...
White people have the right to have their own countries.
Anybody care to explain why they disagree with that statement?