>Pepe the frog has come to mean something totally different than what his original creator intended. Throughout 2016, the so-called alt-right adopted the lovable, chilled frog as their own mascot of intolerance, leading the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to label Pepe a hate symbol. Hillary Clinton even mentioned Pepe’s racist users in a presidential candidate speech.
>Naturally, others followed suit in their own way. Breaking with its normal policy on allowing fictional characters to display hateful messages, Facebook internally decided to ban certain images of the Pepe the Frog, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents highlight the constant shifting of social networks’ policies towards hate speech, as groups find new ways to communicate and push their agendas.
>“Pepe the Frog has been endorsed by many hate groups to convey hateful messages,” a section of a training manual for Facebook moderators, entitled ‘Dangerous Organizations’ reads.
>Throughout 2016, the so-called alt-right adopted the lovable, chilled frog as their own mascot of intolerance, leading the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to label Pepe a hate symbol. Hillary Clinton even mentioned Pepe’s racist users in a presidential candidate speech. I like how the order of events is perfectly inverted here.
They have been at the point that if they see anything even vaguely being associated with the “alt-right” then it must be a hate symbol for a while now >anything from European history is racist >vapor wave is racist >milk is racist >papa Johns was racist for like five minutes We couldn’t just take over individuals and make the left hate them, but establishments and inanimate objects we can. Even if said establishment disowns us preferably with leftists demands to disown us it will do is red pill more normies on how retarded the left is
Luis Sullivan
this frog was part of the online drug scene before 4chins.
