ADL adds Pepe to hate symbols

[Belize]

The anti-Defamation League (ADL) has declared a popular internet meme depicting a cartoon frog to be a hate symbol.


Pepe the Frog’s beginnings were unoffensive: he is the creation of comic book creator Matt Furie, who featured the frog as a character in the series Boy’s Club beginning in 2005. The character subsequently became a beloved meme, often called the “sad frog meme” and shared with a speech bubble reading “Feels good man” or “Feels bad man.” It was at times posted on social media by the likes of Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. But recently, as the Daily Beast reported in May, the character has been co-opted by a faction of Internet denizens who decided to reclaim it from the mainstream, and began sharing it in anti-Semitic contexts.

“Images of the frog, variously portrayed with a Hitler-like moustache, wearing a yarmulke or a Klan hood, have proliferated in recent weeks in hateful messages aimed at Jewish and other users on Twitter,” the ADL wrote in a statement. “Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users,” wrote ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt.

Earlier this year, the ADL added the (((echo))) symbol to its Hate on Display database, noting that members of the alt-right movement were using it to single out Jewish users, particularly journalists, on social media.

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[GennGreymane]

No longer rare Pepe dead meme.

[Nadiru]

The Pepe black market must be booming.

[Ehrenpanzer]

And in other news, overly sensitive whiny assholes, were found to be overly sensitive whiny assholes... water was also found to be wet... more at 11.

[Dextroden]

The danger is real folks. Hillary was onto it first.

[GennGreymane]

Feels bad man

[Belize]

Feels bad man

Genn part of the alt-right confirmed

[GennGreymane]

Genn part of the alt-right confirmed

When Trump said your a 400 pound person

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[xChurch]

Oh well, Pepe the bird is best Pepe anyway.

[Belize]

Oh well, Pepe the bird is best Pepe anyway.

[dextersmith]

First it was echo, now a frog. What's next?

[xChurch]

Well as long has Blizzard doesn't add a Pepe SS costume we should be good.

[Belize]

First it was echo, now a frog. What's next?

Harambe. Mark my word!

[I Push Buttons]

"Not all Pepes are sinister, the ADL said."

Rejoice

[dextersmith]

Harambe. Mark my word!

What's that?

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Harambe. Mark my word!

Is shlomo shekelstein already on that list?

[Yvaelle]

Well as long has Blizzard doesn't add a Pepe SS costume we should be good.

Awe but just think about how adorable he would be in his Hugo Boss suit!

[GennGreymane]

"Not all Pepes are sinister, the ADL said."

Rejoice

Feels good man!

[satimy]

The adl and spl are people that take themselves way to seriously. They are both anti Christian and anti white, they are both hate groups as far as I'm concerned.

[Sentynel]

Don't cry Pepe, we will protect you!