When You Learn That Pepe Is Now "Hate Speech"

The more accurate version is that trolls convinced her campaign staff (and her by extension) that Pepe was a hate symbol.

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Pepe is being altered and used as a symbol for white supremacy. A bigoted group called the "alt-right" added swatiskas and antisemitic symbols to turn the feelsbad frog into a sign of racism. There's some Pepe the frog in a Trump drawing, and he's a picture of a parody of the Expendable called "the Deplorables" featuring a Trump and some other Republicans. More info here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/pepe-the-frog-hate-symbol-trnd/ http://www.alternet.org/files/ciovm-aweaaqoxb.jpg-large.jpeg

Thx for the info. I will not use Pepe in US websites.

But this is BS. And it set unhealthy precedent.

Srsly I can put those hate symbols on any meme or any cartoon character and it will become racist and banned. Wait, lemme stick yordles into nazi uniforms and post it n several sites. Before you know it Riot will have to delete yordles from the game since they will be hate symbols.... fcking retarded