dbwi AHC: Pepe the Frog adopted as a hate symbol

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samcster94

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I once discovered this obscure comic where there was some frog named Pepe who was a stoner. This might be a tall order and a bit ASB, but what can be done for this character to become an outright hateful symbol??? He seems like an odd quirky character, but I can't see Neo Nazis even go anywhere near this character.
OOC: this isn't current politics given this deals with a radically alternate timeline where the President is someone who is not Trump or Clinton.
 
Get the SPLC and ADL to label a random internet meme a hate symbol because some racist people also used the meme? Maybe if Pepe is a "hate symbol" then poor Wojak won't be a "hate symbol".
 
I see Pepe a lot on the edgier parts of the Internet, but it's usually in a joking or ironic manner, usually posted with some kind of "that feel when" meme. You probably need some kind of popular Neo-Nazi or quasi-Nazi resurgence within internet culture and I just don't see how you get that. I know you see racial slurs and some white nationalism advocacy on more unsavory sites like 4chan, but despite a decade and a half of trying, the real hate groups have been unable to push most of the users behind "ironic shock jock racism", which is still pretty bad but at least they won't be holding Nuremberg rallies with tiki torches or something stupid like that (and if it's not happening on 4chan, it's not happening period). Even then, you need some kind of cross-pollination into the white nationalist discourse. It's a pretty tall order tbqh.
 

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Oh FFS!

Saying it isn't current politics doesn't make it so.

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