Why Pepe the Frog is not a far right symbol of hate

in pepe •  yesterday 

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I just heard that there is a slanderous article about the Online Market place Steam.

Half of the 'racist' conduct on Steam was posting the Pepe Frog.... Many of you know that the ADL is one of the worst organisations in America, I am pretty sure Trump will take care of them.
I dont want to justify any actual racism, but the government should not scan the intenet for it and make platforms responsible. Funny thing: Most of the hateful conduct seems to come from Dota 2. League, which is a very similar game, was at some point the most racist game there is, but luckily you cant be racist against white people so I can still insult the French.

Proof of racism in League:


I dont want to proudly present the racism in my game, but to illustrate that we had problems. I condemn everything Apo says in this video, but the chat between RatIRL and Smoothie at 4:30 is funny af, if you know anything about League.

RatIRL is actually the most frequent user of Pepe for anything and he is like the only L9 member who is not a racist PoS.

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He is also used as a meme Mascot by far left people like Vaush. I know Pepe from League since like 10 years and it was never used to express anything political. Mostly it was used when a play backfired or you died that you would say 'FeelsBadMan' and people post Pepe in the chat.
My favorite quote around Pepe was the League Streamer Valkirin getting asked why he so often says 'FeelsBadMan'. He responded: 'Because it often feels bad, man'. I was rolling over the floor back then.

Pepe is actually a good symbol for Freedom of Speech: Yes, radicals and maybe even actual Nazis use the meme, but so does everybody else. Just like the freedom to express themselves. Is that a good reason to take Freedom of Speech/Pepe away from the people, or should we find other solutions?

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Symbols are weird sometimes. Take the swastika, which is a symbol of Indian origin, for example. We know that some people who use it are part of a particular group, but not all the people who use it are. Humans tend to see patterns and want to generalize to shortcut coming to conclusions about things, when really, more info is usually needed about a person than just "they have a certain patch or symbol on their arm, so they must belong to this group!" What if they saw the patch in a gas station and just thought it looked cool and were unaware of its implications? Context is key.

  ·  yesterday  ·   (edited)

Ha ha ha …. Pepe is awesome

Pepe the Frog's creator: 'Pepe is love' - The amphibian's artist speaks out.

Mashable : https://mashable.com/article/pepe-frog-love-hate

Pepe is also a great anti-censorship Meme coin over on the heavily censored (downvoted) Hive.blog…..

You can earn Millions of Hive-Pepe on Hive when you add the #pepe hash tag to all your Hive/Ecency meme posts … Stake your Hive-Pepe to earn more Pepe or trade them for Blurt

I also add #meme #pob #cent #waivio to all my Hive posts and earned over $200 USd so far …

Feels Good Man.

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I have been a #pepe enjoyer on hive for some time now. You should know, you took my I meet Pepe in Aachen AI Pic as avatar on hive ;)

I also use PoB and hive-engine as tags on every post on hive for those nice HE coins. Does blurt have a second layer? Are there some rule-free tags on blurt I can use for more $$$?

  ·  7 hours ago  ·   (edited)

There are no Layer 2 coins on Blurt but you can get on the @blurtbooster upvote trail if you ask them on Discord. Or ask @saboin…. I think there are a few rules to follow but I am personally against following any rules ( I delegate some of my Blurt Power to @upvu for upvotes so I don’t get any Blurtbooster upvotes .

You can request Blurtbooster upvotes on-chain by typing the following text on a line by itself in a comment to the post below :

@blurtbooster whitelist apply

Blurtbooster Rules : https://blurt.blog/blurt-131416/@blurtbooster/blurt-booster-introduction-rules-and-guidelines-1699999662965

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