Has anyone else noticed that Pepe the Frog's name is Pepe
Has anyone else noticed that Pepe the Frog’s name is Pepe? Pepe is a common Hispanic name meaning Jose.
There’s Pepe (Kepler Laveran Lima Ferreira), Pepe Aguilar, and Honduran presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa (Pepe).
Yet, despite how common the name Pepe is in the Hispanic community, the alt-right haters and Donald Trump supporters have managed to misuse and abuse poor ol’ Pepe the Frog there to the point that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has classified Pepe the Frog as an image of hate.
Yep, you read it right. Poor ol’ Pepe the Frog is not even a human Hispanic and yet he’s being profiled like he’s one because of the hate the alt-right haters and Trump supporters have successfully used to redefine him.
The alt-right haters and Donald Trump supporters regularly send out images of Pepe’s beautiful little green mug whenever they are tweeting their vile comments of hate to colored folks and Hillary Clinton’s supporters only.
Le Croise Tuemaures@MrJohnQZombie, who is the Nationalist Chaplain of the alt right, tweeted an image of Pepe wearing a swastika shirt, holding a machine gun, and several nooses surrounding him.
Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. (Junior), tweeted a photo of himself, his father, haters Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, and Pepe as one of the “Deplorables.”
Junior, however, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he didn’t know that Pepe the Frog’s image is associated with the alt-right. Unfortunately for Junior, his explanation isn’t holding water.
And his explanation isn’t holding water because Trump supporters, like this fella DeplorableRichard@TrollingIsMyFave, have taken on the name “Deplorables” and are using the name and Pepe’s image to tweet out their hate.
Now, there will be those who say that Trump supporters have rightfully taken on the name “Deplorables” because it is a way for them to mock Hillary Clinton who they believe dismissed half of the voting population after she called Trump supporters, who tweet vile comments about her, “deplorable.”
Yet, what those who support the “Deplorables” refuse to realize is that they are called “deplorable” because of the “deplorable” things that they do and say.
And tweeting out the image of a cartoon character with a swastika, noose, and machine gun and calling someone a cunt are deplorable.
In fact, the alt-right haters and Trump supporters are so deplorable that they took Pepe the Frog’s good image that children had come to know and love and turned it into racist, sexist, and hateful propaganda.
ADL Director Oren Segal acknowledged this fact. He wrote in the Guardian that although Pepe the Frog wasn’t created to spread hate, the alt-right haters and Trump supporters mischaracterization and misuse of ol’ Pepe there is what led to the ADL profiling ol’ Pepe as an image of hate.
Segal did tweet that the ADL’s classification of Pepe the Frog as a symbol of hate doesn’t mean Pepe’s original “image can’t be reclaimed.”
But what Segal fails to realize is that the misrepresentation of Pepe goes to the heart of the problem that all minorities, humans and amphibians, face.
Minorities aren’t seen as who they are, but who the haters want them to be. After a false, negative image becomes cemented into the minds of the population, it can be quite difficult to “reclaim” the true image that one has of himself and or of his group.
Take for instance the swastika. The swastika is a symbol that was used in ancient India and it means “well-being.”
But after Adolf Hitler turned it into the official symbol of Nazi Germany, the swastika quickly lost the meaning that its original creators had given it.
Freddie Knoller is a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor who spoke with Mukti Jain Campion of the BBC about the swastika and its meaning to the Jewish people.
Knoller told Campion, “For the Jewish people the swastika is a symbol of fear, of suppression, and of extermination. It’s a symbol that we will never ever be able to change.”
Pepe the Frog is facing the same problem. The image of him as a fun, loving cartoon character has been erased by hate.
He is no longer Pepe the Frog that Matt Furie created for the comic Boy’s Club. Pepe the Frog is now the mascot of hate for the alt-right haters and Trump supporters.
Unfortunately for ol’ Pepe there, the fact that he and his kind are unable to speak human means that he and his fellow amphibians can’t form a National Association for Amphibians (NAA) to protest the wrong done to them by the alt-right haters and Trump supporters.
So what is poor ol’ Pepe to do? Welp, the only thing Pepe can do is depend on a species that is treating him like he’s dirt in the grass.
Heck, even with the ADL acknowledging that this isn’t Pepe’s the Frog’s true image, the organization still profiled him.
It is unfortunately something that all minorities go through, which is getting profiled by the very people who suppose to be protecting them.
There’s Pepe (Kepler Laveran Lima Ferreira), Pepe Aguilar, and Honduran presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa (Pepe).
Yet, despite how common the name Pepe is in the Hispanic community, the alt-right haters and Donald Trump supporters have managed to misuse and abuse poor ol’ Pepe the Frog there to the point that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has classified Pepe the Frog as an image of hate.
Yep, you read it right. Poor ol’ Pepe the Frog is not even a human Hispanic and yet he’s being profiled like he’s one because of the hate the alt-right haters and Trump supporters have successfully used to redefine him.
The alt-right haters and Donald Trump supporters regularly send out images of Pepe’s beautiful little green mug whenever they are tweeting their vile comments of hate to colored folks and Hillary Clinton’s supporters only.
Le Croise Tuemaures@MrJohnQZombie, who is the Nationalist Chaplain of the alt right, tweeted an image of Pepe wearing a swastika shirt, holding a machine gun, and several nooses surrounding him.
Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. (Junior), tweeted a photo of himself, his father, haters Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, and Pepe as one of the “Deplorables.”
Junior, however, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he didn’t know that Pepe the Frog’s image is associated with the alt-right. Unfortunately for Junior, his explanation isn’t holding water.
And his explanation isn’t holding water because Trump supporters, like this fella DeplorableRichard@TrollingIsMyFave, have taken on the name “Deplorables” and are using the name and Pepe’s image to tweet out their hate.
Now, there will be those who say that Trump supporters have rightfully taken on the name “Deplorables” because it is a way for them to mock Hillary Clinton who they believe dismissed half of the voting population after she called Trump supporters, who tweet vile comments about her, “deplorable.”
Yet, what those who support the “Deplorables” refuse to realize is that they are called “deplorable” because of the “deplorable” things that they do and say.
And tweeting out the image of a cartoon character with a swastika, noose, and machine gun and calling someone a cunt are deplorable.
In fact, the alt-right haters and Trump supporters are so deplorable that they took Pepe the Frog’s good image that children had come to know and love and turned it into racist, sexist, and hateful propaganda.
ADL Director Oren Segal acknowledged this fact. He wrote in the Guardian that although Pepe the Frog wasn’t created to spread hate, the alt-right haters and Trump supporters mischaracterization and misuse of ol’ Pepe there is what led to the ADL profiling ol’ Pepe as an image of hate.
Segal did tweet that the ADL’s classification of Pepe the Frog as a symbol of hate doesn’t mean Pepe’s original “image can’t be reclaimed.”
But what Segal fails to realize is that the misrepresentation of Pepe goes to the heart of the problem that all minorities, humans and amphibians, face.
Minorities aren’t seen as who they are, but who the haters want them to be. After a false, negative image becomes cemented into the minds of the population, it can be quite difficult to “reclaim” the true image that one has of himself and or of his group.
Take for instance the swastika. The swastika is a symbol that was used in ancient India and it means “well-being.”
But after Adolf Hitler turned it into the official symbol of Nazi Germany, the swastika quickly lost the meaning that its original creators had given it.
Freddie Knoller is a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor who spoke with Mukti Jain Campion of the BBC about the swastika and its meaning to the Jewish people.
Knoller told Campion, “For the Jewish people the swastika is a symbol of fear, of suppression, and of extermination. It’s a symbol that we will never ever be able to change.”
Pepe the Frog is facing the same problem. The image of him as a fun, loving cartoon character has been erased by hate.
He is no longer Pepe the Frog that Matt Furie created for the comic Boy’s Club. Pepe the Frog is now the mascot of hate for the alt-right haters and Trump supporters.
Unfortunately for ol’ Pepe there, the fact that he and his kind are unable to speak human means that he and his fellow amphibians can’t form a National Association for Amphibians (NAA) to protest the wrong done to them by the alt-right haters and Trump supporters.
So what is poor ol’ Pepe to do? Welp, the only thing Pepe can do is depend on a species that is treating him like he’s dirt in the grass.
Heck, even with the ADL acknowledging that this isn’t Pepe’s the Frog’s true image, the organization still profiled him.
It is unfortunately something that all minorities go through, which is getting profiled by the very people who suppose to be protecting them.
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