This is getting ridiculous. I didn't even know who or what Pepe the Frog was until I clicked on the story. Now yet another inanimate object, which has no opinion, thought or position on anything, is being considered 'hateful' because it is being used by folks for whatever their cause is. It is now considered a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League alongside the swastika and the KKK's "Blood Drop Cross". 

 

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The anti-bigotry group said "racists and haters" had "taken a popular internet meme and twisted it".

Pepe has recently been depicted as Adolf Hitler and a member of the white supremacist KKK.

 
Pepe made his debut in 2005 in artist Matt Furie's "Boy's Club" cartoons. Since then, pictures of the creature have spread through the online communities 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, where users can post an image for others to comment on.

 
These are mostly used to express emotions or experiences, but some racist and anti-Semitic versions have spread virally on Facebook and Twitter.

 
There are two Trump depictions that were used and shown in the article. 

 
 
 

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