Clinton campaign puts out release explaining Pepe the Frog

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Can we just stop and think about the fact that there is an article on Hillary Clinton's website called "Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer"?

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Wow, Hillary's writers suck. Can't even accurately report about a meme that's been around since 2011.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog

First of all, it's been around since 2005.

Second of all, I partially agree with your point, but Clinton's website does acknowledge that:

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Third of all, I'm pretty sure Know Your Meme is now GamerGate-controlled FYI.

[Figueira]

Can we just stop and think about the fact that there is an article on Hillary Clinton's website called "Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer"?

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Wow, Hillary's writers suck. Can't even accurately report about a meme that's been around since 2011.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog

First of all, it's been around since 2005.

Second of all, I partially agree with your point, but Clinton's website does acknowledge that:

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Third of all, I'm pretty sure Know Your Meme is now GamerGate-controlled FYI.

Is "GamerGate" even still a thing?

I don't know. I think most of the people involved stopped caring about that and started caring about Trump's campaign.

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This is a pretty stupid hill on which to plant a flag. Associating Pepe with white supremacy? It was just such a prevalent meme that everybody picked up on it and began using it (including white supremacists).

This is going to look so dumb to anybody under 30; way to reinforce the classic "Clinton is out-of-touch" stereotype. There goes 5 points of Millennial support! The sad thing is, it was probably Millennials who wrote this silliness in the first place.

Clinton is off on her meme game.

If any member of my generatiom will change their votes because of Pepe the Frog, then my generation is stupider than I thought.