Clinton campaign puts out release explaining Pepe the Frog

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Because of this.

I am so disappointed.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Pepe the Frog is a white supremacist, Trump supporting DEPLORABLE!

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BAN PEPE, BAN ALL THE PEPE.

But seriously, why is this a thread lol.

[Trapsy]

OK.

[Dr. Arch]

OK.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

After all the evil and sickening sh**t trump says. this is what you choose to lose support over? lol

[The Other Castro]

What a time to be alive.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

After all the evil and sickening sh**t trump says. this is what you choose to lose support over? lol

I'm being facetious.

still very sad

[Lyin' Steve]

It's just a meme r/the_donald stole because Pepe was crafty and back in the primary, Donald was the crafty candidate.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

What a sad bunch of propagandist PC bullcrap.

[OwlRhetoric]

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

[The Other Castro]

What a sad bunch of propagandist PC bullcrap.

For someone sounding so against PC, you seem pretty triggered.

[Trapsy]

What a sad bunch of propagandist PC bullcrap.

For someone sounding so against PC, you seem pretty triggered.

TRIGGERED.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

What a sad bunch of propagandist PC bullcrap.

For someone sounding so against PC, you seem pretty triggered.

Isn't that how it usually works?

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

What a sad bunch of propagandist PC bullcrap.

For someone sounding so against PC, you seem pretty triggered.

TRIGGERED.

[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:

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

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

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"?

...

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.

Is "GamerGate" even still a thing?

[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"?

...

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.

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.

[OwlRhetoric]

I consider myself a right-wing independent, but yeah, GamerGate was a silly controversy all the way around. I can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about video games.

[Lyin' Steve]

I consider myself a right-wing independent, but yeah, GamerGate was a silly controversy all the way around. I can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about video games.

I don't even remember what GamerGate was supposed to be about.  It was like three years ago, some girl had sex with a guy who reviewed her game, remind me again why people even cared?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

We need to take our memes back from the alt-right. Make Pepe innocent again!

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

I consider myself a right-wing independent, but yeah, GamerGate was a silly controversy all the way around. I can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about video games.

I don't even remember what GamerGate was supposed to be about.  It was like three years ago, some girl had sex with a guy who reviewed her game, remind me again why people even cared?

All I remember was it was kids-in-the-basement vs feminazis and something about that some game reviewers were taking money to write good reviews for studio's games and the reviewers also were anti-gamer and put some of that feminazi propaganda into their reviews and responses.

[izixs]

We need to take our memes back from the alt-right. Make Pepe innocent again!

Low quality meme's like pepe are only really still a thing because of being propped up by groups like the alt-right. Going ancient history, it reminds me of that 'pool's closed' meme that festered beyond its expiration date due to the 4chan crowd's bomb throwing faction using it as a rallying cry years back. But at least that had some attachment to their history. This is... just inane. Just like the alt-right. So kind of fitting. I guess.

[Adam Griffin]

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.

[RedPrometheus]

Although in the 538 podcast they also said that it's a rightwing meme now.

[Erich Maria Remarque]

Lol, it is a gamechanger! As her killing alt-right speech