Pepe the Frog designated a hate symbol by ADL

CNN ^ | 9/28/2016 | Emanuella Grinberg

[simpson96]

(CNN) — Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog has gone through various incarnations over the years, most of them innocuous and amusing.

But recent appropriations of the smirking green frog as Adolf Hitler, a Klansman and numerous racist caricatures have earned him a spot in the Anti-Defamation League's database of hate symbols.

"Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in a statement. "These anti-Semites have no shame. They are abusing the image of a cartoon character, one that might at first seem appealing, to harass and spread hatred on social media."

The designation does not apply to all Pepe memes because most of them are not "bigoted" in nature, the ADL said. You'll likely know one when you see one.

[simpson96]

This can only mean we're winning.

[kiryandil]

[Yo-Yo]

[Sarah Barracuda]

Somewhere Kermit The Frog is saying to himself “What the heck did I do?”

[BeadCounter]

ADL has been found to be supportive of abortion rights or at least, something like this. I don’t care what they say.

[JPG]

Thanks CNN!

[Billthedrill]

[kiryandil]

[ETL]

Any relation to Pepé le Pew?

[Lazamataz]

Ahhhhh, ADL, you think racism is your ally. But you merely adopted racism. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the truth until I was already a tadpole, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!

[glock rocks]

Pepe vs. Ironman on youtube

[Scythian_Reborn]

You guys are hilarious ...

[kiryandil]

[FatherofFive]

Using English is racist! It is the language of the country that colonized and enslaved the world, and the language of racist America!

STOP SPEAKING ENGLISH!

[kiryandil]

[libertarian27]

[kiryandil]

[kiryandil]

[libertarian27]

[The Toll]

Lets start over. What “IS NOT RACIST”? Can we start there?