He’s already associated with support for genocide.
Comment on Stay Mad
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Maybe we don’t associate Biden with fascism frog
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
gardylou@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]sudo@programming.dev 5 months ago
Its literally a copy of a 2016 trump meme except they replaced Trump with Biden. This meme was deployed whenever Trump would “shit the bed” by 2015 standards.
SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pepe and his variations never represented any political ideology. The only thing that Pepe and Wojak represent is the internet
sudo@programming.dev 5 months ago
SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But it is. A symbol can mean different things in different context. For example, this hand gesture 👌 means okay in Western cultures but means something more insulting and offensive in Arab culture. Does that mean one is right and is the one and only representation of the gesture? Of course not. Same here. Swastikas have been around for thousands of years across many different cultures and has many different meanings. It’s just one variation of the symbol that ended up being used by the nazis and is offensive to most people. It’s silly and rather close minded to try to disregard all these disregard all these different context and meanings when many of them have been around for longer than the nazi variation.
sudo@programming.dev 5 months ago
Please remember that this particular groyper meme is a literal copy of a Trump 2016 meme with the word “Trump” replaced with “Biden” and was deployed regularly by the alt-right. Please keep that in context while you give the argument that its in a totally different context. Its like responding to dog whistling accusations with more dog whistling.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If we let the fascists claim any symbol they want, we will have nothing left.
Pepe was just a depressed frog boi. Pepe is only fascist if we let the fascists win
noxy@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Go ahead and get a few swastika tattoos then
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I used to joke back in 2014 that if Milo Yian-whatever, Ben Shapiro and Gavin McInnes just had a biweekly meeting and decided on a hand sign, an image and a word to use heavily in social media for the following month that everything could be made into a dogwhistle within a year.