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A popular cartoon character
turned Internet meme, Pepe the frog, has been added to the Anti-Defamation League's
database of hate symbols In a press release, the organization wrote, the character had been, quote, "Used by haters on social media to suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions as a hate symbol." Matt's name
was in the description about it on the website
turned Internet meme, Pepe the frog, has been added to the Anti-Defamation League's
database of hate symbols In a press release, the organization wrote, the character had been, quote, "Used by haters on social media to suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions as a hate symbol." Matt's name
was in the description about it on the website
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A popular cartoon character
turned Internet meme,
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Pepe the frog, has been added to
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the Anti-Defamation League's
database of hate symbols
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In a press release, the organization wrote,
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the character had been, quote,
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"Used by haters on social media
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to suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions
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as a hate symbol."
00:00:18.975 --> 00:00:21.238
Matt's name
was in the description
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about it on the website.
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Movie Summary
Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
