{"id":108092,"date":"2016-09-28T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108092"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:23:41","slug":"adl-declares-pepe-the-frog-as-official-hate-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108092","title":{"rendered":"ADL Declares \u2018Pepe the Frog\u2019 as Official Hate Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel safer already! Glad to see the Jewish Establishment tackling the issues that really matter. <\/p>\n<p>I am sure the Israeli flag is a hate symbol to opponents of the Jewish state and the Cross is a symbol of hate to those who feel oppressed by Christianity. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Bible, those who love God must hate evil. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with hate when properly directed. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/350989\/adl-declares-pepe-the-frog-as-official-hate-symbol\/?attribution=home-breaking-news-headline-4\">Forward<\/a>: The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has added \u201cPepe the Frog\u201d to its database of online hate symbols. The cartoon frog is a popular meme among \u201calt-right\u201d Twitter trolls and white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Pepe the Frog was originally created in 2005 without any anti-Semitic or racist overtones. At the time, it was simply a meme of a sad frog.<\/p>\n<p>But more recently the frog has been portrayed with a Hitler-like mustache, wearing a yarmulke or a Ku Klux Klan hood.<\/p>\n<p>Pepe has also been used in hateful messages targeted at Jewish and other users on Twitter, according to the ADL. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users,\u201d said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the ADL\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Trump\u2019s son posted a movie poster parody of himself heroically grouped with Pepe and others deemed \u201cThe Deplorables\u201d on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel safer already! Glad to see the Jewish Establishment tackling the issues that really matter. I am sure the Israeli flag is a hate symbol to opponents of the Jewish state and the Cross is a symbol of hate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108092\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361,605],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adl","category-anti-semitism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108096,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092\/revisions\/108096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}