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A very large percentage Pepe memes are white supremacist propaganda or just blatantly racist. They took something that was decent and ruined it. I mean it's like claiming Charlie Daniels isn't conservative despite most of what he says being conservative and on conservative networks. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

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This argument is entirely disingenuous. For at least a decade, Pepe memes were wholly generic. People all across the spectrum used them.

In the last three years, a (dis?)information campaign to align Pepe memes with the alt-right resulted in a massive drop in use of the meme by non-alt-right people, who didn't want to be considered guilty by proxy. You're using the after-effect of the association as proof of origin.

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