The Anti-Defamation League officially declared “Pepe the Frog” to be racist and anti-Semitic as it added the cartoon character to its database of “hate symbols” on Tuesday. The popular image, also known on the internet as the “sad frog,” has been used as a versatile base for memes...
The Anti-Defamation League hasrecently started listing Pepein its database of hate symbols, alongside theswastikaand theconfederate flag. It’s the first time the meme is officially marked as racist by a national institution. So where do we go from here? The ADL writes: However, because so ...
Greenblatt, the CEO of ADL said in the release. "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 "Hate on Display" database, which was formed back in 2000 ...
The group has entered it into a ‘hate symboldatabase’, where the anti-police acronym“ACAB”and Ku Klux Klan insignia can also be found. “Images of the frog, variously portrayed with a Hitler-like moustache, wearing a yarmulke or a Klan hood, have proliferated in recent weeks in hatefu...
bigotrywas alarming and led to itsinclusion in the Anti-Defamation League’s hate symbol database. However, it was noted that not all Pepe memes were hate-based. This appropriation of Pepe caused distress to creator Matt Furie,who even took legal actionagainst the misuse of his frog cartoon....
Pepe started out life as a friendly, chilled frog, who maybe liked to get stoned and live a simple life - and his creator wants him back like that. SEE ALSO:Pepe the Frog cartoon added to online hate symbol database Writing inTimeThursday, Pepe's progenitor Matt Furie says he's reclaimi...
There is an mdb_stat command in the LMDB source that can print statistics about the database but it's not routinely built. This can be built with the following command: $ cd ~/pepeprivate/external/liblmdb && make The output of mdb_stat -ea <path to blockchain dir> will indicate incon...
Although Pepe the Frog has been added to the Hate on Display database, the ADL has expressed that in most cases, the use of his image online is innocent. Despite this sentiment, the creator of Pepe the Frog, Matt Furie, was horrified that his creation had become a symbol of intolerance...
Members of the ‘alt-right,’ neo-nazis, and internet trolls created Pepe images with racist symbols and hateful imagery which quickly proliferated, and Pepe became associated with those groups. In 2016, the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe to its online database of hate symbols. Our podcast...
Data dredging: I have 25,153 variables in my database. I compare all these variables against each other to find ones that randomly match up. That's 632,673,409 correlation calculations! This is called “data dredging.” Instead of starting with a hypothesis and testi...