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Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right

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I'm skeptical that a copyright can be pressed at this point, seeing as no action was taken for years as Pepe memes were created and used on 4chan and elsewhere. The creator is on record as having knowledge of their use for quite some time, if I'm remembering correctly.

Couldn't this backfire? The more the author protests exclusively against "alt-right" usage of his creation, doesn't the use of the logo become fair use as political satire?

I've never read the original comics while Pepe as meme is spammed through chats at compsci uni (because it's fun), it's very popular as meme.

The majority of racist and sexist memes are used as way to ridicule virtue-signaling of positive discrimination for people of color, women, etc.

I find this pretty funny. I never got the pepe popularity but this is a good outcome IMHO.

The careless bundling of everyone under the sun into the "alt-right" category is getting out of hand.

I don't care what you think about the shitposters on r/The_Donald or Mike Cernovich, but they aren't anything close to advocates for the white identity politics advocated by the "alt-right".

I don't see on what axis you could meaningfully separate Cernovich from the rest of the "alt-right" - the hateful conspiracy theory stuff aside, he says things like "diversity is code for white genocide."

How about on the axis of "believes in white racial superiority"?

The claim of the "alt-right" is that Western civilization is intimately tied to the white race. Here's a video of Jared Taylor explaining the "alt right": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnDm7OxuU4

It's also worth noting that alt-right wasn't even well-defined until 2016. As it became clearer, plenty of people (including Cernovich) publically denounced and distanced themselves.

None of this is a broader defense of Cernovich, who I maintain is creepy and lacking in substance, but the careless lumping in of mainstream conservatives, nationalists, internet trolls, Pepe the Frog, etc into the "alt-right" bucket is not helpful.

Seeing as Hillary calls half of all the Trump voters as alt-right, and half of the voters voted for Trump, that would make 1/4 of all the voters alt-right. I guess we can now divide the American voters into 4 equal sections. Alt-left, left, right and alt-right.

Just remember, advertisers and politician use words like alt, nano, micro, easy payments, etc. in ways that you may no be used to using them.

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