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Do you consider Pepe the frog to be hate speech?
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no, they steal everything.
why do we keep letting them steal
'free speech' has always been about the freedom of the oppressed to fight upwards against their oppressor with language - but now they stole it & trying to make it mean their freedom to oppress minorities.
same for 'woke' - it used to mean basic human decency, once again they stole it & warped it's meaning by pretending they're the victims and it's preventing their freedom (ie. their freedom to be a bigot).
same for 'political correctness', which was originally a criticism of using fake concern over moral issues for political agenda (sounds familiar), now warped beyond use.
swastika - used for THOUSANDS of years before the fucking nazis came along & stole it. now the cultures it actually belongs to get hate for practicing their ancient beliefs.
pepe and many others are a long list of things they steal and ruin.
why do we keep letting them steal?
Absolutely. Nazis are consistently creatively bankrupt with few exceptions.
Stealing is easy to do and takes effort to combat. There are things we've stopped them from co-opting, and plenty of contested symbols. But at the end of the day, when the mainstream media picks up a symbol and repeatedly assigns it to a group, it's not so easy to overcome that in broader society.