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Do you consider Pepe the frog to be hate speech?
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This is how I see it too.
If not for association with the alt right, I at least see it as a sign of "I am a terminally online dork who tries to portray myself as lovably pitiful so as to manipulate others" or "this is a crutch for my low self esteem" or just...well. Some of this is from my own personal biases and experiences, I'll be forward about that.
So to make a long story short, even without Nazi associations, there's no good way to use a Pepe in my experience, and no one I know who uses him frequently has been a good person.