Plus it's ridiculously stupid.Kermit is a character everyone knows, whereas no one knew the origin of pepe
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2. For at least 150 years (and arguably much longer) anthropomorphic stories have been a way of doing allegories about racism.
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3. I think animals as metaphors for different ethnicities is ancient (it's hardly an accident that Aesop was a slave).
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Yep. It's layered. Mickey is rooted in blackface but now white but putting on blackface.
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There were, for that matter, black minstrels who performed in blackface.
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