You've joined a discord server and start noticing some people are using pepe the frog emojis. How many of those does it take until you feel this is not a safe place?
It's too tainted to be reclaimed without potentially making a lot of vulnerable people very uncomfortable so it's not worth it, in my opinion.
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I'm aware that a common fascist strategy is to coopt popular imagery in order to "claim" it and thus "claim" anyone using it as part of their group, thus artifically making themselves look more popular than they really are.
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I also feel its totally valid for someone to feel uncomfortable by the presence of that meme (I know if I joined a discord server and everyone was using that meme constantly, I'd be a little suspicious.
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