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While I agree with the general concept, symbols change meaning, and the alt rights absorbtion of pepe, is kind of a thing. No obviously the comic had no offensive meaning when it was made, or when it was popularized.

However now, when moderating discord channels etc. I see someone come in with a pepe picture... I know there's a 99% chance I'm going to have to boot him as he's inevitably going to start spouting racist nonsense (I don't use the pepe to justify the boot, I wait for the person to start breaking the rules, which almost always happens).

So yeah, I have to say on the whole, Pepe is like the Swastika. It was made with a peaceful meaning, it was used peacefully for some time, and now racists have co-opted it to the point where even used in it's peaceful original means... everyone's mind can't go away from the bad actors that used that symbol.