Spanish fashion retailer Zara is getting dragged on Twitter for selling a skirt featuring Pepe The Frog, an internet meme which has been adopted by neo-Nazis and serves as an icon of the white nationalist alt-right movement.
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The denim skirt — which features two distinctly Pepe-like appliqué designs — has been pulled from the Zara website following the controversy
Pepe The Frog was created by cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005 as a chilled out, friendly frog who led a simple life in a comic book. But it was eventually appropriated by trolls and hate groups online and was officially declared a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League in September 2016
The skirt was first spotted by Twitter user Meagan who was later trolled with an avalanche of alt-right Pepe memes. Read more...
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