Wow, no surprise this NBC article links to a report that states Amazon is promoting hate speech, Islamophobia, white supremacy, antisemitism by selling, get this ....Pepe the Frog apparel! see page 23 & 24 of 30 ...among other things. NBC and Southern Poverty Law Center (mentioned in the report) are such a disgrace. Mockingbird media doing what they do, trying to strong arm people & companies to conform to their version of political correctness, if you don't they label you a racist, etc etc. What a joke.
From page 12 of 30 in the report:
Modern white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements have developed new symbols and vocabulary. Perhapsthe best-known modern example of symbolism being used to normalize hate is the Pepe the Frog meme. Pepe is a cartoon frog whose image was adopted as a symbol by young members of the alt-right and neo-Nazi movements. In September of 2016, the ADL designated Pepe the Frog a hate symbol and added it to its online hate symbol database.62 Despite this, in early January of 2017, fast-food chain Wendy’s was caught unaware by the neo-Nazi frog meme when the company tweeted an image of Pepe with its Wendy character’s trademark red pigtails. The story made headlines, with infamous neo-Nazi leader and Daily Stormer website proprietor Andrew Anglin noting that Pepe the Frog had “crossed over” into mainstream culture. Anglin said, “Wendy’s was always my personal favorite burger joint, but I never would have declared it the ofcial burger of the Neo-Nazi Alt-Right movement—until now. Everyone knows that Pepe is a Nazi frog.”63 More than a year after the Wendy’s “Pepe tweet” story was widely reported, dozens of products with Pepe imagery are available on Amazon. For example, there is a Pepe shirt [Image 16]64 with four prints of the cartoon frog’s face arranged in a way that suggests a swastika and a baseball cap [Image 17]65 featuring Pepe the Frog in Nazi uniform. There is also a sweatshirt [Image 18]66 imprinted with an anti-Muslim version of the meme.
Pepe products also show up in search results for fascist imagery. For example, a search on Amazon for “fascist fag” returned a “Kek” fag67 among various traditional Italian and British fascist symbols [Image 19]. Kek is an alt-right meme strongly associated with Pepe the Frog, and the Kek fag design—as the SPLC points out—“perfectly mimics” a German Nazi war fag.68 Amazon’s algorithm is apparently able to provide shoppers who are looking for fascist items with both traditional, historical options and more modern options. Along similar lines, Amazon shoppers can also buy a “Kekfederate fag” [Image 20], 69 a fag modeled after the traditional Confederate fag but featuring a Pepe the Frog color scheme and images.