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While waiting for her delayed flight in Washington, D.C., writer and abortion rights advocate Renee Bracey Sherman allegedly received an AirDrop invitation of a Pepe the frog meme on her laptop. Bracey Sherman says sheturnedon her Bluetooth so she could listen to music, and that enabled her AirDrop settings. She was surprised when she received the notification from a source named Jacobs Macbook Pro.

I dont know anyone would would send that to me, so I freaked out a little, Bracey Sherman told the Daily Dot via email. It was quite unsettling and jarring to not only see this racist meme, but it was scary that it was showing up on my computer.

For many the once innocent, feel-good frog of the internet is now seen as a symbol of hate. Pepes creator Matt Furie decided to kill the 12-year-old meme after it was appropriated by the alt-right, a white supremacist and nationalist online group. After Pepe became a sort of mascotfor pro-President Donald Trump, alt-right degenerates, Furie teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to try and save the cartoon frog, but failed.

As an activist on abortion rights and a Black woman, I receive quite a bit of online harassment, and Im pretty familiar with the Pepe meme as a symbol of hate for the so-called alt-right white supremacists, Bracey Sherman said.

As of this writing, the alleged sender of the meme, Jacob, has not been identified. The Daily Dot was unable to verify whether the meme was explicitlyracist in language.

After seeing the AirDrop notification, Bracey Sherman decided to find and confront the sender. She searched the terminal for a man with a MacBook and found a man at the bar. According to Sherman, he had the Slack application open on his laptop, and in the corner read the name Jacob. She smiled and asked if his name was Jacob and if he had sent the Pepe meme. The man allegedly said yes. She then confronted him about why he sent the meme.

He replied that he didnt know why he was doing it and that it was fun to just send images to people in the area, Bracey Sherman said. I again asked why he would send anything to strangers, particularly a racist meme, and he replied that he didnt know.

In response to Bracey Shermans thread on Twitter, many supported her for confronting the man, while others claimed she was being overly dramatic or playing the victim.

And of course, some responded with Pepe.

Bracey Sherman said that shes been in a number of situations where she has faced public harassment and tried to call out the perpetrators. Whether itsstreet harassment, internet trolling, or memes sent straight to your laptop, the avenues to terrorize women are more easily accessible than ever before.

I find that white men often threaten women and people of color in online spaces to terrorize us and remind us that white supremacy and misogyny are all around us, even when were in public spaces, and then gaslight us and act like cowards when they are called out, Bracey Sherman said. Racism is real, and this is one of the many ways it looks in the digital age.

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By Quiana Fulton, The Federalist

If inflammatory rhetoric poisons the well of civility, then certainly liberals bear some responsibility for Wednesdays hideous assault against Republicans.

Wednesday, our public servants were violently attacked. Except, this time it wasnt a man or woman with brown skin who swears allegiance to Allah. Nor was it a man or woman who worships in the deep state of Pepe the Frog and Alex Jones conspiracies while swearing allegiance to right-wing conservatism.

Instead, the perpetrator shares the same political ideals as 50 percent of the country. Yesterday a liberal supporter who volunteered for the Bernie Sanders campaign attacked a political servant, capital police officers, and Hill staffers. Yesterday, our political divide came to its breaking point.

Wednesday, our public servants were violently attacked. Except, this time it wasnt a man or woman with brown skin who swears allegiance to Allah. Nor was it a man or woman who worships in the deep state of Pepe the Frog and Alex Jones conspiracies while swearing allegiance to right-wing conservatism.

Instead, the perpetrator shares the same political ideals as 50 percent of the country. Yesterday a liberal supporter who volunteered for the Bernie Sanders campaign attacked a political servant, capital police officers, and Hill staffers. Yesterday, our political divide came to its breaking point.

What a tragic day for our country, and our democracy. Thankfully, the victims will heal, but what will it take to heal the deeper divide festering in our democracy, where the party comes before country, and the us versus them mental complex achieves victory daily?

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Pepe the Frog is persona non grata at Apple. The cartoon stoner amphibian, adopted as a mascot by the alt-right, is not so much deplorable as he is objectionable by Apple standards, and the company has rejected a new game app featuring Pepe.

Pepe Scream, developed by Spirit Realm Games, is a kind of Flappy Bird game in which users control Pepe by screaming into the phone. The game doesnt appear to be an issue only the use of Pepe.

Your app contains images and references of Pepe the Frog, which are considered objectionable content, an Apple App Review Board employee wrote in a rejection notice to Spirit Realm, VicesMotherboard confirmed. It would be appropriate to remove the references and revise the images in your app.

Another game featuring Pepe, Build The Wall: The Game, was rejected by Apple in October.

The Pepe Scream issue first surfaced on Reddits The_Donald subreddit when one of the creators complained about the rejection and criticized the bunch of cucks at Apple. Cucks is a pejorative word for what the alt-right considers fake conservatives. The developers told Motherboard they created Pepe Scream simply as a silly and funny idea to just show off to our friends.

The app problem is another sad chapter in poor Pepes mysterious and arduous identity crisis. Cartoonist Matt Furie created the little green guy as a gentle-souled stoner dude who liked nothing better than hanging out with his three 20-something slacker pals. The bros exploits debuted in the deadpan Boys Club zine on Furies MySpace blog in 2005, and their continuing exploits were later published in a collection byFantagraphics.

But soon Furie discovered that Pepe was suddenly channeling some evil shit by popping up on alt-right sites and images. Things got so bad that Pepe was officially classified as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League.

Furie first tried to save Pepe, but then simply attempted to bury the past and Pepes trip to the dark sideby drawing the frog in an open casket at his own funeral in a single-page strip for Fantagraphics Worlds Greatest Comics.

But Pepe still lives. And though Pepe Scream has been rejected by Apple, the game is available onGoogle Play. Spirit Realm told Motherboard that its considering dropping Pepe for another character so the game wont be rejected by Apple.

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Over the weekend, Marvel released the trailer for Black Panther, which was met with widespread praise along with vulgar, racist slander.

Adapted from the comics of the same name, the film sees its titular hero return home to the fictional African nation of Wakanda to claim the throne after his father's death.

While much of Twitter celebrated the trailer, some critics called it "too black" and "too militant". Others shared similar sentiments, with far worse language that often included the N-word.

Black Panther is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe title with a black lead star, a mostly black cast and a black director. That has been heralded as progress by many, but some feel otherwise - just as they did about the female-led, female-directed Wonder Woman.

"N**ger movie named after a terrorist organisation immediately following feminist Wonder Woman. No agenda here," tweeted a person whose background image features both Pepe the Frog and Nazi propaganda.

"Now there is a Superhero Villan [sic] that is not only a domestic terrorist but also has racist followers that hate white people," tweeted another.

Website Bossip.com has catalogued some of the responses in an article entitled Saltine Fury: Racist Mayo Packets Are BIG MAD About Black Panther's Blackity Blackness.

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Inevitably, there's a racist backlash to the Black Panther trailer - Newshub