I don’t doubt that Steam is rife with antisemitism but we need to stop listening to the ADL.
study done by ADL
aka nonsense article for ragebait lmao
The Anti-Defamation League thinks that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, so they’re not my go-to authority on… anything. They run cover for Western settler-colonialism in the Levant.
The “Pepe the Frog” meme and Swastikas were the most common extremist or hateful symbols on Steam, representing almost 55% and 9% of all extremist symbols detected, respectively.
Some symbols, like the sonnenrad and Totenkopf, are explicitly extremist, while others, like Pepe, are often used by extremists, but their use alone does not signal extremist ideologies.
So Pepe is a “extremist or hateful symbol”, but its “use alone does not signal extremist ideologies”. I’m confused.
ADL and some other groups got absolutely clowned on a number of years ago when they declared pepe a racist hate symbol, and instead of backing down they just keep trying to quietly push it again.
You can pretty safely ignore them.
Pepe is not a hate symbol, it’s heavily tied to the meme culture and its usage is way beyond any extremists group’s control.
Not surprising to anyone who has seen steamdiscussions before. Shit is like 4chan 2 years behind with worse grammar.
