Assistant Principal Defends Pepe The Frog Children's Book

[Initech]

Without context, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede looks like a fairly standard children's book. Its cover features a smiling frog with its left arm around a friendly looking centipede, and its pages are filled with Wishington Farm's anthropomorphic animals talking to each other.

With context, however, the self-published book, written by Denton ISD assistant principal Eric Hauser, is anything but standard. Pepe the Frog is an animated character, created by Matt Furie for an unrelated comic strip, that's become the symbol of Donald Trump's fans on Reddit, 4Chan and Twitter. Pepe is often used on posts authored by U.S. ethno-nationalists.

"There is a large group of people that are trying to silence this book," Hauser tells the Dallas Observer. "I've been called all sorts of things, from being a white supremacist to you name it."

Hauser says the use of Pepe has drawn fire, and he acknowledges that the book has political overtones.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/denton-isd-assistant-principal-pens-childrens-book-starring-trump-mascot-pepe-the-frog-9754953

[ProudLib72]

1. Hurl blessed buds at an aligator?

Hauser drank the koolaid, lots and lots of it. Now he's a hippy neo-Nazi.

[Bladewire]

2. Wow what a creep