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2024-09-29 22:05:12 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7081ADAF4B5C7595872F822166B46AFEC3C693D3333FEC25713C5A19C2209908
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The "Meme character" in question is an anti semitic caricature that originates from Far-Right cartoonist Nick Bougas. It was originally used to compare Jewish and Black people to rats and cockroaches. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bougas https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/happy-merchant https://www.researchgate.net/figure/WAR-comic-A-Wyatt-Mann-nd_fig1_335244223
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