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Pedobear an olympic mascot?

http://www.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=327993

Polish Newspaper Mistakes 'Pedobear' for Olympic Mascot

:laughing:

From the article:

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From the fact-checking department: When publishing an image of Olympic mascots, check to make sure there's not a cartoon bear with ties to pedophilia mixed in. A Polish paper made just such a mistake, accidentally lifting the meme known as "Pedobear"—widely used to mock pedophiles—from Google Images and popping him into a collage of the other mascots of the Vancouver Games.

The cartoon bear was originally devised by a Canadian graphic designer, apparently to protest the cost of the Games. Members of an anarchic message board then adopted it.

Haha I saw that yesterday.
I thought it was just a photoshopped joke but...

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The cartoon bear was originally devised by a Canadian graphic designer, apparently to protest the cost of the Games. Members of an anarchic message board then adopted it.

pedo bear has been around much longer than those fucking mascots afaik...