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Last week I learned on reddit that "trap" is a horribly offensive transphobic slur. This week, I've learned that Pepe the frog is literally the same as a swastika. So tell me memers, is reddit filled with morons, or is pepe truly a symbol of hatred? Surely if the southern poverty law center thinks pepe is a radical symbol of white supremacy, it must be.

The main thing about that is a lot of people who use Pepe aren't actually nazis, which is why the redditor here is wrong in that "it just signifies their membership in a hate group." I mean would you consider the Buddhists who used the swastika Nazis?
As well not everyone who's a KKK member or Neo-Nazis probably uses Pepe as a symbol either. I feel like a lot of the older members of these things probably hate Pepe, seeing it more as a childish cartoon than anything.

Either that, or me and several of my friends are apparently clansmen and Neo-Nazis now even though we don't share their radical beliefs.

I don't think you're going to find any argument here against that screenshot being dumb. Pepe started on a notoriously right wing site, and nazis/alt right probably use it at a higher frequency than other people, but it's still used heavily outside of that context. It gets used by moderate conservatives, centrists, anarchists, tankies, sjws, neckbeards and even normies. So. It may be associated with the alt-right, but they don't own it. And using it obviously doesn't make you part of that group, or any group for that matter.