MAGA melts down at Tom Hanks playing Trump fan on SNL50 - eviltoast

Summary

Tom Hanks reprised his 2016 “MAGA” character, Doug, on Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary episode, sparking backlash from Trump supporters.

The sketch, Black Jeopardy!, featured Doug again hesitating to shake hands with a Black host.

Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

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    Because it’s all dog whistles so “you can’t prove it! I just don’t like DEI, it’s unfair!” “I don’t like gay people being forced down my throat in all media!”

    There’s always a somewhat “proper” argument that hides the real reason they agree with it.

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      Meanwhile they just use DEI as a stand in for the N-word.

      That mayor is a DEI! This pilot is a DEI! Etc.

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        CRT, DEI, “woke”, the right uses these interchangeably functionally for what the nazis called “Jewish science”.

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        It’d be funny to keep playing dumb about what they mean about “DEI” and why they are so grrrr mad about it until they get so apoplectic that they go full nCLANGer mode like Blazing Saddles guy.

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      The real problem is half of them really do like gay people forcing themselves down their throats but they are too afraid to admit it.