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Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Hilarious that having Doug on that show was literally DEI. And terrible white dudes are mad about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Yeah truth hurts

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

just watched it, that was so milquetoast I can't believe anyone was actually offended. Shit, they just reused a couple jokes from the last time. That was it. He's scared of black people, that's the joke. magats are scared of anyone with more melanin than milli vanilli, so, uh, rings true to me

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

And the sketch is just so good Eddie Murphy is doind Tracy Morgan with him there. Guy goes off script and almost stops everyone from continuing. Then Tom comes and you know it went hard. SNL hasn't been great lately but this one works great.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Every single MAGAt can fuck off and die.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Outdated? So admitting that your movement was racist, but trying to pretend it isn't racist anymore?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hollywood still doesn’t get it: Portraying Trump supporters as racist caricatures while he’s winning record minority support.

This is an important point, though. Trump's win was in part because of successful propagandizing and winning a ton more minority votes than in 2020.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

If the red hat fits...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"I'M not racist! YOU'RE racist!"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I saw some mags saying it’s offensive and racist, as if they ever cared about that and also, how is a white guy playing a white guy racist again?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Doug seems like an okay guy in terms of how he carried himself and was polite to the host. If they’re really offended over this character they really will be upset over anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

The "Fuck your Feelings" crowd has very easily activated feelings

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive

While looking in a mirror instead of the TV.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago
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