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Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.

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    You can’t spell hatred without red hat.

    (I can’t take credit for this, I saw this comment on this same story elsewhere, and I thought it was so obvious that I can’t believe it isn’t more widespread)

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      how the fuck are we near 10 years later and I’m just now seeing what should’ve been the DNC’s campaign motto from the start? People, politicians, and pundits can argue about “flavors of fascism” till the cows come home, but the hatred is plain for anyone to see.

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    If you’re offending Trump supporters then you’re doing something right.

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    Looking at some of the response videos from maga supporters I realized that they’re the most butt hurt demographic in existence.

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      Bruh, its like everything else from conservatives.

      Anything they say is projection.

      They scream that democrats, gays, etc are pedophiles.

      What group is on the news every day with a new child molestation arrest/conviction? Conservatives.

      They laugh at and mock democrats for being snowflakes that get big hurt over existence.

      What group is constantly whinging online about their feels being hurt over facts? and trying to hide their tears behind the the SDE of impotent rage.

      Everything a conservative says about another group, is in fact a confession about conservatives. everything

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        They think if they are having an issue with it, everyone else must be as well.

        It’s part of the indoctrination of sin from the church as well.

        It’s also a pretty common logical bias from smart people thinking others think or know what they do.

        Apparently we are all the same flaws with very different responses to them.

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      And what’s hilarious is this character is actually dead on. I’ve met people just like this character. I guess that’s why they’re butt hurt

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      If they don’t have something to be angry about, they don’t have anything at all to say. It appears that fine-tuning the ragebait algos for max engagement has had a persistent negative effect.

    • Like a decade and a half ago Starbucks had been nerve to put. Happy holidays on there winter season cups, and the right wing lost their shit.

      They cannot be taken seriously with their complaints about being victims.

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      Liberals are constantly offended because conservatives are constantly attacking everything around them.

      Conservatives attack everything around them because they are offended by EVERYTHING!

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

    Who cares? Time to stop giving a crap about racists and biggots feelings. What a bunch of snowflakes.

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

    Apparently this passes for “melts down”?

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        I’m pretty sure these publications would if it weren’t for the fact that conservatives are litigious little snowflakes. So much so, that I’d be surprised if they didn’t have the word “defamation” on retainer.

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      When your news report the dismantling of democracy and constintution as “administrative changes”, concentration camps and genocide as “relocation” and invasion of sovereign nations as “the 5xth state” then “melts down” might as well mean death threats, violence and burning crosses.

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    That was hilarious. I don’t usually care to watch a lot of videos online, but that was well worth it.

    And holy shit, Tom Hanks playing the least racist person ever to wear a MAGA hat. Not nearly offensive enough.

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      That’s as evil as he could make it. Probably seemed cartoonishly evil to him.

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    They really hate it when you point out their racism, don’t they. Poor snowflakes.

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      that’s because we teach kids that racism is really bad and onlt bad people are racists. These people cannot be bad people therefore they aren’t racist.

      The issue is if you are raised in a racist society, as most are, you will internalize and express racist views from time to time. You are only a bad person if you don’t try to reduce or stop expressing these views.

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    Literally the whole joke last time he was on was that rednecks and black people have more in common than they thought. But leave it to these snowflakes to find a way to feel oppressed.

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    Do they not realize that the point of the sketch was that people have more in common than you think once you get rid of preconceived notions and prejudices?

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    when are they not melting down? thier whole existence is around reactions.

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    Are we still reporting on Tweets as if they are reflective of real human being opinions and not a psyop?

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

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    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.

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    Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive

    While looking in a mirror instead of the TV.