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Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.
Outdated? Maybe. He’s not making them look like nazis
Offensive? Not even close.
Honestly, his portrayal is more human than any interaction I’ve personally had with any Trumper (family coworker, stranger included).
Tom Hanks’s whole brand is around getting you to emphasize with the cast.
If Tom Hanks is playing your character, it’s an implicit compliment. An insult would be if they’d gone with Steve Bushemy.
I would be stoked if either one of them impersonated me.
But Hanks was not complimenting them.
He was humanizing them. An act they see as insulting.
I have to admit, you had me going there for a second lol
Empathy not emphasis. Prolly an autocorrect but just pointing it out.
I haven’t seen the recent sketch–In the original though, his character was racist out of ignorance, but sorta open-minded and empathetic when actually facing black folks.
That latter part is probably what the trumpers actually find offensive.
The fuck is this fascist apologist bullshit?
They don’t need help looking like Nazis. They already look, act, and smell like them. And if they look, act, and smell like a Nazi, they are a Nazi
Since you’re from .ca I will charitably assume your primary language is Québécois. In English I assure you that your understanding of the statement is not correct. There is no need to be angry at the person you originally replied to.
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)
Ouh nice one
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.
Ok, ok, I REALLY gotta know what Trump supporters are actually offended by being called out as racists. Like, that’s literally 50% of their entire thing with the other 50% being homophobes.
They’re offended by being called out. Doesn’t matter what it’s about, it’s just the being called out that’s the problem.
To trump supporters, being called racist is more offensive than being racist. Whatever they can use to play the victim
Its because they see racism as an identity or ideology not as an action or an observational thing. I see it with my grandmother who will say some notably racist shit but doesnt see it as racist. They dont like the implication of being seen as a racist because they dont see themselves as racist.
That is true for any racist not just Trump supporters.
Boy do they hate being called pedo after they diddle kids… they are “youth pastors”…
There are a lot of racist who will swear up and down that they are not racists.
“It’s not racist when it’s true.”
You hear this shit living in Indiana.
Being called what they are is worse than being what they are.
They’re looking for any excuse to be the victim.
When you’re insulted by TOM HANKS, then you know you’re a fucking candy ass pansy bitch.
conservatives in general do not understand comedy in any form, unless it involves bigotry.
Looking at some of the response videos from maga supporters I realized that they’re the most butt hurt demographic in existence.
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
GOP:
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project
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
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.
Liberals are constantly offended because conservatives are constantly attacking everything around them.
Conservatives attack everything around them because they are offended by EVERYTHING!
Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive
Well yeah. Conservatives very often are outdated and offensive.
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.
The original Doug on Black Jeopardy sketch is my absolute favorite sketch they’ve ever done.
It’s so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders
It’s so obvious that poor white people would get along with and want to same things as minorities if they could just get over that racism and stop falling for the manipulation by religious and political leaders
Which is why they killed Martin Luther King, Jr. He was starting to make progress bringing poor people off all backgrounds together and that was a threat to the powers that be.
The FBI killed him, Cash was innocent.
Conservatives were not impressed, with many commenting online that they were quick to switch the program off.
The reason why they switched it off so quick because it reminded them of themselves and made those snowflakes uncomfortable.
At least they know how to switch the channel. Don’t want to protest for SNL to be canceled.
If you’re offending Trump supporters then you’re doing something right.
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.
Every one of those comments is talking about how they shouldn’t be made fun of because trump won the popular vote, but did that stop them from making fun of any democrat that won the popular vote for the last twenty years?
Don’t try to ascribe logic to anything coming from the right. Just keep making fun of them.
So winning the popular vote means no one makes fun of you? I wonder if the redcaps have any clue about anything in this world.
That seems to be what they’re implying. I guess they only just selectively thought of it.
The GOP proved that they’re not above randomly making up new rules just to complain the other side isn’t following them with all the “traditions” that Obama snubbed
They really hate it when you point out their racism, don’t they. Poor snowflakes.
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.
Conservative commentators criticized the portrayal as outdated and offensive, calling it an unfair caricature of Trump voters.
Apparently this passes for “melts down”?
Is it more of a slam? Was anyone blasted? Lol
someone torched it.
Yes, by MAGA’s own vernacular it does.
Astute!
Conservative commentators should be written nazi enablers
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.
They simply cannot stand the ugly truth about them, those MAGA snowflakes.
