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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 16, 2021, 03:29 PM Jun 2021

Fux Noise claims NPR wants to 'cancel' Tom Hanks over Tulsa op-ed

Tom Hanks remained uncanceled on Tuesday despite a push by Fox News to say he had been, in the latest episode of a brewing controversy over how history is taught in America.

Online and on air, Fox News focused on a column by Eric Deggans of NPR, written in response to the actor’s well-received New York Times essay about the Tulsa race massacre and other atrocities and headlined: “Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It’s Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist.”

Hanks’ essay focused on how he was not taught and did not know about Tulsa, in which as many as 300 people were killed in 1921 when a white mob destroyed a prosperous neighbourhood known as Black Wall Street.

The piece was published amid commemorations including a visit and speech by Joe Biden. Hanks appealed for changes to the way history is taught in schools and by the entertainment industry.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-claims-npr-wants-115423301.html

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Fux Noise claims NPR wants to 'cancel' Tom Hanks over Tulsa op-ed (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2021 OP
Oh FFS. Coventina Jun 2021 #1
It occurs to me, Fox fucked up going all in against cancel culture. Iggo Jun 2021 #2
Consider the source. lpbk2713 Jun 2021 #3

Iggo

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2. It occurs to me, Fox fucked up going all in against cancel culture.
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 03:44 PM
Jun 2021

Now they can’t cancel anyone anymore. They need others to do it for them.

Nice try, though. (Not.)

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