Woke Culture Comes For Tom Hanks For Playing “Righteous White Men”
Wow. Yesterday I wrote of Woke Culture rearing its ignorant and ugly head in a New Jersey Board of Education meeting where names of all holidays were removed from the…
Wow. Yesterday I wrote of Woke Culture rearing its ignorant and ugly head in a New Jersey Board of Education meeting where names of all holidays were removed from the school calendar. I honestly didn't think I would see something this week that would rival that in stupidity. I made it almost 24 hours. NPR (the bastion of liberal bias and blind stupidity) Entertainment Critic Eric Deggans wrote an Op-Ed of Tom Hanks. Yes, THAT Tom Hanks. He, himself is as liberal as the day is long, yet universally beloved by all, right? Anyway, here's what's written: "He's built a career playing righteous white men." Further he suggests that Hanks and others are personally responsible for the elevation of white culture over others. Here's a portion of his piece.
"Over the years, [Hanks] has starred in a lot of big movies about historical events, including Saving Private Ryan, Greyhound, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Bridge of Spies and News of the World. He has served as a producer or executive producer on even more films and TV shows based on American history, including Band of Brothers, The Pacific, John Adams and From the Earth to the Moon. He was an executive producer of documentaries such as The Assassination of President Kennedy and The Sixties on CNN.
In other words, he is a baby boomer star who has built a sizable part of his career on stories about American white men Doing the Right Thing. He even plays a former Confederate soldier in one of his latest films, News of the World, standing up for a blond, white girl who had been kidnapped and raised by a Native American tribe."
The part about this that is more laughable than others is that in a great majority of the movies complained about here, he's playing historical figures. In other words, the stories are true. You can't change history. Or, maybe this idiot feels that we need to, so that a ridiculous modern narrative is satisfied. What EXACTLY does Mr. Deggans think should be done here? In the true story of Apollo 13, should we falsely make one of the astronauts be of another race and have that person now do what Jim Lovell (Hanks' character and the commander of that NASA mission) actually did? Or how about a film not mentioned here, "Sully." That's the movie that tells the story of Captain Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger making an emergency landing of a US Air Flight on the Hudson saving an entire aircraft of souls bound for Charlotte from New York. Should we now suggest that Sully wasn't a white man of Jewish descent, but one of another race just for the sake of doing it?
By the way, in all fairness, here's the link to Mr. Deggans piece. As I re-read before posting, I'm stunned to realize it begins as one of praise and turns into a hit piece. If his beef is that Hanks hasn't picked professional projects to do that tell the stories of great feats of men of other races, ok. That's a weak criticism, but ok. However, that's not the vibe I'm getting here. It's Tuesday. What idiotic maneuver of Woke Culture will I get hit in the face with tomorrow.
