How Tom Hanks’s Son Spawned a Hateful Meme Online

When Chet Hanks first used the phrase “white boy summer,” it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white supremacists and other hate groups. Hanks, Chet (1990- ), Right-Wing Extremism and Alt-Right, Whites, Social Media, Race and Ethnicity, Anti-Semitism, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Discrimination, Men and Boys, Homosexuality and Bisexuality When Chet Hanks first used the phrase “white boy summer,” it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white supremacists and other hate groups. NYT > Business

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