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Tom Hanks’s son criticized for using ‘racist’ font on merchandise collection
The Guardian UK ^ | 31 Mar 2021 | Priya Elan

Posted on 04/01/2021 1:07:20 AM PDT by blueplum

Chet Hanks, son of the Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, has been criticized for using a “racist” font on his new collection of merchandise which is also controversially called White Boy Summer.

His black and white range of clothes, which include hoodies, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, leggings, caps and bike shorts, has been called out online for its use of a Gothic-style font that is close to the one used by white nationalists. It’s also similar to the Fraktur fonts, which were used in Nazi Germany most prominently on the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf book.

“Hmm unfortunately the merch looks aggressively racist,” wrote one commentator on Twitter, while another wrote: “Jesus. When I think of typefaces white people should avoid, anything remotely calligraphic/blackletter looking pops immediately to mind...

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: blm; calligraphy; chethanks; gothicfonts; kianaparker; racistfonts; ritawilson; tomhanks; whiteboysummer; wokesupremacy
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To: blueplum

Same type of idiots think Maltese crosses are Nazi and pentagrams are Jewish.


21 posted on 04/01/2021 2:20:21 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: conservative98

I get it. Funny.


22 posted on 04/01/2021 2:27:48 AM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: bagster

Marry me


23 posted on 04/01/2021 2:36:40 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: blueplum

WOKE BOYS, Woke Boys
Watcha gonna do?
Watcha gonna do when they come for you?


24 posted on 04/01/2021 2:47:18 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: conservative98

Fonts are my business and that one is called Old English as far as I know.


25 posted on 04/01/2021 2:51:50 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: conservative98

Nice House of Pain reference.


26 posted on 04/01/2021 3:06:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: bagster

Not really.
Those are written words.
If you look at black graffiti, they can’t spell or write.
That said, this kid is a retarded wigger.


27 posted on 04/01/2021 3:09:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: blueplum

Countdown to when this hits major league baseball.


28 posted on 04/01/2021 3:53:31 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: School of Rational Thought

Note that this article was NOT published on April Fool’s Day.


29 posted on 04/01/2021 4:11:08 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: blueplum

WBA.White Boys of America.


30 posted on 04/01/2021 4:11:49 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: blueplum

Funny, I associate that font with Cholos (Mexican gang members) and roadside memorials, also generally Hispanic.


31 posted on 04/01/2021 4:25:19 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: blueplum

That is the guy who took his shirt off to announced his parents have covid.

Attention seeking behavior. He probably turned HIMSELF in to the woke mob.


32 posted on 04/01/2021 4:27:14 AM PDT by UNGN
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To: blueplum

This guy will profusely apologize in 3...2...1...


33 posted on 04/01/2021 4:36:44 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: rxh4n1

***The Fraktur script is very old.***

I’ve got an old book published in the 1880s that has several alphabets in it. This is one.


34 posted on 04/01/2021 6:01:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: conservative98

Around here, all the Hispanic gangsta bangstas have tattoos in Olde English. Things like ‘Brown Pride’ and ‘Princess’.


35 posted on 04/01/2021 6:04:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Weijia Jiang can see racism anywhere. Except in the mirror.)
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To: conservative98
Guess they'll have to cancel the Detroit Tigers now....


36 posted on 04/01/2021 6:05:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blueplum
white castle slider

Look out White Castle

37 posted on 04/01/2021 6:09:54 AM PDT by Ben Dover
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To: blueplum

Its a shame that if he was black as the ace of spades his OG~ness would be legendary.


38 posted on 04/01/2021 6:13:28 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: blueplum

It’s just a Gothic font, not even fraktur. Wokesters are like a mob of ignorant middle school children.


39 posted on 04/01/2021 6:18:06 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: blueplum

Why is it called “white boy”? Isn’t that racist?


40 posted on 04/01/2021 7:14:49 AM PDT by MHT
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