Chet Hanks, son of actor Tom Hanks, has inadvertently emboldened white supremacists and other hate groups, according to a recent report from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism . The younger Hanks jokingly coined the phrase “White Boy Summer,” sometimes abbreviated as “WBS,” in 2021. Building off of trends such as rapper Megan thee Stallion’s “hot girl summer,” Hanks said the phrase was intended to promote an embrace of “fly” white boys.
's report was written about in the New York Times. In an Instagram post uploaded on Wednesday, Hanks clarified that White Boy Summer is all about “love.” “White boy summer was created to be fun, playful, and a celebration of fly white boys who love beautiful queens of every race,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “Anything else that it has been twisted into to support any kind of hate or bigotry against any group of people is deplorable and I condemn it.
's report. found that the terms White Boy Summer and WBS have spiked on Telegram, a communication app that has hosted a number of extremist groups, each summer in the years since the trend took off. Additionally, far-right personalities such as conservative commentator Jack Posobiec have also publicly used the phrase. Posobiec waved a White Boy Summer flag at a conference for the conservative youth group Turning Point USA in June.
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