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Jul 2024
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Hawk Tuah: From Harmless Meme to Right W...

Matt Bernstein
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I stay away from heterosexual mess, but this time it came to me. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I work backwards to understand how a 21-year-old bed spring factory worker from Tennessee became a culture war symbol because of a drunken joke about fellatio. None of these words are in the bible.

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