Tina Fey under fire for her Weekend Update advice to “Eat Cake” and ignore white supremacy

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“It’s always fun to watch Fey take down worthy targets,” says Caroline Framke, “but this segment was about as scattered as the cake splattered across the Weekend Update desk. Half of it was aimed squarely at the white supremacists and politicians who indulge or ignore them; the other half was an earnest plea for ‘good, sane Americans’ to leave the marching neo-Nazis alone in the hopes they’ll just ‘scream into the empty air.’” And Amy Zimmerman notes, “while Fey appeared to be tapping into a long history of tone-deaf white women, she was also adding to her own ‘problematic white feminist” portfolio." 

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