When will the so called "actor" Tom Hanks apologize?

Haven't gays effectively had to play straight their entire lives (until relatively recently when being gay has become more socially accepted)?

The apologising thing on Tom Hanks side is also a more recent thing whereby people are duty bound to apologise for playing roles belonging to the more socially oppressed, more often than not as an award baiting exercise.

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It's not my logic, it's societies and more importantly Tom's own as well now. I already posted this earlier in the thread but he's already apologized since this thread was invented:-

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/tom-hanks-straight-actor-gay-philadelphia-role-1235295598/

One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man. We’re beyond that now, and I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.

It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to demand more of a movie in the modern realm of authenticity,” Hanks added. “Do I sound like I’m preaching? I don’t mean to.

Basically he's saying that back in the 90s people were literally terrified of homosexuals, so his was a sort of acceptable back door entry into that world for the common man. But nowadays we demand more as a public and wouldn't accept the inauthenticity of a non gay playing the part, having no concept of the gay man / woman / thing(sorry not sure what the non binary term here is?)'s pain.

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"He did nothing wrong" also applies to slave-owners from 200 years ago who are being chastized today. White Europeans who founded this country "did nothing wrong" (at the time) when the conquered the Indians in what was a "man eat man" world. None of that matters to the Left.

The left wants to apply today's morals and standards to 200, 500, 1000 years ago. At one time, Slavery was "normal and accepted", written about in the Bible and in our Constitution, and it was without moral shame.

I agree back when Hanks did Philadelphia, we didn't have this woke culture that demanded that actors can no longer "pretend". But if Liberals are going to apply today's standards on slavery and the slaughter of Indians (They don't like being called Native Americans), then the same must apply to Tom Hanks. He's evil and must go down.

I'm obviously talking out of both sides of my mouth, so I hope this makes sense. I love Tom Hanks. But the Left can no longer claim him as one of their own if they're going to be consistent with their morals.

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