Yahoo Retracts Story Of Chris Pratt’s Gadsden Flag Shirt

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ryan Kang

Earlier this week, news broke about actor Chris Pratt supposedly wearing a racist-themed shirt. The image on his t-shirt featured an American flag with a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me” emblazoned upon it. It was actually kind of a cool shirt.

However, Yahoo kind of lost their mind over it, desperately trying to link the image to white supremacy.

If you go looking for the link I included in this post, however, you won’t find the words “white supremacy” in it. Why? Because the backlash was so severe, in part due to the claims that not just Pratt but Second Amendment supporters were racist, that the website killed all mention of the term.

Yahoo Movies UK on Wednesday updated the headline and text of a story about Chris Pratt after backlash over online claims that the “Avengers: Endgame” star wore a “white supremacist” t-shirt.

“This article was updated on 17 July with the initial headline, ‘Chris Pratt criticised for ‘white supremacist’ T-shirt’ being amended to ‘Chris Pratt criticised for T-shirt choice.’ References to White Supremacism in this article have been removed,” an update on the story reads.

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