{"id":220670,"date":"2026-02-04T01:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/the-senate-attacks-netflix-for-being-woke-having-black-characters-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:36:31","slug":"the-senate-attacks-netflix-for-being-woke-having-black-characters-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/the-senate-attacks-netflix-for-being-woke-having-black-characters-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The senate attacks Netflix for being &#8216;woke&#8217;, having black characters, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Netflix was lambasted today at a Senate hearing for allegedly having \u201cthe wokest content in the history of the world\u201d and pushing \u201cpropaganda\u201d as the partisan claws came out quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetflix has long been a left wing company,\u2019 Senator Ted Cruz bluntly declared Tuesday at an\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kJWddDrezR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kJWddDrezR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2018798777424134460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-MAGA senators were in full racism force today during a hearing with NetfliX CEO over wanting to purchase WB<\/p>\n<p>-Throughout the hearing, MAGA senators attacked Netflix for:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>\u201cNetflix has long been a left wing company,\u2019 Senator Ted Cruz bluntly declared \u201cHow are people at home ..feel even remotely confident that if this merger happens, the combined entity would not simply be a propaganda outlet pushing one particular political view with much greater market power than you have now, censorship in the media and censorship in Hollywood\u201d and \u201chatred of Donald Trump.\u201d<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Sen. Josh Hawley demanded to know \u201cwhy is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology?\u201d<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Senator Eric Schmitt \u201cThe overwhelming majority of your stuff right now is overwhelmingly woke, and it\u2019s not reflective of what the American people want to see, Both you and Netflix both have made a habit of promoting DEI and wokeness. I\u2019ll just give a few examples, Netflix content is synonymous for the modern phenomenon of race swapping both historical and real and fictional characters.\u201d<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2018798777424134460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131866507.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix was lambasted today at a Senate hearing for allegedly having \u201cthe wokest content in the history of the world\u201d and pushing \u201cpropaganda\u201d as the partisan claws came out quickly. \u201cNetflix has long been a left wing company,\u2019 Senator Ted Cruz bluntly declared Tuesday at an\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kJWddDrezR \u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 3, 2026 -MAGA senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}