Marky Mark, come on, what are you doing man?! This is decidedly NOT funky!!
Mark Wahlberg is getting a lot of unwanted attention right now after his name trended on Sunday as many people remembered how he’s got some SERIOUS skeletons in his closet concerning outright racism and horrifying racial violence. And his response was to… allegedly edit bad things on his Wikipedia page??? Oooookay…
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The 49-year-old south Boston native inadvertently kicked open this whole can of worms following his tribute to the late George Floyd. The Spenser Confidential star’s social media words didn’t sit well with many fans, some of whom brought up the fact that there is (was?) literally an entire section of Wahlberg’s Wikipedia entry dedicated to “hate crimes” he’d committed in his past. And so, users dragged the actor over the now-30-year-old racially motivated attacks on minorities, inspired not to let the A-List star off the hook for his horrible misdeeds.
Several Twitter accounts posted screenshots of the Wiki page, prior to it being edited, as you can see (below):
just a reminder that mark wahlberg committed various LITERAL HATE CRIMES and only served 45 days in prison, so don’t be so quick to applaud him for tweeting blm 🙂 pic.twitter.com/J9ZQBDPmPv
— val ???????? (@mitskiangst) June 7, 2020
Wow!
It’s not (just) the old hate crimes themselves, which included throwing rocks at Black children, the use of the N-word, and the alleged attempted murder of a Vietnamese man, that are getting the attention today, though. Those crimes have been well-documented and, by many people at least, were a very well known part of Wahlberg’s shady past. Now, it’s the cover-up that has people are PISSED!
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As you can see (below), the section no longer reads “Hate Crimes,” but rather “Controversies” with a sub-heading downplayed as “Racial Incidents”:
Hmmm…
One Twitter user was angered upon learning of the “Hate Crimes” section — and even more so after noticing the changes made in the last 24 hours:
“I was today years old when I found out Mark Wahlberg has an ENTIRE hate crimes section on his Wikipedia page. Someone (likely on his team) has also changed the header because it now reads ‘controversy.'”
“Controversies” is certainly one way to, umm, define Wahlberg’s past actions. Now, it’s unclear exactly who is responsible for editing the page.
The content was edited by several users on Monday, June 8 before the page was locked by Wikipedia for a prescribed one-week period. It’s impossible to tell who is ultimately responsible based on those unclear usernames, but definitely an interesting development nonetheless… wouldn’t you say, Perezcious readers?
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What do U make of this whole thing anyway? Judging by some of the cited sources on those attacks, Wikipedia has got to be the last of Marky Mark’s worries right now… but still, could he have been trying to clean up his image? Will it work?!
Sound OFF with your take on this whole unsettling situation down in the comments (below)…
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