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Breaking News: Harrison Butker Said, ‘We Should Go Back To a Better Time, Like the ’50s and 60s’?
showing a supposed statement from Kansas City Chiefs kicker and three-time Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker. Users claimed the words in the quote meme were Butker’s official response to backlash that followed his May 11 commencement speech at Kansas’ Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school.
X displayed to over 1 million users, the meme showing a photo of Butker read, “Everyone is taking what I said out of context. All I said is that we should go back to a better time, like the 50s and 60s. When men were men, and women had more babies than thoughts. When the only ‘Me too’ movement was one woman saying she was ready for her 4th child, and another woman agreeing.” The end of the meme added Butker’s name with the words “on setting the record straight.”quote meme as genuine also received more than 1.4 million views within one day of being uploaded, making it another one of the more prominent reposts.
However, Butker did not release a statement with these words, nor did he appear to publicly release any statements following his speech. A closer look at the quote meme reveals a watermark for “@TheSportsMemery” — a reference to the Facebook page named The Sports Memery. The Facebook page’s