Simply unacceptable and a display of cowardice. Did the movie not offend black residents any of the other years during its annual summer showing? Or, could it be that it's now trending to destroy anything made in the early 20th century involving slavery? The movie isn't even really about slavery, it was just alongside it. I think the real answer is that peoples parents and grandparents fought against racism on a grand scale in the most of the 1900s, and now their lives are so fucking good that they only have ghosts to take their angst out on.
I actually turned on Gone With the Wind the other day because it popped up on Amazon Video. I got through like 45 minutes before falling asleep though, lol.
Relating to the discussion here, it's gotten to a point where I would rather not comment one way or the other on any of these issues, and that's a pretty sad situation. Hooray free speech.
The Civil War wasn't about slavery either. It was a side issue who's continued usage in the South was necessitated by the economic oppression of Southern growers by Northern industrialists.
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This erasing history and removing monuments is very disturbingly similar to what happened in places like Cambodia, Iran, and Egypt when oppressive regimes tried to erase anything that preceded them.
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Yep, if I remember correctly from history class, the emancipation only came when Lincoln's team realized it was a good way to cripple their opponent's economy/production. It definitely had nothing to do with giving a fk about black people.
Update: And yes, totally agree that you can change history. Examples have already been brought up. Iran in particular is striking -- was the hub of science and math and then one Muslim cleric convinces people that numbers are the devil's work and it recedes for 100s of years into what it is now.
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The cultural marxist book burning alt left scumbags will not stop until they rewrite all history
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
Can we just boycott the movie, because it is one of the most overrated movies of all time? If people don't want to watch it, fine, don't watch it. If the theater doesn't want to show it, fine, they can show something else.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
It was about slavery. Do we need to post quotes from prominent Confederates to remind you?
Confederate monuments were erected by racists to oppress Black America during the Jim Crow era. They served no different purpose then. They served no different purpose now.
And Gone with the Wind?
"But the extent to which the characters don’t think about race over 1,024 pages or three hours and fifty-eight minutes is actually a remarkable and useful thing to witness. Their blindness is a testament to the persistence with which Confederate apologists would deny that their beliefs have anything to do without race — and to the idea that you don’t have to walk around fulminating about the inferiority of African-Americans to participate in keeping them in bondage."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4f2606574cd9
Then the theater shouldn't have caved to societal pressure. The process worked out exactly as it is supposed to. If you don't like the theater's decision, then you also get to boycott them, and use your societal pressure to get them to do what you want them to do.
Since you say there is still a demand, open up your own theater, and show the movie.