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Old favorites, outdated attitudes: Can entertainment expire? (old movies "problematic" for today)
AP News ^ | 12/28/2018

Posted on 12/28/2018 7:54:50 PM PST by Drew68

Edited on 12/29/2018 12:16:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; agitprop; apbias; bookburners; bookburning; censorship; change; communistrevolution; culturalsewer; feminazism; firstamendment; metoo; rapingmychildhood; revisionisthistory; vanishingamerica
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To: Drew68
When is the last time "Song of the South" been on TV??

FMCDH(BITS)

81 posted on 12/29/2018 2:02:36 AM PST by nothingnew
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To: a fool in paradise

The elites are leftists and leftists command the forces of death. The marginalization and polarization is happening now.

“THE EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE ARE

CLASSIFICATION,

SYMBOLIZATION,

DEHUMANIZATION,

ORGANIZATION,

POLARIZATION,

PREPARATION,

EXTERMINATION,

AND DENIAL.”

Stages of Genocide. Seems we are entering into the polarization phase.

These stages use Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals to further the agenda.


82 posted on 12/29/2018 2:41:35 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Drew68

I rewatched die hard over Xmas and was pleased to see Bruce Willis smoking in the airport.


83 posted on 12/29/2018 4:00:51 AM PST by fruser1
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To: grumpygresh
It’s just the same attitude as pulling down confederate statutes. Right out of 1984; re-write or delete history.

Exactly. This is all part of a very bad trend that doesn’t bode well for the future.

84 posted on 12/29/2018 4:33:47 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Reddy

That’s what she said.


85 posted on 12/29/2018 4:52:06 AM PST by pdunkin
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To: digger48

I never miss “Best Days of Our Lives” when TCM runs this old jewel.


86 posted on 12/29/2018 4:56:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: StAnDeliver
but for America’s Sweetheart to keep poking at Hughes corpus of work in the 10 years after his death says more about her than Ted could possibly ever get his tiny mind around...

She's really troubled by it, and the fact that these movies remain popular.

Here's the article Molly Ringwald wrote for New Yorker. It's worth the read.

What About “The Breakfast Club”? Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

87 posted on 12/29/2018 5:02:45 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68
Funny, I was just remembering some of the lines between Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in "48 Hours", where they both used all kinds of racial epithets. IMO the movie itself was pretty well done, but I'm sure it couldn't be shown now without major edits, if it was shown at all.

To your point about the Khmer Rouge, that is exactly the plan liberals have for us, if they ever truly get power and get us disarmed ("good luck" with that attempt, since so many of us know the history of repressive regimes).

88 posted on 12/29/2018 5:04:11 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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To: Yaelle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeDkGnyDv9o


89 posted on 12/29/2018 5:12:04 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: LostInBayport

My DVD collection is ME-TV on steroids.


90 posted on 12/29/2018 5:17:42 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: Chickensoup

It’s much “easier” to go “forward” when all memories of the past are erradicated.

Those archive materials.
Those works by dead white males.
Those who remember details.


91 posted on 12/29/2018 5:24:34 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Yaelle

I think that that might be banned because an Authority figure( Ray Walston) literally eats Sean Penn’s lunch. We can’t have anyone out smarting the announced one.


92 posted on 12/29/2018 5:32:40 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Hardastarboard

“Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll” [Official Documentary Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipq4FefX5Ps

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_think_ive_forgotten_cambodias_lost_rock_and_roll_2014
TOMATOMETER
100%
All Critics
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 19

Rotten: 0
AUDIENCE SCORE
84%
liked it
Average Rating: 4.2/5
User Ratings: 173

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/dont-think-ive-forgotten-cambodias-lost-rock-and-roll/Content?oid=4269276

the KR insurgency gained power and eventually took over. No more rock ‘n’ roll, no more anything. By some estimates as many as three million Cambodians were killed by their own countrymen, a quarter of the country’s population.

Cities were emptied out, “bourgeois” citizens were eliminated (including teachers, writers, or anyone who so much as wore glasses), and the entire country was forced into farm labor in an effort to stamp out “corrupt” influences. Pop records were burned; the KR instead elevated rural folk songs. Former popsters who managed to live through the terror still have a shocked expression on their faces today. As they tell their stories, the film’s music and montage combine for a strong emotional effect, reflecting the guilty sadness of those who lived.


93 posted on 12/29/2018 5:34:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: The Antiyuppie

the 1968 radicals in America never stopped.

They pushed this crap in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and still in the 2010s.

There was push back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and started waning in the 2000s.

Academia, institutions of history (art, science, and history), and media are overrun by this group think.

Kaywin Feldman Becomes the First Woman to Direct the National Gallery of Art (social justice in DC)artnet ^ | December 11, 2018 | Eileen Kinsell
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3714064/posts

Feldman will have to contend with the politics of leading an institution in DC that is largely federally funded. In an essay for Apollo magazine published earlier this year, she wrote: “Art museums are intensely political organizations—political with a small ‘p’. Art is political because it is an expression of lived human experience; identity, love, sex, religion, death, home, happiness, and trauma have always been subjects for artists. A concerned trustee at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where I am the director, recently asked me if we would ever be the focus of protest. I assured him that we would, and urged him to walk around the galleries if he wanted to find offense. We have it all on our walls: imperialism, colonialism, war, oppression, discrimination, slavery, misogyny, rape, and more.”

In a statement provided by the NGA, Feldman said the museum is “arguably America’s greatest treasure. To be chosen to lead it into its next decades is a profound honor. As I prepare to take on the responsibility for this magnificent institution, I want to express my gratitude to the trustees for putting their faith in me, and to Rusty Powell for the example of his years of enlightened stewardship. I am eager to work with the talented team at the Gallery in taking the institution to even greater heights.”


94 posted on 12/29/2018 5:39:42 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: thecodont

>>... especially when attending church

What is this “church” you speak of?

Red Nightmare (Jack Webb/1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHv-83x58B8


95 posted on 12/29/2018 5:43:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d love to be a college professor who could lock up about 150 of todays SJWs and make them watch Blazing Saddles.

“We need a cleanup in room 307 due to exploding heads.”


96 posted on 12/29/2018 5:49:59 AM PST by M1078 (US ARMY - Overlanding since 1775)
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To: M1078

and watch “Airplane” the movie


97 posted on 12/29/2018 5:51:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: jjotto
Probably the majority of former slaves stayed with their masters or returned to them after checking out alternatives. Many became sharecroppers. There are historical records that don’t fit today’s narratives.

What else were former slaves going to do? Tending crops was all they knew how to do. Later generations of blacks would head north to work in the factories, but in the years immediately after the Civil War, white people would not tolerate the competition.

Blacks were lynched in NYC in the 1863 Draft Riots

98 posted on 12/29/2018 5:53:27 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I wonder if TCM can obtain and air a copy of "Song of the South"?


99 posted on 12/29/2018 5:58:34 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: PapaBear3625

If you hated your former master and his family so much then why would so many freedmen take the last name of their former owner?


100 posted on 12/29/2018 5:58:42 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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