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It turns out your favorite movie is racist. What now?
CNN ^ | 6/16/20 | Jeff Yang

Posted on 07/10/2023 10:27:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Just a day after Ridley’s op-ed ran, HBO temporarily pulled the film from streaming. There’s a deeper conversation to be had about how “Gone With the Wind“‘s racist depictions and white-supremacy-indulgent view of our nation’s past should be addressed today, which University of Chicago professor and Turner Classic Movies co-host Jacqueline Stewart goes into here.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 01just1984earasing; cancelculture; franklymydear; gonewiththewind
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To: CptnObvious
CNN is filled with anti-white racists among the worst of them.

White lefty politics. (i.e. conservatives are racist, we're the good whites)

CNN pimping for Dems.

41 posted on 07/11/2023 8:36:59 AM PDT by period end of story (Unvaxxed for my protection.)
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To: nickcarraway

no spoiler alert? LOL


42 posted on 07/11/2023 9:18:48 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: Yo-Yo

co-written by Richard Pryor


43 posted on 07/11/2023 9:19:17 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: coalminersson
co-written by Richard Pryor

And as I recall, Pryor was originally going to play the part of Sheriff Bart, but his drug habit scared the movie execs.

44 posted on 07/11/2023 9:23:44 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: coalminersson

Did any Civil War veterans see any movies?
Of course, many served as consultants and worked in the film industry. Notably Confederate Veterans who watched “Gone With the Wind” said if we had had that many men we wouldn’t have lost.


45 posted on 07/11/2023 9:29:42 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: DallasBiff

What now????? IGNORE THE WOKENESS.


46 posted on 07/11/2023 12:18:34 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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