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Yes, You're a Racist -- And a Traitor
The Huffington Post ^ | June 23, 2015 | John E. Price

Posted on 06/23/2015 11:56:19 AM PDT by EveningStar

Edited on 06/24/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

... I hate Gone With the Wind. I hate everything about it. I hate its portrayal of the Civil War. I hate its portrayal of Southern aristocrats. I hate its popularity. I hate that it's become an iconic movie. I hate that it was ever made in the first place.

Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses. The movie, and its position among the American cinematic pantheon, has done more to further the ahistoric Lost Cause bull**** than any other single production. Because that's the fundamental problem with the Lost Cause narrative: it's not true.

Let's go one-by-one through some typical Lost Cause-tinged revisionist talking points:

The Civil War was about economics, not slavery!

The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; confederateflag; deathbyfederaltroops; gonewiththewind; gwtw; lostcause; racism; readtheentirearticle; statesrights
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1 posted on 06/23/2015 11:56:19 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Simple thinking from a simpleton...quelle surprise!


2 posted on 06/23/2015 11:58:05 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: EveningStar

Now you’ve done it. Civil War do over begin!


3 posted on 06/23/2015 11:58:29 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (7 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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To: EveningStar

Still one of my favorite movies.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 11:59:30 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: EveningStar
So what about the Northern slave states of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Missouri?

If it was about slavery, how come they weren't invaded and in ruins?

Why was their slavery acceptable, but those other states not?

5 posted on 06/23/2015 11:59:43 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: EveningStar
This pickle puffer just sounds like a hater.
6 posted on 06/23/2015 12:00:15 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: EveningStar; All

Frankly, John..I don’t give a damn what you think..


7 posted on 06/23/2015 12:00:30 PM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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To: EveningStar

Why don’t you just grow up and become an adult? Quit acting like a spoiled brat.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 12:01:03 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: EveningStar

More liberals proving their ignorance.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 12:02:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: EveningStar

Frankly, I don’t give a damn.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 12:02:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: EveningStar

Regurgitating everything the learned in black studies.


11 posted on 06/23/2015 12:02:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous Islamists.)
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

Gone With the Wind and Birth of a Nation ping


12 posted on 06/23/2015 12:03:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Hunh. I wonder what name John E Price uses when he posts here. He’s got plenty of twins that troll any thread about the South.


13 posted on 06/23/2015 12:07:10 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: EveningStar

Democrats were slavers. And racists. And traitors.

And continue to be obsessed by race right up to the present day. And continue to side with our enemies at every opportunity.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 12:08:58 PM PDT by marron
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To: EveningStar

Check me if I’m wrong but slavery officially ended sometime around 1866.

Unless you count the slavery of bondage to the welfare state, where on the democrat plantation, all you are expected to do is vote democrat in every election.

Many times.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 12:09:12 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: EveningStar

Simpleton article, for the stupid.

The entire history of what led up to the war was far more than slavery. FR has thread after thread discussing the topic, so I won’t repost here, but the war was far from about slavery.


16 posted on 06/23/2015 12:09:43 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: EveningStar

Hm. “Birth Of A Nation” is one my all-time favorite movies, at least in the top 5.


17 posted on 06/23/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: EveningStar

Got it wrong in the first three sentences. GWTW is about farmers in Northern Georgia not southern aristocrats with, maybe, the exception of Scarlett’s mother and, perhaps, Ashley’s family. Most of the characters are fairly nouveau - especially Scarlett. Guess they’ll be a movement to take away Mitchell’s Pulitzer.


18 posted on 06/23/2015 12:10:03 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: kaehurowing
You beat me to it! Except I would have said...

Frankly, you little Homo, I don't give a damn!
19 posted on 06/23/2015 12:10:31 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: EveningStar

Birth Of A Nation is a better movie. Why are leftists such haters? Their founder, Woodrow Wilson, was a big-time racist. LBJ, who started the modern big brother government movement, was a big fan of the N-word.


20 posted on 06/23/2015 12:11:47 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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