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!
“Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses.”
Shouldn’t that be FEWER horses?
It’s a love story/human drama story, not a history lesson.
Geez...
The last couple of generations are now reaping the rewards of an affirmative action education. Ignoramuses. Republican President Lincoln abolished slavery and freed the slaves the before the end of the Civil War. There is no slavery today except in the minds of the government plantation voters, Repeat, no slavery, honest Abe.
There’s more to the article than the excerpt.
And I ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.
The thing I have found increasingly interesting through the years as I’ve travelled around is all the cities, towns, mills, bridges, etc., etc., even in the deep south, that include the the word “Union”* in their name. This indicates to me that the sentiments of rebellion, while a majority of some level, were far from unanimous.
*Another name that pops up in interesting places is “Lincoln”.
Makes me wonder what he thinks of Michael Shara’s “The Killer Angels” and the movie “Gettysburg”.
The author said ‘I hate’ seven times. Does he realize this is the same emotion that the gunman used?
Actually, GWTW is almost entirely factual - one of the most factually accurate novels ever written about the civil war. It inspired an entire generation of historians (the Shelby Foote generation). It didn’t win the Pulitzer because of the romance between Rhett and Scarlett (although that certainly is one of the main reasons it remains a bestseller) but because of it’s amazing representation of the thoughts, actions and way of life of North Georgians at the time and the presentation of the evolution of Atlanta from a small town into a major metropolis. Scarlett, of course, is a symbol of Atlanta and the new south. Rhett, certainly, is the voice of distain towards the south - viciously so at times.
The wooden-headed Mr. price.
Precious Johnny.
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Price!
The civil war didn't become about slavery until midway through when Lincoln figured it for a PR gimmick.
Do you think all those poor Southern boys were giving their lives so that the few rich Southerners could own slaves?!?!
I don't think so.
I always thought it was about the northern rich 1% controlling all the commerce and keeping the most of the profits? Has any thing really changed ,other than today’s slaves getting a salary, and giving a large % to the Gov’t to spend on the slave overseers they call Congressmen? (Who are then given secret bonuses for programs that support the 1%)
The biggest mistake this country ever made was importing Africans.
I have said the same thing numerous times on this forum...the first mistake was importing Stone Age savages, then this was compounded by denying them access to assimilation...
What could ever go wrong under that scenario...?
Geesh, why the hate?
What a hater...what a whining, intolerant hater.
Have all these people wet their pants? Cause they all seem to have some kind of pi$$ on.
The correct rendering would be “with fewer horses”.
That was the fist thing I noticed about this silly article...
Yes exactly!
And this incident is just about a nutjob who has successfully gotten into all kinds of progressive heads, and caused them to lose what’s left of their critical thinking skills. The article has no historical truth to it whatsoever.
Jeez, Price! Lunatic much?
OK, OK, we’ve got it... you’re a hater.
“Republican President Lincoln abolished slavery and freed the slaves the before the end of the Civil War.”
No, he didn’t. Read history. Read Lincoln’s document.
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