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Orpheum theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’(Memphis, TN)
wreg.com ^ | August 25, 2017 | David Royer

Posted on 08/26/2017 7:43:10 AM PDT by lowbridge

 “Gone With the Wind” will be gone from The Orpheum’s summer movie series, the theater’s board said Friday.

The Orpheum Theatre Group decided not to include the 1939 movie about a plantation in the Civil War-era South in its 2018 Summer Movie Series after feedback from patrons following the last screening Aug. 11.

“As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,” the theater’s operators said in a statement.

Memphis’ population is about 64 percent African-American.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bluezones; dixie; gonewiththewind; gwtw; hollywood; liberalfascism; moveireview; purge
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To: PAR35

Curses on you, you beat me to it.


61 posted on 08/26/2017 10:48:32 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: bgill

You missed “Huckleberry Finn.”


62 posted on 08/26/2017 10:49:50 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: lowbridge

Yes. That is pretty much what the dems are all about. Getting people hooked on government support, with the aim of getting their support at the voting booth. This way, they stay in power, feed their overgrown egos, and make a lot of money for themselves in after and later after retirement with book deals, speeches, etc, etc.


63 posted on 08/26/2017 10:51:04 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: lowbridge
We're having an by invitation only private showing of the Walt Disney classic, Song of the South


64 posted on 08/26/2017 10:53:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: left that other site
The only one in the movie with any sense and integrity is Mammy!

Yep. McDaniel was a damn fine actress too.

65 posted on 08/26/2017 10:58:12 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: lowbridge

That’s pretty sad. I think the most interesting characters in the movie and book are the blacks. Mammy, Big Sam, and Pork are the most noble, except Melanie, maybe.


66 posted on 08/26/2017 11:01:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: bray
Don’t you know that the South is evil and so is America.

And therefore, since both are evil, they must be removed from the sight of any trembling snowflake. Since it is impossible to move the ground, we must therefore move the snowflakes away from the horrible, hateful, evil dirt that is forever stained with these memories. Canada is nice, and big, and suffers from no such stains. We will even pay for the moving costs, since they likely cannot pay for anything themselves anyway.

67 posted on 08/26/2017 11:01:39 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: lowbridge

Meanwhile, enjoy...

Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacUR7bPnMM

Bugs Bunny: Jungle Jitters 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9vS9clx5U

DOWN IN DIXIE 1930’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNNK-5Me1AE


68 posted on 08/26/2017 11:54:24 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: lowbridge

Show those to the kids/grandkids and the neighbors’ kids.


69 posted on 08/26/2017 11:55:58 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: lowbridge

I’m offended having to live in a world where everyone is perpetually offended. What happened to razzing each other for fun?


70 posted on 08/26/2017 1:40:54 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray

“I’m offended having to live in a world where everyone is perpetually offended. What happened to razzing each other for fun?”

I grew up in the 30s and 40s and ethnic slurs were tossed around regularly.

No one cared,we just tossed one back.

We all grew up and moved on. That’s life.

.


71 posted on 08/26/2017 1:44:02 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lowbridge
If every "insensitive" piece of "art" were not shown, there would be a lot of stuff missing.

72 posted on 08/26/2017 2:41:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL, NPR)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Weren’t we told, ad nauseam, when some truly offensive art was presented (and often paid for with tax money), that the highest purpose of art was to provoke strong reactions, to make people think about uncomfortable subjects, etc etc etc? What happened to that notion? Oh yeah, I forgot... it doesn’t promote an anti-American agenda, thus it deserves no protection.


73 posted on 08/26/2017 3:12:55 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: lowbridge

But we lost?


74 posted on 08/26/2017 5:02:20 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes
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To: Teacher317
I bet the next step will be that "insensitive art" will become "hate art."

If looks as if "Gone with the Wind" is getting the treatment. It is being called racist, which will morph into "privileged white people hating black people." Then they will storm the theaters and not let anyone in. They they will beat them up to the applause of the fake media since violence to stop "hate" is OK.

Love through violence.

75 posted on 08/26/2017 7:54:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL, NPR)
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To: lowbridge

Downtown Memphis, if you can’t carry your gun, don’t go.


76 posted on 08/27/2017 4:36:29 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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