'Gone With the Wind' screenings pulled from Memphis theater for racially 'insensitive' content

foxnews.com ^ | 8/28/17 | Sasha Savitsky

[x]

Tourism thrives on unsavory stuff. If you don't have a beach or snow, natural wonders or bright lights, what you end up selling is war and exploitation of one sort or another. Drop that and what are you left with?

Maybe you can successfully flip the narrative. People going to Salem Mass, identify more with the accused witches than with the Puritans. But take down the monuments and stop showing the movie and what's left?

[victim soul]

Cowardly, despicable, self-serving politically correct weasels!

Show some respect for the author and
your audiences after 34 years of showing!

SHOW US THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OrangeHoof]

Still love that line from “Mad Men” about the Liston-Clay fight:

“If I want to watch two n———s fight, I can just toss a dollar bill out my back window.”

How that got past the censors...then again, I was watching the DVD version.

[Dalberg-Acton]

They should screen W. D. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation.

[Magnum44]

SHOW US THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously. And the featurette before the movie should be an episode of "Our Gang/Little Rascals".

[Magnum44]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The president of the Orpheum Theatre said the decision to remove the 1939 film was not directly related to the recent...”

Oh, BS! And who cares? We’ll watch it at home and put your dumb @ss OUT OF BUSINESS!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

REVERSE Sexism! Scarlet had suitors by the DOZENS. Southern Ladies (with no brothers) owned a good chunk of the Plantations thanks to Daddy, and all of the (you know what)...so who was 'oppressed' back them? *SMIRK*

[Mears]

Astonishing.

I didn’t realize that people were forced at gunpoint to so see “Gone With the Wind”./s

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

You KNOW they're only banning this film because the O'Hara Family was...wait for it...wait for it...IRISH!

*SMIRK*

[libertylover]

If you have to ask that question then why are you on this forum?

Uh, perhaps iowahawk is also a lover of liberty.

[BwanaNdege]

The president of the Orpheum Theatre is a coward.

Or possibly a pragmatist.

How many times have the police in any city done anything to stop Antifa/BLM rioting & destruction of private property?

Over the past few weeks, ANY excuse to riot and burn is a 'good' excuse to these vermin.

[itsahoot]

Uh, perhaps iowahawk is also a lover of liberty.

Then he should resent a theater being too frightened to show a film.

[itsahoot]

I have something from VHS that is NTSC 250 quality.

[onedoug]

Scarlet’s mother was the real looker.

And I still say the theatre owner is a coward.

[Jewbacca]

I demand “The Ten Commandments” also not be shown as it glorifies the enslavement of my people by North Africans.

(yes, sarcasm)

[artichokegrower]

Don’t be showing Pepe Le Pew cartoons at that theater. Very insensitive to French people. Not even going to mention Speedy Gonzalez and Mexican outrage.