Posted on 12/28/2018 7:54:50 PM PST by Drew68
Edited on 12/29/2018 12:16:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
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“DEMOCRATS ARE LIKE ZOMBIES”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs
Plantation owners were outnumbered by their slaves, sometimes by ratios of hundreds to one. It made sense to treat slaves fairly so as to minimize resentment which could flare into rebellion. I think most slave owners made an effort to create good feeling among their slaves.
But at least it's only the awards voters who are fine with Polanski since that 2003 Oscar and not the actors themselves except for Eva Green, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslett, John C. Reilly, Ewan McGregor, Timothy Hutton, Pierce Brosnan, Christoph Waltz, Ben Kingsley, Jim Belusi, and Helena Bonham Carter who have all made movies with Polanski during that time.
Slavery was an abomination but the stereotype of Southern slave owner as a brutish, masochistic, cruel monster who crippled and blinded slaves for punishment is largely a Hollywood creation, based mostly on Alex Haley's Roots, a book that we now know is fiction.
The reality is a lot more complicated. Slaves were expensive. They needed to be healthy. They were fed, clothed, housed, and given health care. They were given time off to rest and recuperate. To celebrate holidays. While cruel slavemasters certainly existed, cruelty and fear often did not produce the quality of labor that rest, health, and contentment did. Many plantation owners understood this.
Never. Disney will never release a full version of SotS for American home viewing.
It has been, however, released in full in other countries. In Japan, it is now public domain.
It would be stupid to abuse various slaves.
Why do people think this, when neither do owners treat their animals that way? How many farmers beat their milk cows and pigs? Back then, more of the animals also actually worked, not just produce, and how good would they have been treated poorly?
Its the same point. One cant make money with abuse. Not real abuse, anyway.
My husband and I bought that movie several years ago.
It’s out there.
Been a long time since I heard the phrase white man’s burden. Might be some truth to that old notion.
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