[Beowulf9]

If there was a way to invent televised events 2000 years ago we’d probably be confused, horrified, shocked and uncomfortable at a lot of it.

You can’t pretend all times are the same. They are not.

[clintonh8r]

So typical of liberal hand wringing, chin stroking over-analysis.

Here’s an idea: just don’t watch it, or enjoy it like we do on TCM almost every night.

[Deaf Smith]

And then there is the 'Stones with cigarette smoking and drinking of cactus juice.

And Betty with her low cut outfit.

[BenLurkin]

"broadly played"

Quite the euphemism.

[mrsmith]

At least the author wasn’t racist LOL!

[grumpygresh]

It’s just the same attitude as pulling down confederate statutes. Right out of 1984; re-write or delete history.

[allendale]

Bottom line: Political correctness is willful self censorship and self delusion. Art in any form cannot be politically correct. Those that restrict their thinking have no insight.

[Magnatron]

Jeez, and we’re the Nazis...

[central_va]

Yes, today’s modern cinema can be used as a hallmark of virtue and dignity.

[zeestephen]

Re: “What do we say when Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) acts like a happy slave who adores her masters?”

Well, if there is a bright side, Mammy probably had a better standard of living than 95% of the women in Africa.

[Eddie01]

Reminds me of Rush’s Discovery passage at the beginning of 2112.

[PAR35]

So while “Birth of a Nation,” the groundbreaking 1915 film widely regarded as one of the most corrosively racist ever made,

Perhaps so regarded by many who have never watched it, but who only get their opinions from academics and the main stream media.

[karnage]

Overly sensitive pussies bore me.

[digger48]

I was just talking with friends about how the 1932 Tarzan movie would cause the Liberals to have chest-grabbers

Especially the scenes with the violent dwarf tribe, all in blackface

Was also laughing last night at High Sierra. Bogart could bitch slap like nobody’s business

[a fool in paradise]

In Communist Red China, Communist Cambodia, and Communist California the answer is destroy the past.

Orwell was right about the Stalinists’ use of revisionist history.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Apu’s accent in “The Simpsons,”

Commies never complain about Groundkeeper Willie’s Scottish accent and stereotypical attire.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh God.

LOVE old movies, so much more moral.

Will have to start buying up everything before they ban everything and Turner Classic is reduced to playing Jim Carrey as “classic”.

[HotHunt]

It's making for a dull, uninspired, rigid society anymore. Nobody laughs because you might "offend" someone. No one can just let things slide off their back like water off a duck. Everybody walks on pins and needles, for fear of being called out by the PC police.

I say, "F*ck 'em if they can't take a joke."

I'm not politically correct because for one, I'm not a politician and two, I'm seldom correct.

[Yaelle]

But wait. “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” was a documentary, wasn’t it? ;)

[NorthMountain]

SJWs and snowflakes can go bugger themselves.