Posted on 06/09/2020 11:20:25 PM PDT by knighthawk
HBO Max pulled the Oscar-winning Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind" from its library amid heightened racial tensions following the death of George Floyd.
ScreenRant and The Wall Street Journal were the first to report that the newly-launched streaming service yanked the 1939 film, which takes place at an Atlanta plantation. Critics in the modern era have criticized "Gone With the Wind" for its depiction of black people.
The film won eight Oscars including Best Picture and made history when Hattie McDaniel became the first black American to win an Oscar for her performance.
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They did that because someone might watch it and realize that
civil war isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
ANTIFA, are ya listening?
Yeah Par!!
Well amazon is still renting and selling it. We’ll see how long that lasts.
This is getting completely out of control and they are gonna overplay their hand.
A lot of gangster movies make Italians look terrible.
It bothers ONE person in my family of Italian descent
I enjoy them. Very much
I’m not gonna b.tch about nonsense that has no effect on my life.
Come on! That is one of the best movies ever made!
“Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a damn!”
Rhett Butler, don’t know his real name, was a real treasure. As was Vivian Leigh...are those those the correct names?
Well I love the Sopranos and the Godfather series and Goodfellas. Maybe it’s because I’m from Chicago but I love those types of movies.
Clark Gable? Sic transit gloria mundi.
One day in the near future ,their”classics” will be censored...Think about all the nice pro-abort crap on TV and movies the last 30 years.....
The erasure of American history (even historical fiction) continues at breakneck pace
This warrants Senate hearings.
Dumb. First Black actress to win an Oscar and they pull the film.
Just dumb.
I thought the Frank Nitti character (”The Untouchables”) was pretty cool. Nasty, evil and cold-blooded, but pretty cool, with that wicked grin. De Niro was pretty good in it, too.
Then there was the movie “Next of Kin”, in which a hillbilly clan from Kentucky goes to war with a Chicago mob family. They ended up having a truce after a gun battle in a cemetery. Pretty cool.
LOL! We've been saying this about liberals since Nixon was president!
They've been advancing two steps forward, one step back ever since.
And now here we are.
They did this the day before Hattie McDaniel’s birthday.
But THAT’S not racist.
Nope.
Can’t believe this film was produced in 1939
One of the most beautiful films.
Watch it every year just like “Wizard of Oz” “ Ben Hur” “The Ten Commandments” “Frosty the Snowman” “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”
>> they are gonna overplay their hand.
For me, the defining breaking point was the Left’s virtual molestation of every child via the transgender fallacy that penetrated the children’s bathrooms. And that happened years ago.
Unlike the Left, our problem is that we have too much to lose fighting back as individuals. We have families. We have responsibilities. And we’re good people that have just expectations of each other.
Given the widespread acceptance of Marxism by every major corporation, we should all be concerned despite our individual appearance on the great American palette.
Welcome to “1984”, “Farenheit 461”, the “Third Reich” and any communist country in the world.
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