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HBO Removes ‘Gone With the Wind’, Erasing First Black Woman to Win an Oscar; Protest Movement Sparks Virtue-Signaling Show-Cancellations Worldwide
Summit News ^ | 06/10/2020 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 06/10/2020 7:23:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In addition to HBO Max's cancellation of "Gone With The Wind," the outrage mob has managed to get shows worldwide cancelled because... racism...

Netflix and the BBC pulled reruns of sketch comedy show “Little Britain” over its repeated use of blackface.

Paramount Network canceled the long-running police reality show "Cops".

Additionally, four cast members from Bravo's reality show, “The Vanderpump Rules,” have been fired, CNN reported.

Hartley Sawyer, who played the Elongated Man on CW's superhero show “The Flash,” was fired for tweets the actor later acknowledged were “hurtful and unacceptable,” according to the BBC.

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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

HBO has caved to the demands of the mob and removed ‘Gone With the Wind’ from its platform, in the process erasing the first black female Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel.

Another massive victory for the “anti-racists”.

“HBO Max said the 1939 film was “a product of its time” and depicted “ethnic and racial prejudices” that “were wrong then and are wrong today,” reports BBC News.

The controversy centers around a depiction of slave characters who are content to stay with their owners after slavery is abolished (something that did happen and is not historically inaccurate).

The film’s removal takes on an added layer of ludicrousness when you consider that in deleting the movie, HBO has also erased the first black female Oscar winner from history.

These people are certifiably nuts. The first Black woman to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel for Gone With The Wind. Now her work is removed from view in the name of being anti racist? https://t.co/HjQTQT1eJK — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 10, 2020

These people are certifiably nuts. The first Black woman to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel for Gone With The Wind. Now her work is removed from view in the name of being anti racist?” tweeted Robby Starbuck.

HBO Max said it was “irresponsible” to broadcast Gone With the Wind without “an explanation and a denouncement” of its “racist depictions” and that the film would likely return to the platform at a later date with a “discussion of its historical context”.

Audible has yet to comment on whether it will commence digital book burnings by removing ‘controversial’ titles, but don’t be surprised to see titles start disappearing soon.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cancellation; gonewiththewind; hbo; racism; searchandfind
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To: SeekAndFind

Here are screenshots of the Tweets from Hartley Sawyer (who I never heard of before today) https://screenrant.com/flash-hartley-sawyer-tweets-racist-explained/

They were all apparently jokes. Someone (?) is looking at past postings by white people on social media to determine who to next destroy,


21 posted on 06/10/2020 7:49:01 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: silverleaf

Networks censored ‘Airplane’ a long time ago. Soon it will become a 5 minute movie.


22 posted on 06/10/2020 7:49:21 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rated #15 of all time by Hollywood itself

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/100-best-films-ever-hollywood-favorites-818512

Director: Victor Fleming

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh

Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $1,592,000,000

Famous quote: “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” — Scarlett

It’s still the longest film to win best picture (nearly four hours) and the first to have an African-American cast member win an Oscar (Hattie McDaniel). Ironically, its only surviving star is Olivia de Havilland, 97, whose character was the main one to die.


23 posted on 06/10/2020 7:51:12 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Aunt Jemima still around on pancake syrup bottles?


24 posted on 06/10/2020 7:52:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just went online and cancelled our HBO subscription. I wasn’t a fan anyway.


25 posted on 06/10/2020 7:57:19 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Next up, 48 hours. Been watching the marathon. It greatly belies the history revision that whites are heading into minority neighbors and killing blacks and latins at random.
What it does show is wanton killing for petty grievances, sex, drugs, or gang activities.


26 posted on 06/10/2020 8:12:37 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Vision

Well the end result will be slavery never happened.
Be careful what you wish for.


27 posted on 06/10/2020 8:13:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey, I demand they stop running the Godfather as it shows Italians in a bad light. Along with Goodfellows albeit their is one Irish crook involved I guess as a token.


28 posted on 06/10/2020 8:15:30 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fried chicken, waffles and syrup will all be banned.


29 posted on 06/10/2020 8:16:12 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Jeff Chandler

I’d better download a copy Blazing Saddles while it’s still allowed.

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And one of the best comedy movies ever. Blazing Saddles.


30 posted on 06/10/2020 8:20:52 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Just collateral damage, what’s next? Driving Miss Daisy.

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Actually, it’s ‘The Help”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3854099/posts


31 posted on 06/10/2020 8:22:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gone with the Wind is the number one seller on Amazon since HBO went nutz.


32 posted on 06/10/2020 8:26:28 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t have cable, not interested in watching over the air TV either. Have hundreds of movies and sitcoms on DVD and Blu Ray, including Gone With the Wind.

I’ll watch what I please without the “threat” of anyone else telling me what I can and can’t watch.


33 posted on 06/10/2020 8:31:17 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I have my DVD set of Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons.

It is just a matter of time before they are banned...


34 posted on 06/10/2020 8:32:03 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Don Corleone

The “Bojangles of Harlem” tribute in “Swing Time.” One of Fred’s best dance scenes.


35 posted on 06/10/2020 8:32:18 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: cgbg

In Living Color, too.


36 posted on 06/10/2020 8:32:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mouton

And Vikings, showing my Scandanavian forebears as nothing by murderous rapists and looters.


37 posted on 06/10/2020 8:34:30 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Responsibility2nd

And it is very much anti-slavery and racism.


38 posted on 06/10/2020 8:36:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Ralph Northam is still Governor of VA.


39 posted on 06/10/2020 8:37:15 AM PDT by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: meowmeow

GWTW?


40 posted on 06/10/2020 8:38:37 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I did not kill George Floyd.)
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