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Yes, You're a Racist -- And a Traitor
The Huffington Post ^ | June 23, 2015 | John E. Price

Posted on 06/23/2015 11:56:19 AM PDT by EveningStar

Edited on 06/24/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

... I hate Gone With the Wind. I hate everything about it. I hate its portrayal of the Civil War. I hate its portrayal of Southern aristocrats. I hate its popularity. I hate that it's become an iconic movie. I hate that it was ever made in the first place.

Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses. The movie, and its position among the American cinematic pantheon, has done more to further the ahistoric Lost Cause bull**** than any other single production. Because that's the fundamental problem with the Lost Cause narrative: it's not true.

Let's go one-by-one through some typical Lost Cause-tinged revisionist talking points:

The Civil War was about economics, not slavery!

The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; confederateflag; deathbyfederaltroops; gonewiththewind; gwtw; lostcause; racism; readtheentirearticle; statesrights
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To: EveningStar

“Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses.”

Shouldn’t that be FEWER horses?


41 posted on 06/23/2015 12:41:54 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: EveningStar

It’s a love story/human drama story, not a history lesson.

Geez...


42 posted on 06/23/2015 12:44:24 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: EveningStar
Gone With the Wind was a romantic novel set in the Civil War era. It is entertainment, It is not meant to be factual from a historical view point and should not be considered as such.

The last couple of generations are now reaping the rewards of an affirmative action education. Ignoramuses. Republican President Lincoln abolished slavery and freed the slaves the before the end of the Civil War. There is no slavery today except in the minds of the government plantation voters, Repeat, no slavery, honest Abe.

43 posted on 06/23/2015 12:45:31 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

There’s more to the article than the excerpt.


44 posted on 06/23/2015 12:46:51 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Texicanus

And I ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.


45 posted on 06/23/2015 12:49:30 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The thing I have found increasingly interesting through the years as I’ve travelled around is all the cities, towns, mills, bridges, etc., etc., even in the deep south, that include the the word “Union”* in their name. This indicates to me that the sentiments of rebellion, while a majority of some level, were far from unanimous.
*Another name that pops up in interesting places is “Lincoln”.


46 posted on 06/23/2015 12:52:40 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: EveningStar

Makes me wonder what he thinks of Michael Shara’s “The Killer Angels” and the movie “Gettysburg”.


47 posted on 06/23/2015 12:52:54 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: EveningStar

The author said ‘I hate’ seven times. Does he realize this is the same emotion that the gunman used?


48 posted on 06/23/2015 12:54:09 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: EveningStar
Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses.

The correct rendering would be "with fewer horses".

The author needs an editor, and the Huffington Post doesn't have enough good ones.
49 posted on 06/23/2015 12:55:31 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Texicanus

Actually, GWTW is almost entirely factual - one of the most factually accurate novels ever written about the civil war. It inspired an entire generation of historians (the Shelby Foote generation). It didn’t win the Pulitzer because of the romance between Rhett and Scarlett (although that certainly is one of the main reasons it remains a bestseller) but because of it’s amazing representation of the thoughts, actions and way of life of North Georgians at the time and the presentation of the evolution of Atlanta from a small town into a major metropolis. Scarlett, of course, is a symbol of Atlanta and the new south. Rhett, certainly, is the voice of distain towards the south - viciously so at times.


50 posted on 06/23/2015 12:56:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: EveningStar
Angry at the culture that permits such blatant hatred.

So, the culture should imprison or execute or disenfranchise those who show that flag, for whatever reason?
51 posted on 06/23/2015 1:04:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: EveningStar
Johnny, you're a dimwit.

The wooden-headed Mr. price.
Precious Johnny.
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Price!

The civil war didn't become about slavery until midway through when Lincoln figured it for a PR gimmick.

Do you think all those poor Southern boys were giving their lives so that the few rich Southerners could own slaves?!?!

I don't think so.

52 posted on 06/23/2015 1:13:11 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: EveningStar

I always thought it was about the northern rich 1% controlling all the commerce and keeping the most of the profits? Has any thing really changed ,other than today’s slaves getting a salary, and giving a large % to the Gov’t to spend on the slave overseers they call Congressmen? (Who are then given secret bonuses for programs that support the 1%)


53 posted on 06/23/2015 1:14:59 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: bk1000

The biggest mistake this country ever made was importing Africans.

I have said the same thing numerous times on this forum...the first mistake was importing Stone Age savages, then this was compounded by denying them access to assimilation...

What could ever go wrong under that scenario...?


54 posted on 06/23/2015 1:29:57 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: EveningStar

Geesh, why the hate?
What a hater...what a whining, intolerant hater.
Have all these people wet their pants? Cause they all seem to have some kind of pi$$ on.


55 posted on 06/23/2015 1:34:18 PM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The correct rendering would be “with fewer horses”.

That was the fist thing I noticed about this silly article...


56 posted on 06/23/2015 1:36:39 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: CodeToad

Yes exactly!

And this incident is just about a nutjob who has successfully gotten into all kinds of progressive heads, and caused them to lose what’s left of their critical thinking skills. The article has no historical truth to it whatsoever.


57 posted on 06/23/2015 1:44:50 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: EveningStar

Jeez, Price! Lunatic much?


58 posted on 06/23/2015 1:45:03 PM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: EveningStar

OK, OK, we’ve got it... you’re a hater.


59 posted on 06/23/2015 1:45:15 PM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Texicanus

“Republican President Lincoln abolished slavery and freed the slaves the before the end of the Civil War.”

No, he didn’t. Read history. Read Lincoln’s document.


60 posted on 06/23/2015 1:48:30 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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