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posted by martyb on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
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HBO Max Temporarily Removes ‘Gone With the Wind’ From Library

An HBO Max spokesperson says “Gone With the Wind” will eventually return to the platform with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of its racist depictions.

On Tuesday, HBO Max removed the 1939 film from its library in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd.

[...] Upon its release, “Gone With the Wind” broke theater attendance records and was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point. It still holds the record when adjusted for inflation. However, despite being considered one of the greatest films of all time, some film commentators have since criticized its depiction of slavery and Black people.


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:49PM (29 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:49PM (#1006446) Journal

    China? I mean, they're doing a job on Apple

    Well, this is why we need bittorrent, can't let people lock this stuff up

    *rhetorical question. I read the story

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:59PM (28 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:59PM (#1006454)

    It's the boring bland grey world that SJW want.
    Personally I'm fucking sick of hearing about racial inequality and all the bullshit about white privilege.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:15PM (12 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:15PM (#1006469)

      Personally I'm fucking sick of hearing about racial inequality

      Then fight to end it. Then you won't have to hear about it any more.

      Or are you advocating for the repeal of the First Amendment? How authoritarian of you!

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:31PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:31PM (#1006485)

        Then fight to end it.

        No, man, don't be such a savage!

        You gotta fuck to end it! Fuck the white man's women, have the white man's babies. Mix it up real good, and they won't be able to tell anybody apart.

        Besides, you have to admit, Black is Beautiful!

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:19PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:19PM (#1006533)

          I know you're saying that ironically to rile folks up, *Fusty*.

          But I will be glad of the day when everyone is a nice copper-brown. It will eliminate *this particular type* of bigotry.

          Sadly, there will always be bigotry. Which is sad.

          You know what, I'm going to go out and fuck a black girl. Then an asian one. Then a latina. Hopefully we can make some pretty brown babies!

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @11:16PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @11:16PM (#1006650)

            Same color will emininate bigotry? HAHA, is that why Africa countries are so peaceful, because everyone is the same color?
            You think each african country would be celebrating once the big bad colonial whites left each country, but instead they turned on each other and slaughtered each other by the hundreds of thousands.
            Capetown in South Africa became a murderous shithole after apartheid ended. I think it's still the murder capital of the world.
            Rwanda? 1Million tutsies were killed in three months. 1MILLION! 1 FUCKING MILLIONS BLACKS killed by other BLACKS. That doesn't jar you? Then consider this then: it took WWII Germany six years to exterminate 6 million jews. Rwanda would have beaten Hitler's death camps in 1.5 years. So much people of the same skin color getting along.
            Congo.
            Sudan.
            Ugunda (Idi Admin-remember him?)
            Nigeria.
            ..and the list goes on.

            PS: don't forget the friendly blacks in the US. You know, the ones that kill each other at a rate 20x higher than whites kill whites. Mostly in inner-city areas, where very few whites exist or they are in the vast minority-but you'll never hear that on CNN or MSNBC.
            Ya, real peaceful friendly people.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @05:06PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @05:06PM (#1006954)

              India where browns have been mass killing browns for centuries

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:48PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:48PM (#1007462)

              All done with white finance

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @01:26PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @01:26PM (#1006849)

            What happens if none of them will fuck you because of your skin color?

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Friday June 12 2020, @08:21AM (5 children)

        by Nuke (3162) on Friday June 12 2020, @08:21AM (#1006795)

        Personally I'm fucking sick of hearing about racial inequality

        Then fight to end it. Then you won't have to hear about it any more.

        The racial inequality that I see is against white people. Blacks are now mollycoddled. When they earn, less money for example, it is because of their own choices and negative attitudes, including as shown in these riots. Contrast that with how Asians progress. Blacks certainly don't get less sex.

        • (Score: 4, Touché) by Aegis on Friday June 12 2020, @02:19PM (1 child)

          by Aegis (6714) on Friday June 12 2020, @02:19PM (#1006872)

          Yep, blacks are getting murdered left and right but the real travesty is waiting a month to watch Gone With the Wind.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @10:32PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @10:32PM (#1007117)

            That's not correct. It's nowhere near as common as some folks would have you believe. You'd think there were roving police vans assassinating random black people that were just minding their own business.

            The reason why George Floyd's killing has had such an impact is because it's not normal. The way the statistics are quoted is very misleading, most police abused of power result in much less physical injury.

            We do have a problem with policing, but misrepresentations aren't helpful. The sheer size of the police agencies ensure that even if a tiny fraction of a fraction of a percent of contacts result in abuse of power, it's going to be a huge number over all.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @09:44PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @09:44PM (#1007093)

          Get fucked you racist bag of mostly fetid water.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @07:56AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @07:56AM (#1007348)

          Blacks certainly don't get less sex.

          How do you know this?
          Are you peeking in bedroom windows?

          • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:13PM

            by Nuke (3162) on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:13PM (#1007570)

            No, just watch porn.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:38PM (#1006491)

      Muh racism!

      Interesting use of metaphor there since you white supremacist nazi apologists are usually arguing for less "color."

      I'm glad this pains you, shows your true colors. By the way, should the baker be forced to bake the gay wedding cake?

      As a liberal leftist progressive socialist I can say I was happy with the decision that they had to sell gay people cakes but did not have to write a "gay" message on the cake. Seemed like a good balance of everyone's freedoms.

      I'm sure you won't be able to hold such thoughts in your little bigoted head, but no biggie nyuk nyuk.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:49PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:49PM (#1006504)

      I have yet to witness any racial inequality other than the mandatory racial profiling required for hiring positions where the job goes not to the best candidate, but to the person who *isn't* white because *racism*.

      It's actually racism.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:35PM (#1006541)

        Well if you had taken the systemic racism seriously such heavy handed legislation would not have been needed. Simple fact is you were totally fine with black applicants being rejected for their race, or you were naive and simply didn't believe it was a real issue (insert meritocracy bullshit here).

        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:57PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:57PM (#1006612)

          Muh Forty Acres and a Mule. Did you ever read about blind CV practices [abc.net.au] and conclude they were evidence of systemic sexism?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:55PM (#1006560)

        While that may be true, how many companies are hiring the "best candidate" vs hiring someone that will fit into the team and accept the pay being offered? A qualified minority candidate will probably be offered the job because of the diversity points are beneficial to the company. He may not be the best, but neither are the coworkers.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:33PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @07:33PM (#1006540)

      Black Americans are tired of *living* racial inequality. They've been dealing with it a lot longer than you have. It harms them a lot more than it harms you.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @11:36PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @11:36PM (#1006658)

        Black Americans are tired of *living* racial inequality.

        Then maybe black Americans shouldn't riot, loot, ransack, and destroy businesses that are run by black people who are trying to make a better lives for themselves. There are dozens of videos out there by black store owners standing in front of their store screaming "Do BLM to the protestors?. Look at my store...its' destroyed..I'm black but why don't I matter?" This is stuff CNN never seems to show.

        All the black leaders, the ones that have money, the celebrities should do something to fix it but never do. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan don't do shit but tell black people all their problems are due to white racism. Mayors in Baltimore have been black for over 30 years, but the poor black neighborhoods are worse off than ever! They don't even care about their own people once they get elected. Democrats don't do shit either-most black people vote for them for what they did 70 years ago but haven't done much since to help black people.

        Black lives do matter, but not so much to blacks.

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @12:25AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @12:25AM (#1006680)

          Then maybe black Americans shouldn't riot, loot, ransack, and destroy businesses that are run by black people who are trying to make a better lives for themselves.

          Correct, but the rioters in our city destroying police cars and whatnot were lily-white, freshly escaped from their wealthy suburban parents' basement.

        • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday June 12 2020, @01:25PM

          by Thexalon (636) on Friday June 12 2020, @01:25PM (#1006848)

          I don't know which of the protests you attended, but the people doing the vast majority of the violence and vandalism, at least in my area, were cops. And in places where the instigators of the violence has been identified, the person in question has been white, and sometimes a white person who was part of a white supremacist group. There have been also rumors of undercover cops trying to turn protests into riots, as part of a long-standing "agents provocateur" tactic.

          Also, white people will riot for some of the dumbest reasons imaginable: "Our favorite sports team won." "Our favorite sports team lost." A lily-white crowd started a riot at a local pumpkin festival [youtube.com]. And yet for some reason you aren't blaming that for white people's lot in life.

          And I could rewrite your second-to-last paragraph like this and be just as true:
          -------------------------------
          All the white leaders, the ones that have money, the celebrities should do something to fix it but never do. Mitch McConnell, Jim Walton, and Tucker Carlson don't do shit but tell white people all their problems are due to black people. Sheriffs in rural Mississippi have been white for over 30 years, but the poor white neighborhoods are worse off than ever! They don't even care about their own people once they get elected. Republicans don't do shit either-most white people vote for them for what they did 70 years ago but haven't done much since to help white people.
          -------------------------------

          And yet for some reason, every time a white guy shoots up a country music concert or a church or a public school, you don't have people on TV saying "Where are the leaders of the white community? Why aren't they condemning this white-on-white violence? Why aren't they putting a stop to the massive crime problem among white people?"

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          The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:01PM (5 children)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:01PM (#1006566) Journal

      "It's all white people's fault" is the new, acceptable variant of anti-Semitism or the Yellow Peril.

      America is, however, still 73% white. What happens when they get tired of the white-hate?

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      Washington DC delenda est.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:30PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:30PM (#1006578)

        Don't worry, it won't last long, nothing but some more unmarked people in riot gear doling out beatings and pepper spray can't handle. You can go back to your bunker and wait it out. We just need to throw those dark skins a bone here and there and they'll let us real Americans get back to running things.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:51PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:51PM (#1006588)

          Th3 W@11

      • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:02PM (#1006594)

        What happens when they get tired of the white-hate?

        They re-elect Trump, and possibly turn over control of the House too.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @10:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @10:55PM (#1006643)

        Are those pearls you're clutching to or did you just go to the wrong truck stop?

      • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday June 12 2020, @03:17AM

        by legont (4179) on Friday June 12 2020, @03:17AM (#1006749)

        That's easy. Blacks alredy invited Hispanics and Asians to the "revolution". At some point Caucasians will join in as well and the happy family once again will try to exterminate Jews and Indians - not American Indians, mind you, but gypsie kind.

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