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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: 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.

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  • (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:
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      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.
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      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.