Richardson Statue Coming Down

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

So who wants to have a Gone With the Wind viewing party tonight?

Perfect example.  A period movie, so it is being nixed because it's historically accurate.  History aside, it offends people, so it goes to the trash heap.   History is not always warm and fuzzy, actually a lot of major historical events ARE NOT.

[LegioX]

14 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Perfect example.  A period movie, so it is being nixed because it's historically accurate.  History aside, it offends people, so it goes to the trash heap.   History is not always warm and fuzzy, actually a lot of major historical events ARE NOT.

And the African American actor won an Oscar for her performance.

[Inimicus]

20 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Perfect example.  A period movie, so it is being nixed because it's historically accurate.  History aside, it offends people, so it goes to the trash heap.   History is not always warm and fuzzy, actually a lot of major historical events ARE NOT.

such a drama queen

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html

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A spokesperson for HBO Max, which like CNN is owned by WarnerMedia, told CNN Business that "Gone with the Wind" is "a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society."

 

"These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible," the spokesperson said.

 

The spokesperson added that when the film returns to HBO Max, it "will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions," and will be presented "as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed."

 

[micnificent28]

24 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Perfect example.  A period movie, so it is being nixed because it's historically accurate.  History aside, it offends people, so it goes to the trash heap.   History is not always warm and fuzzy, actually a lot of major historical events ARE NOT.

Historically accurate? What slaves were happily enslaved.. who would enjoy that?

[Jeremy Igo]

54 minutes ago, bull123 said:

cant just pretend it didnt happen

those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

if all the monuments offend so much, then move them to the battlefields

This is the most hilarious of all the arguments to keep traitors statues up.

Books are for learning and recognizing our dark history. Large bronze statues are not.

[45catfan]

2 minutes ago, Inimicus said:

such a drama queen

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html

 

So it will be brought back only when deemed acceptable?  Cool, good to know.  Again, It's dumb to even have to do that because it's understood when the time period occurred without the need for "disclaimers".  If American's are too ignorant (and many are) to understand that doesn't represent today's society and what went on during that era, you get the what's going on today.   For an example, a poll was taken about the meaning of Memorial Day and most people couldn't correctly answer it.   

 

[rodeo]

32 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Perfect example.  A period movie, so it is being nixed because it's historically accurate.  History aside, it offends people, so it goes to the trash heap.   History is not always warm and fuzzy, actually a lot of major historical events ARE NOT.

it's not "being nixed," it was temporarily taken off of HBO's streaming site so they can put a disclaimer on it and put it back.

it's also not historically accurate whatsoever lol

[45catfan]

8 minutes ago, micnificent28 said:

Historically accurate? What slaves were happily enslaved.. who would enjoy that?

It's fictional movie, historically accurate in terms of acknowledging slavery during that era.  

[Brooklyn 3.0]

If we're going to start putting disclaimers before historically inaccurate movies ... someone is going to be very busy.

[rico6]

@45catfan is trying so hard to romanticize the (ir)relevance of these racist scare crows to the point he’s comparing their historical importance to the Great Wall of China lol

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

If we're going to start putting disclaimers before historically inaccurate movies ... someone is going to be very busy.

There's the problem.  Suzy is offended by something so it needs to be erased or modified.  Billy thinks something else is offensive, so it has to be taken away. Leo says, well, I think this other thing is offensive.  After multiplying this scenario out over million times, history is all but erased or modified to be acceptable.

[rodeo]

Just now, 45catfan said:

There's the problem.  Suzy is offended by something so it needs to be erased or modified.  Billy thinks something else is offensive, so it has to be taken away. Leo says, well, I think this other thing is offensive.  After multiplying this scenario out over million times, history is all but erased or modified to be acceptable.

again, nobody is modifying the movie. you're making a strawman.

warner brothers has had 'this is bad' acknowledgments in front of their old blackface cartoons for decades. you survived.

[45catfan]

4 minutes ago, rico6 said:

@45catfan is trying so hard to romanticize the (ir)relevance of these racist scare crows to the point he’s comparing their historical importance to the Great Wall of China lol

Know your history @rico6? Because it doesn't look like it.

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, rodeo said:

again, nobody is modifying the movie. you're making a strawman.

warner brothers has had 'this is bad' acknowledgments in front of their old blackface cartoons for decades. you survived.

So if they have disclaimers, they are acceptable?