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http://wreg.com/2017/08/25/orpheum-theater-wont-show-gone-with-the-wind-calling-film-insensitive/

Orpheum theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’

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thethe said:
I'd rather someone be raised by the community as opposed to the globalist media conglomerates.
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I'd think the message itself is what's important, not where the message is coming from. If the Globalists oppose White Supremacy then it would seem to follow that in that instance it's more valid than someone who learns to support it by their community.
 
mqt said:
I'd think the message itself is what's important, not where the message is coming from. If the Globalists oppose White Supremacy then it would seem to follow that in that instance it's more valid than someone who learns to support it by their community.
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globalists = epithet for someone thethe does not agree with
 
mqt said:
I'm not sure what the issue is here. They aren't showing the film based on feedback from their audience, and I really fail to see how it's absurd to call the film insensitive. It's not like the city of Memphis banned the film or something.
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Out of curiosity, have you seen the movie? What in particular would you label as 'insensitive' about it?
 
thethe said:
Untrue - I don't agree with Liberals but they are not the globalists. THey are just being used as an easily manipulated group by the Globalists.
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what makes someone a globalist...and can you give me some examples...is Gary Cohn a globalist...if not what would he have to do to become one...how about Kushner
 
Hawk said:
Out of curiosity, have you seen the movie? What in particular would you label as 'insensitive' about it?
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Yeah, I've seen it. I'm not offended by the film, but the depiction of slaves as happy servants who are threatened by freed blacks and the positive depiction of the Antebellum South would be enough to question whether or not some audiences would find it to be sensitive to racial issues.
 
sturg33 said:
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/08/15/espn-apology-fantasy-football-auction

ESPN had to apologize for the outrage it caused for the auction fantasy football draft segment they aired...

This is getting silly, people
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This reminds me of the college kid that saw a priest carrying a rosary and tweeted a warning that there was someone in KKK clothes carrying a whip on campus. Some people are just trained to see race everywhere. I can call a black baby a ****** all day long and he won't care because he hasn't been taught to be offended yet.

Personally, when I can make a "racist" joke to a black friend and he knows I am just kidding is when we are in a post racial world. The same people who say a "racist" joke is hurtful even if it is not meant to be hurtful are the ones who say white people who get offended by white race jokes are babies.
 
Hawk said:
Out of curiosity, have you seen the movie? What in particular would you label as 'insensitive' about it?
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Gone with the Wind is basically the biggest hollywood example of promoting the Lost Cause. ALso worth noting that Birth of a Nation was an incredibly well regarded film up until Civil Rights era.
 
zitothebrave said:
Gone with the Wind is basically the biggest hollywood example of promoting the Lost Cause. ALso worth noting that Birth of a Nation was an incredibly well regarded film up until Civil Rights era.
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What in particular would you label as 'insensitive' about it?
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The 'Lost Cause' is a not a pejorative catchall.
 
Julio has given David Blight's "Race and Reunion" props on this forum multiple times recently. Here's what Blight had to say about GWTW: One of the ideas the reconciliationist Lost Cause instilled deeply into the national culture is that even when Americans lose, they win. Such was the message, the indomitable spirit, that Margaret Mitchell infused into her character Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, and such, perhaps, is the basis of the enduring legend of Robert E. Lee -- through noble character, he won by losing.
 
mqt said:
Yeah, I've seen it. I'm not offended by the film, but the depiction of slaves as happy servants who are threatened by freed blacks and the positive depiction of the Antebellum South would be enough to question whether or not some audiences would find it to be sensitive to racial issues.
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Yikes - a litmus test using those criteria would seem to lasso a whole bunch of titles.
 
Hawk said:
Yikes - a litmus test using those criteria would seem to lasso a whole bunch of titles.
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So be it. Again, we're discussing a business strategy from an individual movie theater so if they decide it's in their best interest to not show any film that falls into those categories then who really cares?
 
mqt said:
So be it. Again, we're discussing a business strategy from an individual movie theater so if they decide it's in their best interest to not show any film that falls into those categories then who really cares?
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That's how you are choosing to frame the discussion, sure, but it's a banal approach to the underlying issue and besides the point. My comments have centered around determining what makes this film suddenly and overtly "insensitive" - why was it OK to screen on August 11th but not OK to screen again two weeks later? Obviously, Charlottesville, but how national sentiment toward the Confederacy (and all its associated pop culture) ties into those events on that day is something that we should all seek to dive just a little bit deeper into.

Simply demarcating between positive and negative depictions of the Ante/Post-bellum South ain't gonna cut it.
 
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