The Purge has begun?

[kbaxter60]

...and I am not liking it.

"Gone with the Wind". Gone. With the wind.
I don't have a link, but it was in the WSJ.
"Cops" TV show: gone.
"Live PD" likely gone.
What else do we lose before this stupidity has run its course?

 

[toddnjoyce]

HBO has said Gone With The Wind will return, but it won’t be the same.
"'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," the statement said. "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."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...th-the-wind-from-library-amid-racial-tensions

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Already a thread started....

 

[kbaxter60]

Already a thread started....

Dang. I did search first.
Maybe @benenglish would kindly merge?

 

[jordanmills]

HBO has said Gone With The Wind will return, but it won’t be the same.
"'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," the statement said. "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."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...th-the-wind-from-library-amid-racial-tensions

If all they're doing is putting some disclaimer card at the beginning, and not changing the content of the movie, then I don't see much of a problem. Absent any other indication, that seems to me more like them saying "we're just delivering the movie you asked for, don't involve us in your crap"

 

[sidebite252]

Man it’s getting beyond nuts. I suspect we will see every school named after anyone associated with the confederacy will be changed. ALL confederate related statues are coming down. Almost certain (of the ones not removed already). And while I’m not one of those who has any personal or emotional connection to the confederacy it’s easy to see these will be the easy targets to remove since it’s already been in progress over recent years. So to me I say get rid of these things if it will fix the issue and make others feel better. Problem is this won’t fix anything. It won’t be enough. Unfortunately it won’t ever be enough to make everyone happy.

I’m a big sports guy. Not many sports I don’t like but I’ve watch ESPN become a politically charged. Sports center is more like WOKE center.

Our world is not equal. Life is not equal.

I am pissed if they cancel all the cop shows. That’s horseshit but I told my wife last week that would happen.

 

[sidebite252]

BEN! Please merge our threads. We are idiots. Lol

 

[Moonpie]

 

[kbaxter60]

These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today...

Well, that's interesting. If they were wrong THEN, why did they ever carry the title?

 

[Texasjack]

There is an old joke about running the movie backwards so that it has a happy ending.

 

[busykngt]

Hadn’t heard that before. That’s pretty funny.
It [the novel/movie] did start out pretty tranquil; everything ‘peaches & cream in Georgia’.

 

[jordanmills]

I suspect we will see every school named after anyone associated with the confederacy will be changed.

You mean anyone associated with white people.

 

[Kar98]

Oh well. I have the DVD. And a DVD of Song of the South.
Ironically, there was even a translation of Gone With The Wind printed and published, without comment, in Communist East Germany.

 

[busykngt]

You mean anyone associated with white people.

That’s what I keep waiting to see: Once those place names are eliminated, WHAT will replace them? Certainly not “Founding Fathers” because, as has already been pointed out, many of them have their own ‘baggage’.

As far as I can tell, where Confederate monuments have been take down, nothing has been put up in their place. Empty. Just an attempt by the “know nothings” to erase history. Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas was renamed Turtle Creek Park.

Interesting times....

 

[kbaxter60]

Oh well. I have the DVD.

That comment made me think of the book "Fahrenheit 451", for some odd reason.

 

[oldag]

Perhaps it is good for people to see what was going on at the time. That doesn't mean that one watching the movie condones what is in the movie. Historical context.

 

[jordanmills]

That’s what I keep waiting to see: Once those place names are eliminated, WHAT will replace them? Certainly not “Founding Fathers” because, as has already been pointed out, many of them have their own ‘baggage’.

As far as I can tell, where Confederate monuments have been take down, nothing has been put up in their place. Empty. Just an attempt by the “know nothings” to erase history. Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas was renamed Turtle Creek Park.

Interesting times....

Nothing. It's like a bucket of crabs. We'd just fall back to the level things were at.

 

[Mohawk600]

Already a thread in News Articles.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Already a thread in News Articles.

As stated in post 3.

 

[TheDan]

I think there's already a thread on this.