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    HBO Max Pulls 'Gone With the Wind,' Citing Racist Depictions

    -HBO Max has removed from its catalog "Gone With the Wind," the 1939 movie long considered a triumph of American cinema but one that romanticizes the Civil War-era South while glossing over its racial sins.

    The streaming service pledged to eventually bring the film back "with a discussion of its historical context" while denouncing its racial missteps, a spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.

    Set on a plantation and in Atlanta, the film won multiple Academy Awards, including best picture and best supporting actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar, and it remains among the most celebrated movies in cinematic history. But its rose-tinted depiction of the antebellum South and its blindness to the horrors of slavery have long been criticized, and that scrutiny was renewed this week as protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continued to pull the United States into a wide-ranging conversation about race...

    HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions - The New York Times

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    I hope I don't wear my neck out shaking my head!

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    I Predicted the Culture Jihadists Would Target "Gone With the Wind"
    Todd Starnes

    I was ridiculed by many in the conservative and the leftist media for my assertion that we were approaching a day when book bannings and movie bannings would become the norm in American society.

    And producers for several well-known primetime conservative programs refused to promote the book. As I've said many times in the past, most of the people who work in conservative media are not in fact conservatives....

    I Predicted the Culture Jihadists Would Target "Gone With the Wind" | Todd Starnes

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    The new fascists are taking over

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    It's a brave new world. So THIS is the new norm the wigged out weirdo's been talking about. Seattle is being overrun in a coup right now.

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