Gone with the Wind Cancelled

Edgware

AlekSmart wrote: »

And during the intermission,you can sing along with the Hebrew Slaves (But it's OK,they're mainly white )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VejTwFjwVI

Apparently it was composed by one of the Green's :eek:

Also they were Hebrews i.e. Jews so they dont matter

ted1

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Basil Fawlty and the Germans. That's another one. Too much stereotyping.

What about Basils Irish builder ?

ted1

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The League Of Gentleman has been removed from Netflix.

Is white men can’t jump, still there ?
Straight outta Compton ?

_Kaiser_

I'll be very honest here.

What happened to the man was wrong, shouldn't have happened, and those involved should and hopefully will face justice.

But that's as far as my sympathies or interest goes. I don't live in America, it didn't happen in Ireland, and we don't have the same deeply divided society or issues that they do.

I certainly don't support the rapid bandwagoning, protests, and attempts to rewrite or erase history or now entertainment media from years or even decades ago on the back of this latest social media led crusade.

In fact, the more stories I see about movies and TV shows being removed, or political messaging on this topic being shoehorned into inappropriate places (FFS COD Warzone had a BLM ad/statement in the menus when I played it last), the LESS I care about the whole issue.

I think Trump may actually have been on to something in his recent argument with Twitter to be honest. It's become a dangerous weapon to force a narrative on a global scale and seems to draw those who 'need' validation and to be 'first' to it like a moth to a flame.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

ted1 wrote: »

Is white men can’t jump, still there ?
Straight outta Compton ?

Straight Outta Compton is still there. White Men Can’t Jump isn’t but I think that might have left a while ago.

SouthWesterly

Once dads army isn't pulled, I don't care

kildare lad

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Once dads army isn't pulled, I don't care

I'm sure they'll find something, there's no diversity in it

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

This video sumsup the current sensitivity at the moment.

Overheal

peddlelies wrote: »

Liberal activist 101 playbook, keep downplaying everything! They might not notice as time progresses that our ultra liberal dystopian dreams are coming to fruition.

Should share this news around with a few conspiracists on the trump thread.

skooterblue2

RandomViewer wrote: »

I think she'll have to wait in line behind Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Michael Madsen and Tom Cruise,

If we could only forgive Richard Gere in the Jackal...... baby jesus wept

Overheal

THE_SHEEP wrote: »

I was actually going to watch " Blazing Saddles " in their honour .

Quote : " The sheriff is a N.......... " .

Just watch Hateful 8 extended if that’s what you’re tickled for

skooterblue2

Biker79 wrote: »

Slavery was an economic system that was widely practised - and still is actually, in Libya. I think some among the Travelling community in England were at it, up until recently.

I believe some version of it is common, also, in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

My guess is that the majority of slaves were well treated and found the arrangement agreeable in terms of being fed and housed.

I sometimes wonder if sitting on the M50 on the way to an open-plan office, with a w***r boss and a 35-year mortgage, is also some kind of slavery. With a few bells and whistles added on.

Slavery is alive in this country. If you are on social welfare you are a slave to the government and if you are a contract worker with a mortgage you are a serf.

dresden8

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

The permanently outraged will always find something to be outraged about.

Indeed. The perpetually outraged about murder, will, by, definition, be perpetually outraged while murder continues. it's built in. Oven baked as it were.

skooterblue2

"It aint half hot mum" with Windsor Davis is another one to be censored.

Rubberchikken

I have it on DVD so the short sighted censorship that these morons insist on won't affect me.

It's backward we're going and pandering to these idiots is inexcusable.

It's times like this that I regret the invention of social media.
Without it, loudmouthed stupid people would have no where convenient to sprout their nonsense.

skooterblue2

Rubberchikken wrote: »

I have it on DVD so the short sighted censorship that these morons insist on won't affect me.

It's backward we're going and pandering to these idiots is inexcusable.

It's times like this that I regret the invention of social media.
Without it, loudmouthed stupid people would have no where convenient to sprout their nonsense.

They are learning this rubbish on stupid courses like Social science, gender studies and other stupid courses at universities where rich kids have nothing to do for 4 years but develop mental health problems and blame everyone else for their problems. Put them on real courses like Science and Business and they will be run off their feet.

Sheep_shear

I watched Breakfast at Tiffanys for the first time recently. Doing a watch-all-classics-you've-missed-on lockdown routine with the missus. The Mickey Rooney thing comes out of nowhere, I guess that'll be on the chopping block too. Shame, I really enjoyed the movie.

_Kaiser_

What this will actually lead to is a rise in piracy as people go looking for the original uncensored versions (where things have been cut or edited) or simply because the platforms have decided that we need to be protected from these things now :rolleyes:

Remember when the Maud Flanders character was mocked in the Simpsons? Now she'd be running the town

TheDavester

skooterblue2 wrote: »

They are learning this rubbish on stupid courses like Social science, gender studies and other stupid courses at universities where rich kids have nothing to do for 4 years but develop mental health problems and blame everyone else for their problems. Put them on real courses like Science and Business and they will be run off their feet.

add helicopter parenting - these kids (for lack of a better word) cant do anything for themselves...worked in places where fresh out of college adults have to go to their mother to ring to book a doctor's appointment....and just shriek loudest in protest/on twatter to get their way

Cal4567

All this is just the latest chapter in a cultural war initiated by elements of Leftist thought who have been struggling for decades to get a foothold in power. Once they do, they tend not to last very long, although usually propelled back into power by the failure of right wing governments once a significant number of the masses realise they are no better off.

As any good socialist worker will tell you, it is not about being in power, so much can be done from the sidelines, to effect change. Any one who queries any of this is labelled either sexist or racist. A hundred years ago they were 'counter revolutionaries', taken out and shot. Thankfully, these days, the punishment is less severe, normally not going much further than being named and shamed on social media.

If anyone has seen any polls about all of this - George Floyd/protests/looting/taking down statues etc, please do post a link.

I get a sense too that the media after 3 months is fed up with Covid and has jumped on this issue. The Guardian in the UK is revelling in it. The issue should be the policing standards across the US and no more.

Sheep_shear

Cal4567 wrote: »

The Guardian in the UK is revelling in it. The issue should be the policing standards across the US and no more.

The Guardian supported the Confederacy in the US Civil war. They should be careful!

kowloonkev

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

What this will actually lead to is a rise in piracy as people go looking for the original uncensored versions (where things have been cut or edited) or simply because the platforms have decided that we need to be protected from these things now :rolleyes:

Remember when the Maud Flanders character was mocked in the Simpsons? Now she'd be running the town

Well I will be holding out on subscribing to Netflix for the time being. I would certainly prefer to pay the same amount for original content than pay for my favourite shows with a warning at the beginning, whatever the source. Streaming sites ought to remember that the majority of their customers are not sad jobless douchebags who have nothing better to do than whinge and cry and call foul because they lost the game of life.

Tork

At the rate things are going, we'll have nothing left to watch, read or listen to. Has nobody ever read a book, listened to a song or watched a film and thought "I don't agree with that" but kept going anyway? I've never seen Gone With The Wind but I'm sure most people who do know that it is of its time and view it through that filter. I'd prefer they left these things uncensored but accompanied them with some sort of short informational just to give the context. It's downright patronising to assume that people don't live in the real world or can't think for themselves.

Fionn1952

Load of nonsense really. As a fairly left-leaning, socially liberal person myself, I can't help but facepalm through all this.

Then again, if it keeps up, I might make a fortune on my Dennis Wheatley novels on the black market.

Snickers Man

vetinari wrote: »

Honestly I have no idea what you're talking about.
Gone with the Wind isn't banned.

You're right. It's not. It's been told like a naughty child to "Go sit in the corner and just think about what you said, before we let you out to play again."

Now in the grand scheme of things like police brutality, everyday racism, institutional racism (the two are different), rape, spousal abuse, paedophilia, homelessness, housing shortages, overcrowding, lockdown-induced unemployment, emigration, immigration, international sabre rattling, climate change etc etc it's pretty small beer.

But it's an irritant. And if somebody is granted an op-ed in a leading US newspaper to virtue signal then he must expect a reaction. And if the issue is so insignificant, why is it worthy of such an announcement in one of the US's "newspapers of record" in the first place.?

Tork

Banning the likes of Gone With The Wind is the thin end of the wedge. It's a different version of the information silos many people are now immersed in. By only watching Fox Newd or reading the Daily Mail or people they agree with on Twitter, they fail to see the big picture. It's reducing the world to facile soundbites.

Timberrrrrrrr

Tork wrote: »

Banning the likes of Gone With The Wind is the thin end of the wedge. It's a different version of the information silos many people are now immersed in. By only watching Fox Newd or reading the Daily Mail or people they agree with on Twitter, they fail to see the big picture. It's reducing the world to facile soundbites.

It's not "banned" though.

Tork

We'll see how this current unavailablity pans out. Even if it isn't banned, it's probably going to be.

Barna77

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Basil Fawlty and the Germans. That's another one. Too much stereotyping.

I guess I'll start lobbying to cancel Fawlty Towers too because of Manuel











(I won't)

Odhinn

Tork wrote: »

We'll see how this current unavailablity pans out. Even if it isn't banned, it's probably going to be.

Unlikely. They put a commentary on the DVDs of the old tom and jerry show where there was some dubious material included. Speedy Gonzalez was ok, but the way his fellow mexican mice were portrayed was completely wrong. As a kid I wondered why they always looked like they were drunk and half asleep.