Gone with the Wind Cancelled

What about Charlie Chan, i dont see why not if White Chicks is ok?

How about the Duke as Genghis?
If White Chicks is ok , why not this?

There's no greater abuse in Hollywood than a non-native Irish actor trying to portray an "Irish" (whatever that is) accent.

Hunky Monster wrote: »

You found one bananas Organization after you did a little google search. Pathetic as usual.

Nobody who lives in the real world fave a fiddlers fück.

Well, I never saw Lucky Charms on an Irish shelf. Must have been some reason for that.

Overheal wrote: »

Well, I never saw Lucky Charms on an Irish shelf. Must have been some reason for that.

They where around for a while, pure sugar, everyone tried them but not to Irish tastes.
There was no campaign to ban them , people bought once ,did not like them and they went away.

Hunky Monster wrote: »

When it happens the Irish sit back and laugh though. We don’t try and get the movie banned or removed because an American got to act as an Irish person.

Imagine that. Actors pretending to be something they’re not.

Shocking stuff.

That may be, but does that invalidate how other castes feel about their portrayals in media? Mickey Rooney was mentioned. Asians at large have denounced these depictions (and always have). whites aren’t upset enough by white chicks to call for it to be canceled etc. - what relevance is that to the prerogative of blacks to speak out against the way they are characterized in the culture?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

No blue in a Cork flag either but here we are.

I don't recall a Nazi swastika at a Down match.
The confederate flag at a Cork game however....

Anyone every complaining about snowflakes again should be shown the people in this thread.
People absolutely up in arms about a movie that is NOT cancelled.
It's genuinely baffling to me.

More rubbish, shelving a film that was made 81 years ago about the civil war just to keep SJWs happy.

It was about the south during the civil war so of course blacks were going to be slaves in it.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

This thread is the perfect example of how boards now mostly consists of old farts complaining about largely imaginary problems.

If you are exasperated by people concentrating on relative trivia, rather than the main issues of cultural and racial bigotry, discrimination and persecution, then I sympathise. And agree.

But it's not an "imaginary problem". The moving of Gone With the Wind into cold storage by an online distribution company; the (albeit temporary, it would appear) removal of a famous Fawlty Towers episode, the suspension of some episodes of little Britain (which I don't watch and about which I know little) all happened. And I'll bet the decisions weren't taken by any of the "old farts" who occasionally post here.

These are pathetic examples of "virtue signalling" or "posing" as it used to be called. People who substitute taking any real and substantial action on behalf of a worthy cause with minor gestures that serve no purpose other than giving the opportunity for prigs to "call out" anybody who demurs from their own standards.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Nobody said that. They said that flying a sunk of white supremacy like that was an appalling sign of ignorance. It would be like Down fans flying a swastika because it has red and black.

If they don't want to bring American politics into GAA, don't fly an American flag.

You're just a teensy step away there from calling it "cultural appropriation", which is another pointless posy way of deflecting debate away from real issues into insignificant ones.

Look. The Rebel Flag issue is a storm in a teacup. Its banning will not, I am sure, impact in any way on the fervency with which Cork people support their teams. They'll find some other "Rebel" parallel. Maybe they will identify with the "Rebel Alliiance" of Star Wars, and then come to the grounds dressed as Wookies or Ewoks or whatever (I stopped watching Star Wars after the fourth one__I'n not sure exactly who comprises the Rebel Alliance)

Of course in that situation, it is not hard to envisage those who hold the "image rights" to such costumes insisting that only "genuine" branded (ie expensive) costumes are worn in public otherwise "THEIR" intellectual property is being tradduced!!! But I digress.

All I am saying is that I firmly believe few if any Cork supporters flew the Stars n Bars in sympathy with slavery. Or the Confederacy. In fact I suspect most of them don't even know what the Confederacy was.

It is just one of numerous examples of symbols, icons, phrases, songs, words etc that might be harmless in one part of the world but would have negative connotations in others. Haven't you read/seen the Da Vinci Code?