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In reply to the discussion: "Gone With the Wind" pulled from HBO Max library for now [View all]moonseller66
(430 posts)50. I don't like someone telling me what I can watch, read or listen to.
Some worry too much if they feel something isn't what they like because it's wrong or objectionable or whatever, in their opinion, that they need to watch out for all the others who may be too ignorant (unknowing) to understand what they're watching, reading or listening to or to have it banned or shelved.
Rather than censor...educate. But let them choose.
Like Carlin said, you can turn the item off or change the channel. It shouldn't be for others to decide, within reason (have at it), what the rest of us can watch, read or listen to.
Just a thought. Which means others can decide for themselves whether to accept this comment or not.
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Well, i don't hear anyone advocating having the government destroy all copies of GWTW.
thucythucy
Jun 2020
#10
So I take it you are in favor of keeping Confederate statues in the public square?
killaphill
Jun 2020
#35
+1. There are hundreds of films, perhaps thousands, that could arguably be pulled ...
Auggie
Jun 2020
#36
Agree. Hattie McDaniel won the first Oscar for an African American in this film. n/t
Calista241
Jun 2020
#68
A review by Cass Sunstein in The Atlantic from 2015 gives a somewhat different point of view.
honest.abe
Jun 2020
#20
May be for the best. Mitchell certainly did his part in perpetuating the 'noble lost cause' myth.
PatrickforO
Jun 2020
#22
Did you notice my note the says HBO will eventually return it to the lineup .....
groundloop
Jun 2020
#48
That and "Birth of a Nation" need to be relegated to the dust bins of film history
BumRushDaShow
Jun 2020
#43
And the Taliban and ISIS destroyed forever their own historical wonders.
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2020
#62