Theater group pulls "Gone With the Wind" from summer film series b/c of pressure from SJW's
As every American over the age of 30 knows, "Gone With the Wind" is an epic romance set in and after the Civil War. Published in 1936, it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937, and was the source for the amazing 1939 movie of the same name.
The movie is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress--Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to ever win an Academy Award.
Obviously the film was immensely popular. When adjusted for inflation it's the most successful film in box-office history.
It's considered one of the greatest films of all time, placing in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of American films.
If you haven't seen it, you'd better do it now--because if the social justice warriors get their way it'll be banned within three years.
Of course you think this is absurd. Hyperbole. How could the snowflakes succeed in banning one of the top ten movies ever made? How could they get a movie made from a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel banned?
Guess you've been asleep for the last 8 months. But in any case, glad you asked. Cuz in Memphis the Orpheum Theatre Group has declared that it will delete the movie from its 2018 summer movie series "after feedback from patrons."
If you think this is a "one-off" you're too naive to breathe: the Orpheum group just got their "virtue card" punched. And now every other group--eager to get theirs punched too--will jump on the SJW bandwagon.
So if SJW's succeed in pressuring virtue-signaling groups to pull one of the best movies in history, do you think they'll stop there? "But surely," I hear you saying, "no one would dare pull a Pulitzer-prize-winning novel off library shelves! That's simply un-possible!"
Oh, good--spoken like true virtue-signalers. But try to find the classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in a school library. Most have pulled it off the shelves--because Mark Twain owned slaves!
Oh wait...he didn't.
Well, they must have pulled it cuz it wasn't a very good novel. Yeh, dat's it.
Oh wait...it's considered one of the greatest American novels--though snowflakes have criticized it (for over a century) for being "coarse" and "crude." Yeah, dat makes sense, cuz we all know Americans absolutely will not read novels labelled "coarse."
I give it three years before the snowflakes start demanding that libraries remove the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel "Gone With the Wind" from their shelves. In ten years they'll be holding book-burnings in the public square.
They'll never be satisfied. Never. And fully half of all Americans--overcome by guilt about something they had nothing at all to do with--will multiply the size of the mob by a factor of ten or so.
Yessss, my pretties, tear your nation down, bit by bit. Make your children hate themselves, make them hate the most amazing nation ever. Surrender freedom of speech, private property, free markets, capitalism. Teach your children how crucial it is to do these things--all because some Americans did what the entire world regarded as normal 150 years ago: tolerated slavery.
Imagine seeing a 15-year-old thug taking a hammer to the Pieta. Conservative thought says deck the ignorant thug, take his hammer and sit on him until the cops arrive. By contrast, Liberals would stand by and murmur approvingly: "Yaaas, that sculpture is raacis', cuz it's made out of white marble!
"We approve, cuz it's raacis', cuz the artist owned slaves!" (No, he didn't, but it's a great rationalization for destroying the priceless work.)
"We approve, cuz the sculpture is displayed in a basilica owned by the Catholic church, and everyone knows that the Church has done horrible things!"
Slow-motion war.
I've lived a great life, and don't have any children, so my interest is academic, dispassionate. But you readers almost certain have--or will have--kids. So you have one hell of an interest.
Enjoy.
The movie is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress--Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to ever win an Academy Award.
Obviously the film was immensely popular. When adjusted for inflation it's the most successful film in box-office history.
It's considered one of the greatest films of all time, placing in the top ten of the American Film Institute's list of American films.
If you haven't seen it, you'd better do it now--because if the social justice warriors get their way it'll be banned within three years.
Of course you think this is absurd. Hyperbole. How could the snowflakes succeed in banning one of the top ten movies ever made? How could they get a movie made from a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel banned?
Guess you've been asleep for the last 8 months. But in any case, glad you asked. Cuz in Memphis the Orpheum Theatre Group has declared that it will delete the movie from its 2018 summer movie series "after feedback from patrons."
If you think this is a "one-off" you're too naive to breathe: the Orpheum group just got their "virtue card" punched. And now every other group--eager to get theirs punched too--will jump on the SJW bandwagon.
So if SJW's succeed in pressuring virtue-signaling groups to pull one of the best movies in history, do you think they'll stop there? "But surely," I hear you saying, "no one would dare pull a Pulitzer-prize-winning novel off library shelves! That's simply un-possible!"
Oh, good--spoken like true virtue-signalers. But try to find the classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in a school library. Most have pulled it off the shelves--because Mark Twain owned slaves!
Oh wait...he didn't.
Well, they must have pulled it cuz it wasn't a very good novel. Yeh, dat's it.
Oh wait...it's considered one of the greatest American novels--though snowflakes have criticized it (for over a century) for being "coarse" and "crude." Yeah, dat makes sense, cuz we all know Americans absolutely will not read novels labelled "coarse."
I give it three years before the snowflakes start demanding that libraries remove the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel "Gone With the Wind" from their shelves. In ten years they'll be holding book-burnings in the public square.
They'll never be satisfied. Never. And fully half of all Americans--overcome by guilt about something they had nothing at all to do with--will multiply the size of the mob by a factor of ten or so.
Yessss, my pretties, tear your nation down, bit by bit. Make your children hate themselves, make them hate the most amazing nation ever. Surrender freedom of speech, private property, free markets, capitalism. Teach your children how crucial it is to do these things--all because some Americans did what the entire world regarded as normal 150 years ago: tolerated slavery.
Imagine seeing a 15-year-old thug taking a hammer to the Pieta. Conservative thought says deck the ignorant thug, take his hammer and sit on him until the cops arrive. By contrast, Liberals would stand by and murmur approvingly: "Yaaas, that sculpture is raacis', cuz it's made out of white marble!
"We approve, cuz it's raacis', cuz the artist owned slaves!" (No, he didn't, but it's a great rationalization for destroying the priceless work.)
"We approve, cuz the sculpture is displayed in a basilica owned by the Catholic church, and everyone knows that the Church has done horrible things!"
Slow-motion war.
I've lived a great life, and don't have any children, so my interest is academic, dispassionate. But you readers almost certain have--or will have--kids. So you have one hell of an interest.
Enjoy.
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