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| Frankly, my dear, we should give a damn |
| 2020-06-11 |
| [Arutz 7] - So it’s come to this. One of our Culture Policemen found "Gone with the Wind" too racist, even too sexist, complained, and got HBO to remove it from its lineup. Call it another step toward what’s becoming Gone with our Culture. It was a great movie. Drawn from Margaret Mitchell’s classic book, it depicted the Old South authentically, warts and all. The job of a writer is to tell it how it is...or how it was...from his or her personal perspective...and both book and movie did this, truthfully, fearlessly, and grandly. Back in 1963, Oct 26 to be exact, when there were still some heroic and sane people in the country, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Amherst College, for a gathering to honor the poet Robert Frost, and this is what JFK said: "In democratic society — in it the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may." Further — "In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves the nation." I highly recommend reading the entire speech. It was one of the most elegant speeches ever given by a president. I covered it, and the era, when I wrote the historical novel "The Days of the Bitter End," back when I too was fearless. Now I don’t know. When will they come for me, for what I am writing, and for what I am reading? Ray Bradbury saw it coming, didn’t he? In "Fahrenheit 451" he gave us a world where book-reading was a crime. Books were meant to be burned. "Firemen" were on patrol to dispose of books and people caught with material so subversive. Suppose now, on top of that, you are caught watching "Gone with the Wind?" The process is not entirely new; it has only been accelerated. For years street signs, buildings and statues have been defaced, defamed, renamed to satisfy Community Standards. Whose Community? Whose Standards? They decide. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 There goes Othello |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-06-11 21:10 |
| #2 /\ "When correctly viewed, everything is lewd." Only rhymes in the correct quote |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-06-11 15:32 |
| #1 BadThink must be opposed by all Comrades: 'Song of the South': Why the Controversial Disney Movie Is Not on Disney Plus "Controversial", really? As Tom Lehrer put it: "When correctly view ...Everything is Lewd!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-06-11 15:30 |