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In reply to the discussion: "Gone With the Wind" pulled from HBO Max library for now [View all]groundloop
(11,519 posts)with additional content which will "contextualize the controversial historical depictions and elements of the story"?
I admit that I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand we're talking about a classic film, on the other hand this same film seems to glorify a group of traitors to the United States who wanted to continue enslaving people.
The side of my brain that's winning out right now is the one that says we'll be better getting rid of artifacts of our past that glorify slavery and hatred, or at the very least ensuring that we put those things in the proper context. Continuing to glorify the 'old south' will, in my opinion, do nothing other than perpetuate hatred toward an entire race of people who were brutalized for the economic benefit of others.