Diogenes’ Middle Finger: It was only a matter of time until the war on Confederate statues metastasized to culture and the first target it seems is “Gone With the Wind”, considered one of the greatest American movies ever made and currently #4 on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 movies of all time.
The Orpheum Theater in Memphis Tenn. have started the ball rolling by deciding to drop the classic 1939 movie set in the plantation era South, with a backdrop of the Civil War, from its annual Summer Movie Series due to negative feedback following the films last showing earlier this month.
“As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,” the theater’s operators said in a statement. The historic theater in Downtown Memphis has shown the movie for decades, but this year’s event “generated numerous comments,” leading to the decision.” –WREG.com Memphis
By deeming a classic like “Gone With the Wind” which won Eight Academy Awards to be so offensive that it is effectively being censored will only embolden the cultural jihadists to go after other films. Can we say Cowboys and Indians?? more here
They only saw the performance of Butterfly McQueen and nobody else. Why, because they wanted to.
I think it would be great if these groups would go after movies like GWTW (as well as the book) demanding that they either recut to remove what they determine is offensive or all prints destroyed along with the book. Have them screaming in the streets in front of theatres as well as boycotting Amazon as long as they still sell it. That would define them for what they actually are, which are Nazis.
I posted awhile back that after they pulled down all the statues, they would come for the books.
I forgot about the movies.
This is leftist Tara-ism.
Frankly, we better give a damn!
Now everything is gone with the wind.
This is the kind of behavior exhibited by people who’s lives have been too easy.
Keep it up Lefties! You think that more than half of the country agrees with your constant demands, you are so far wrong.
TCM is fcuked!
Every time the Left farts something is gone with the wind!
And here all along I thought it was an anti-slavery movie.
I imagine “Lonesome Dove” will be next for the way Larry McMurthy treated Blue Duck and his band of half breed thugs.
(Best Western eveah)
Don’t forget Cleopatra and all her slaves.
Try tearing down the pyramids??!!
The last cruise I went on left out of Norfolk Va and they were playing this on the ships Jumbotron.
Most of the passengers were form Petersburg, Hampton Roads and Richmond.
Man that was some kind of funny right there!
Didn’t the African-American media of 1939 have a positive opinion of “Gone With the Wind”?
Just another step on the path of white genocide. Brainwash as many people as possible to be ashamed of merely being white. Tear down all art associated with whites. Destroy language associated with whites. Destroy music, film, and literature associated with whites.
Replace it with that shit the ghetto trash like.
When is somebody going to stand their ground and say enough!
Riots for sure.
How can this be happening in a country that just had eight years of Black Enlightenment? Is this the end result of the Fundamental Transformation we were promised, or just the start of the Cultural Revolution we didn’t realize our country needed? Stalin and Mao would feel right at home with these Cultural Revisionists.
Cuz one outta three ain’t bad.
In the “end”, nothing will be permitted but Brokeback Ghetto.
Movies come from Books.Now approaching the bottom of the Slope.
It’s being replaced with “Song of the South!” Zippedeedoodah!
Personally, I think Black Apes Matter should boycott KING KONG…all fourteen versions of it.
(Don’t forget the XXX version: KING DONG)
https://youtu.be/GQ5ICXMC4xY
Replaced with 2006 Idiocracy!!!!! Good fit.
As God is my witness, our country is reaping what Obama and the Left has sown.
Obama, The First and The Worst. The Affirmative Action President.
They’d better damn well keep their hands off MY favorite movie…Birth of a Nation. 👿