'Gone with the Wind' Temporarily Removed from HBO Max for 'Racist Depictions'

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The streamer will later return the film to its library with a 'discussion of its historical context.'

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"romanticizes the Confederacy in a way that continues to give legitimacy to the notion that the secessionist movement was something more, or better, or more noble than what it was—a bloody insurrection to maintain the 'right' to own, sell and buy human beings." Mindful of censorship, though, Ridley asked not that the film be locked up completely, but that it be accompanied with other works on HBO Max that give a fuller picture of slavery and the Confederacy."Or, perhaps it could be paired with conversations about narratives and why it's important to have many voices sharing stories from different perspectives rather than merely those reinforcing the views of the prevailing culture," he continued.

 

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