The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis is cancelling a long-standing tradition to screen the classic Gone With the Wind following complaints the movie is ‘insensitive.’
The establishment had a 34-year history of including the film, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, as part of its summer movie series.
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Board members have determined they will remove it from next year’s series following a final airing on August 11th, and comments from the public that deemed the movie too sympathetic to the South.
And, of course, a movie made in 1939 portraying events from the Civil War era can’t simply be a source of entertainment or an opportunity to discuss America’s past – it has to be labeled racist and erased from public discourse.
Via the Daily Caller:
The board of directors of the Orpheum Theatre Group in Memphis, Tennessee has decided to end a 34-year tradition of screening “Gone with the Wind” because the board says the movie is now “insensitive.”
Board members announced the plan to remove the 1939 epic from The Orpehum’s 2018 summer movie series on Friday, reports Memphis CBS affiliate WREG-TV.
“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,” board members said in a statement.
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Social media users were to quick to mock the left’s further attempts to rewrite the history of the Civil War – even Hollywood’s version of events …
And Coca Cola is racist. Where will this end? pic.twitter.com/Oxb64iQmYq
— Cathy RN 4 Trump (@BigLeague2020) August 27, 2017
Did I really just read that a theatre cancelled a showing of “Gone with the Wind” for being “insensitive”? Is this real life?? pic.twitter.com/IuUqSE4Rzt
— Marianna Neal (@ImpressionBlend) August 27, 2017
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Aside from the ample and easy mockery of the left, there’s this little irony – Gone With the Wind actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award.
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She took home the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in the 1939 classic.
McDaniel appeared in over 300 films and has two stars on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Now, the film that earned her race-barrier-breaking notoriety will be slowly phased out of America’s consciousness.
What a shame.
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Ahhhhhh more “book burning” by the Communists Left. Just Useful Idiots.
Liberal female calls 911:
Dispatcher: “911 What’s your emergency?”
Distraught and crying liberal female: “I just saw a statue!”
The American public must come to their senses that a very small (and well paid well coordinated) group is wielding immense power over the minds of the next generation. The impact of the current events is going to resonate for the next century, maybe longer, if Americans do not drastically and aggressively return to Americanism. Every country on earth is defiantly proud of its heritage and history – except, it appears, the USA.
So what’s next? Will “Gone With The Wind” be banned for sale on AMAZON and EBAY, just like Confederate flags ????
You can always buy your confederate flags from the local KKK outpost.
frankly my dear, i don’t give a damn!!!
Shouldn’t this also include blockbusters like “Roots” by Alex Haley? His movie showcases more inequalities in 10 minutes than Gone With The Wind shows the entire movie. In my opinion, the Ultra Left PC community (however small) is trying to drag the entire World into erasing what they perceive as anything remotely anti PC. People, lets unite and prevent this wrong from proceeding further than it has already. Is the World going crazy?
Big shocker here. I knew that this was going to happen. It is not politically correct. If the actors were alive they’d be facing hate for being in the film.
Political correctness is the strongest, most pernicious force in our society today. Calling people and things “racist” comes in second.
The term “Political Correctness” was coined by Joseph Stalin 40 years before the West ever heard of it.
i have to Agree that it is a boring movie, I have never watched it all the way through. It’s entertainment, and should be treated as that. Some people need to get a life!!!!!!
I have been predicting this would be next, to include removing from library shelves.
More BS from the insensitive Left!
It’s not an insensitive movie… it is a boring movie. It is two hours too long.
Nick at a Night is probably more your style anyway.
Nick at night is boring… so is GWTW. The first half was good but the last half dragged. Snore. GWTW is overrated.
If you watched 2 hours you only saw a little more than the first half of it.
Do you have trouble telling time too?