de-Haviland played a very sympathetic character in GWTW. She had probably, the least offensive role in that film .
She also had a part in "Roots " and the movie “The North and South”, I don’t know the characters she played in either. I do know she was a fine actress in many, many films.
I don’t know what was in her heart, therefore I don’t know her stand on racism/equality.
It’s a movie, folks. Not a history lesson.
Glad to hear it, but also seriously, it isn’t unreasonable for people to wonder where this is all going to end when there is no particularly defined requirement for what gets removed, and both major cultural figures and fairly recent popular comedy shows have got the axe.
You are citing cases, as was the OP, in which the requirements were clearly defined and applied, The requirements were that the decision would be made by the rightful owners of the material because they felt like it, and they didn’t have to ask you or anyone else about it.
I don’t think that’s they’re goal here.
Reasonable people understand that media conglomerates make the decisions which going to make them the most money, and nobody (not you, not me, and definitely not the government) gets to tell them they’re not allowed to remove or recontextualize films or shows that many of their viewers find offensive.
That’s how a free society operates.
I lol’d
Is a human, who participated in a horribly racist (by today’s standards) society guilty as much as any other person who participated in horribly racist activities (by today’s standards) in their time?
Define “horribly racist”. Define “guilty”.
kswiss,
I’m detecting an undercurrent of insincerity here in your posts. Either step up your game in this thread or I’m sending it to the Pit.
She had an opportunity to be in a movie with a good cast and make some money. So, for that, we should condemn her as a human being? The fact that she was performing in a movie doesn’t brand her as a horrible person.
So unaccountable media conglomerates are in charge of what content we are allowed to watch and no one should complain about it? That seems… strangely dystopian.
There’s plenty of countries in the world that are homophobic, many are becoming more so. If Netflix decides to remove all shows with gay characters in those countries because their viewers find it offensive, you’d be good with that?
Both parts of that first sentence are false, which sorts of steps on the second sentence.
Where did anyone actually say they believed anything like that?
If unaccountable media conglomerates are allowed to take away our beloved black-face then they may decide to remove all shows with gay characters??? WTF!
CMC
The amount of times I see “This content is not available in your location” tends to disagree with you.
How about my second paragraph? If Polish Netflix removed all shows with gay characters, would you shrug and say “the decision was be made by the rightful owners of the material because they felt like it, and they didn’t have to ask you or anyone else about it”?
Anyone alive doing anything at all in 1939 when the movie came out was participating in a racist society even more racist than our current one. So everyone back then, without exception, was a racist, and so on back through all of human history.
Deal with it.
I, for one, am not ready to burn down the world and civilization in some bizarre attempt to atone for millennia of wrongness. Much more productive would be to concentrate on improving the present and future.
Then you are not the strawman the OP is looking for.
Yes, if the decision was made by the rightful owners of the material because they feel like it. That is the law here and by international agreement. The alternative is having the government or mobs controlling what the rightful owners of material do with their property. I don’t know if that’s what you want but you made this claim:
But there is a clearly defined requirement for what gets removed and it’s been applied.
Sigh. Do you think it’s fine for media companies to remove content their viewers find offensive, or not? Bearing in mind that different people have very different ideas about what is offensive.
What do YOU think?
If they own the material, or are hosting it on their platform, and they make the decision to remove it- yes. It’s fine.