What Else Would They Like Banned.

[webbo3]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4826210/amp/Racially-insensitive-Theater-pulls-Gone-Wind.html

What else would the like banned, the wizard of Oz(short people) and witches(pagans).

[douglas9401]

Spineless cinema owners cave in to noisy, ill-informed rabble over revisionist vision of history.

'If we don't want to see it then no-one can' says unemployable drone.

[Hopkirk]

I wonder if the TV companies worry about showing The Dam Busters these days.

Guy Gibson's black labrador has a prominent role, and his name is shouted out quite a bit. It is the N word.

[bednobs]

they don't worry about ti - it's been replaced with another name (last time i saw it) Mind you, i could be mistaken - as i recall it's only said once but that does not accord with your rememberance of thinghs

[albaqwerty]

I seem to remember Glasgow City Council banned The Life of Brian until they realised that they had made themselves more of a laughing stock than usual.

[andy-hughes]

They think it 'racially insensitive' - they should try a viewing of Django Unchained, the Quentin Tarantino movie, they use the 'n' word 113 times - a large number of times it is said by black characters.

[youngmafbog]

You have to wonder who it was who complained. I'd lay money the majority of the black people see it for what it is. And let's remember Hattie McDaniel, who portrayed a slave called Mammie, became the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role. So the film does mark progress for black people, something i suspect the baying complainers probably were not aware!

This sort of thing does nothing to bring harmony, if anything it will strengthen the resolve of the nutters.

[Peter Pedant]

dam ! I was gonna do Dam Busters
[// and his name is shouted out quite a bit. It is the N word.//]

yeah ban it because of swearing in the title - those damned busters !
or Basterdz

The black dog - knee-jair lets say - has had a spotted history.
Spoken - then a period when it was bleeped out with a dog whistle and I think it is back again

yeah and what about banning Ghost Busters ?
fattism and burstism - and I note the GB car isnt electric

and biogz of Lady Di
they can go - 'die' in the title - too frightening and scenes of implied Royal adultery

so many progz and so many reasons to ban them

[Mamyalynne]

From the link ...'Patrons complained' - was this the first they knew of the storyline?


Odd.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah and Mickey Mouse
( taking the mick out of mice)
s/o had obviously ratted on plans to ban this

[Mamyalynne]

We can't unpick what has gone before and if folk want to be protected they should hide under the kitchen table.

A classic from my childhood. Something may get starred out, let's see.

//In Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, the title character's first home was his place of birth. He was born on a farm and raised on a "large pleasant meadow." He notes that his first master, Farmer Grey, was very kind and lovingly called his mother Pet though her real name was Duchess; his first master also named him Darkie. //

[albaqwerty]

'We can't unpick what has gone before and if folk want to be protected they should hide under the kitchen table.'

Love that comment Mamya! x

I'm sure it's been mentioned on AB once or twice that some folk get up in the morning and look for something to be offended about.

[anotheoldgit]

The owners of the Orpheum Theatre should have said to those complainers,

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn".

[andy-hughes]

From the link - //'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 operators have neglected to advise why they feel the need to remove this film from their venue, but it does seem that arbitrary censorship flies directly in the face of its mission statement to 'entertain, educate and enlighten its local population' - a seriously large number of that local population is having its entertainment, education and enlightenment removed because of the bigotry of some of the rest of the population.

[ToraToraTora]

what else would they like banned? Anything that has the remotest chance of being anything other than a totally sanitised completely PC account of the subject matter.

[hereIam]

Flamin' idiots !

[naomi24]

What is this? Out of sight, out of mind? With all the fuss over statues and now banning this, one could be forgiven for thinking that people want the world to forget what happened.

[fender62]

i bet the people complaining are not even black, but want to have something to have a moan about rent a mob, i remember certian nuts my old mum called nnnnner toes, never understood how that term came about, nor cared just enjoyed a nice nut.

[fbg40]

Words fail me !!
FBG40

[Togo]

Zulu anyone?

[Togo]

Thought PP may have "intervened" there, and saayyed that Zoo Loo was because of Butlings and Liverpoo footballs club. All the red cotes and spine kop(Klopp nowadays). With Lady Smith making the sand witches with lee Anfield serving them up to natall the boering savants.