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The black man broke away from the classics in one sentence. Biden promised to pay the black man 14 trillion dollars. The United States seems to be crazy.
On June 8th, john ridley, the screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, published a column in the LA Times, asking HBO to take Gone with the Wind off the shelves. The former accuses the South in the "four classic novels" of the United States and slavery before the romantic civil war.

"This film ignores the fear of slavery, and it seems to be just to consolidate a stereotype that people of color suffer the most."

White slave owners and black slaves live in harmony, and the latter seems to enjoy this atmosphere.

In his view, "Gone with the Wind" is an unreal film that is completely over-beautified.

Beyond the documents, it is the land of the United States that is full of fires.

Before June 8, he was a "noble" white tramp who watched all the property under the overpass turn to ashes in the manic "Freudian agitation".

It was the owner of the black granny who asked in front of the camera, "You fought for equal rights for blacks, why did you smash my shop?" ?

This is "Westminster in America", and St. John's Cathedral is burning.

After June 8th, the proprietress of China was interrupted by mobs to defend decades of hard work.

It was 150 Korean shops that were smashed.

This is a growing riot.

The day after the article was published, HBO responded quickly and forcefully, claiming: "Gone with the Wind is a classic work of that era, but it also depicts the unique racial prejudice of that era, and our society today still bears witness to this prejudice. But these prejudices are wrong at that time and now. "

Then they removed Gone with the Wind, which was released 80 years ago 1940, and all the actors died.

I thought that the Iraqis would go with the wind and the classics would last forever, but it seemed that the skin did not exist and the hair would be attached.

As a pay TV station, HBO's subscribers are almost all elites, and their users overlap with the established voters of the Democratic Party-intellectuals, some elites of the middle class and ethnic minorities.

It is not difficult to understand HBO's quick statement, not to mention that CNN was besieged and smashed before.

So be rational, right?

On the American social platform, when some literary lovers fell into fanaticism because of the removal of Gone with the Wind, onlookers soon found that Freud's "Kuroshio" seemed to be far more than that.

The producer of Friends even wept bitterly and regretted it, because none of the resident stars in the play were black. ...

In addition, there are dramas and even cartoons praising the police.

The film and television works that remove the romantic beautification of slavery and the police belong to the intellectuals with higher voices among the protesters. For the masses at the bottom, it is undoubtedly more participatory and "anti-authoritative" to overthrow the sculpture symbolizing slavery on the street.

Two or three days ago, Columbus's sculpture became the most demolished sculpture in the West. However, these two days, the protesters were obviously not satisfied with overthrowing "Columbus who was just an explorer".

In the United States, protesters overthrew the sculpture of American President Jefferson Davis during the Civil War.

In Britain, protesters first pushed the statue of Edward Kirsten, a slave trader and philanthropist, into the river, and then doodled Churchill, one of the allied leaders in World War II.

I don't know how the Queen of England, who benefited from Churchill, felt at the beginning of her reign. ...

Sometimes, if you live too long, you may really need a strong belief.

In the face of the intensified action of "overthrowing sculptures and tracing history", Trump also voiced: "Washington is also a slave owner. Are you going to tear down his statue? "

If ancient historical figures are completely defined by modern moral standards, then the history of mankind is really long and disgusting.

How many people can you deny just three wives and four concubines?

After HBO took Gone with the Wind off the shelves, people on Twitter began to worry about whether Gone with the Wind would be revised after it was put back on the shelves.

If it is, it has been in blowing in the wind 80 years ago today. What will it be like tomorrow? Will one day, even the fact that Washington is a slave owner be concealed? Or deny the identity of his father?

Nobody knows.

HBO responded to the concerns of public opinion, claiming: "We will emphasize to the audience at the beginning of the film that some viewpoints in the content have their historical background, which is incorrect and the content of the film will not be deleted."

It seems that although HBO decisively withdrew Gone with the Wind after a short article by john ridley, it finally kept the bottom line decent.

But not everyone can do it.

In the name of "bridging the rift", US House Speaker Pelosi was imprisoned for five times at an advanced age. Before his death, he overdosed and used counterfeit money. Freud, suspected of committing a crime, knelt in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

Biden even promised that after being elected president, he would pay 14 trillion dollars to blacks, and each black person could get an average of 350,000 dollars.

Trump's signature on the epidemic allowance check has been severely criticized by American society, but what is Biden's move now?

In the past, public opinion always thought Trump was "out of line", but now it seems that people are too young. ...

But no wonder, after all, America is really crazy now.

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