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Should racist movies be banned and removed


from everywhere? I am black and i am highly offended whenever white people make movies that are raciss.

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No. I oppose and detest racism, but I also do not agree with censorship or banning/removing movies.

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Agreed
I watched Birth Of A Nation one time for a college class and I'm
glad I saw it, despite it being absurdly racist

The KKK were the good guys LOL!
I think censorship is a very bad idea in general, smart and reasonable people can pick out nonsense when they see it

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Mayne you gotta ban Birth of the Nation mayne thats so raciss!

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Banning any movie is not the answer. People can decide not to watch the film, but people should have the right to decide for themselves.

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Why are you pretending to be black ?

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My thoughts exactly.

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You nailed it. The intentional bad spelling and poor grammar are more offensive than whatever movie he is protesting.

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Which is exactly why it should be preserved as is.
Birth of a Nation is an honest depiction of the artist vision.
Proof of not only the existence of racism but its prevalence as an accepted cultural norm.

Where as something like Gone With the Wind, is a white washed fantasy of the glorious south. A more insidious kind of racism.

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I still like Gone With The Wind even though it is cringe worthy in places

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I've come across a number of shows/movies that make me cringe. Please don't ask me to list them, but I know them when I see them. Yikes.

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And we've already got one of those.

Edit: An " insane precedent " in case anyone was wondering.

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I'm white and I don't get offended when people talk about things that aren't me.
Should I be upset because they make jokes about rednecks? Cowboys? I can go on and on. Want to talk about black movies that persecute whites? There's a bunch! Should I cry about it?
Do yourself a favor and get over it, cuz if you don't you'll drive yourself crazy just because you can't change human nature.

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No. Next would be sexist movies. Then movies with dwarves and horses. Etc. Banning all evidence of political incorrectness would be a crazy precedent to establish. P.S. I detest racism.

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Allison44
No movies would exist then. Someone would find something wrong with every movie or TV show.

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I think you're post should be banned immediately. Although I found nothing in there to offend me personally, I am offended on behalf of somebody that I have never met and never will meet, that might possibly be offended in some way.

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Precisely.

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The word precisely offends me also.

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🤣🤣👍🏻

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no censorship whatsoever. the movie should be seen in its full context.

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Examples?

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No. They're such good learning tools.

Okay, I grew up in a ultra-liberal part of Califirnia, and had absolutely no understanding of organized racism, until I saw "Gond with the Wind" and its glorification of the KKK. It was the first insight I had into the mind of that sort of person, and it inspired me to read some real history of that era. No, showing racist films doesnt make people racist, sometimes it has the opposite effect.

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Gone with the wind? I think you mean Birth of a Nation.

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No, GWTW. After Scarlett is attacked in the woods, it turns out that her husband of the moment and every man she knows belong to the KKK, and they go out and retaliate against the nearest black innocent civilians, which gets Rhett shot and her current husband killed. The film doesnt use the word "klan", although I believe the book does, but that's what that scene is about. The film just depicts slavery as fun for everyone involved.

So while GWTW doesnt gush over the klan quite as effusively as "TBoaN", it still glorifies it. Dont get me started.

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WORD

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Actually the KKK started as civilian brigades to protect people from blacks.

I'm not kidding. After the civil war, blacks who were former slaves organized themselves as bandits, not only stealing but killing and raping too.

Be aware that I can understand the situation up to some point. I you were a slave, and suddenly you're free but you don't have anything to eat, you're likely to steal, with or without violence. The problem, though, was that rape and murder were much more prevalent than it should have been. African cultures in general doesn't consider human life as something particularly valuable*. That is what caused the KKK to be born.

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*It haven't changed, In the new black South Africa, white farmers were systematically attacked by black groups. Boiling white farmer families became very popular among blacks. The consequence was that more and more farmers started to abandon their lands because of fear. 30 years ago, South Africa produced enough food for themselves and exported a lot of it to other African countries. Right now, it doesn't even produce enough to feed the country.

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I missed that part. I'll watch it again. However FYI MLK sang at the premier of GWTW (that was the Jeopardy final tonight).

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As nuts as it sounds, the kkk didn't start as a bunch of racist assholes. Like so many things, it started with good intentions and was corrupted over time.
Attempts to recruit me have been made several times.
Makes me nauseous.

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"Attempts to recruit me have been made several times."

If that's true, then dude! You need to rethink your entire life!

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I live in in the country in the South. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Stick to things you understand.

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You're okay when non-white people make racist movies?

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Examples?

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Some Japanese and Chinese movies.

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OK, I haven't seen those movies. To the OP's point though, I still wouldn't call for them to be banned or removed. Sometimes you need to be confronted by ugly opinions head-on in order to properly understand and counter them.

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I like Asian movies, and they're not particularly racist. In general whites are portrayed as very neutral characters, neither brilliant or stupid, neither good or bad, without any specific personality, or flaw, or virtue. Aseptic.

There's a late trend in Chinese movies that portrays whites as black guys, but it's very recent and it's mostly political. But I don't think it's racism. It's more about preparing their population for the coming war with US.

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Have you seen Ip Man 4?

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Nope, but I saw the Wolf Warriors ones, which are basically Chinese propaganda. They're like the old WW2 movies from the late 30s and early 40s with Germans being systematically evil. The IP Man 4 seems to be in that trend.

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Examples?

Have you ever seen black movies? There are movies made for the black community, with white males being portrayed systematically as stupid.

And I am not talking about Hollywood movies, with the diverse guys being the good guys and the white males being the villains. In black movies white males are not even villains, they're just secondary clowns. Whites use to be portrayed as retarded, more or less similar to the movies from the 40s that used to represent blacks as retarded, but that happens now.

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By examples I meant specific films. I’ve had two replies and still nothing.

From what I can gather I don’t think I’ve seen the black films you are talking about.

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Check the genre yourself. I watched a couple of movies because I was curious, the same I did with Christian movies. Which ones? I don't fucking remember. And it's not really necessary, black movies are all of them quite similar, the same Christian movies are all of them quite similar.

Do your job, dude. You're in a movie forum. Watch some movies.

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I watch a shitload of movies, seen thousands, and I’m still racking my brain to think of a black one with a white guy stooge. To me it’s odd you would think it important enough to mention but have no examples to back it up, but I’m not here to fight. I’ll get back to you if I see anything that matches what you described.

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Watch something else beyond Hollywood ones.

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Good God man the assumptions! I prefer independent films actually, my preference is local cinema.

But yes, as I said, I’ll keep an eye out for those black films.

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"Independent" films have become less and less independent, unless you're talking about very low budget ones. But I guess you're talking about the usual American indie movies. Right now, those are inside the system, they're just another side of Hollywood.

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I'm just responding to the fact that he said this: "I am black and i am highly offended whenever white people make movies that are raciss."

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