Current Events > Modern Hollywood would remove racism from To Kill A Mockingbird

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And just focus on the wholesome lives of the Finch family where they never encountered any racism or wrongdoing whatsoever, and no one got hurt emotionally or physically.

Because we cant show racism to a modern audience, not even to highlight that racism existed and how it effected people negatively as an example of why not to be racist. Everything has to be family friendly.


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What are you basing this on? You're imagining something, convincing yourself it exists, then getting mad about it.

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I thought today was "Hollywood pretends racism exists more than it does" day. Now we're pretending Hollywood doesn't show racism?

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But there are moviesade today that have racism in them. I think, if anything, it would focus more on the racism and how bad it was, and certain types would complain how Hollywood is "trying to divide us" and "shoving racism down our throats."

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Bass_X0 posted...

And just focus on the wholesome lives of the Finch family where they never encountered any racism or wrongdoing whatsoever, and no one got hurt emotionally or physically.

Because we cant show racism to a modern audience, not even to highlight that racism existed and how it effected people negatively as an example of why not to be racist. Everything has to be family friendly.

I don't think you've been watching TV or movies this last year

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No. This is way off base.

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This is a bad topic. Who/what is TC even mad at?

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TKAM was the 2nd shittiest book i ever read in highschool. We read 9. 2 per year, 1 american contemporary and 1 shakespeare. We had an extra american in 4th year. TKAM was the 2nd worst, after only Stone Angel.

Power rankings of highschool books

1. Great Gatsby
2. Poisonwood Bible
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Macbeth
5. Midsommer Night's Dream
6. Romeo & Juliet
7. Animal Farm
8. King Lear
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. The Stone Angel

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it good to be woke. glad Hollywood is protecting us.

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And put titties and drugs in it

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Naysaspace posted...

TKAM was the 2nd shittiest book i ever read in highschool. We read 9. 2 per year, 1 american contemporary and 1 shakespeare. We had an extra american in 4th year. TKAM was the 2nd worst, after only Stone Angel.

Power rankings of highschool books

1. Great Gatsby
2. Poisonwood Bible
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Macbeth
5. Midsommer Night's Dream
6. Romeo & Juliet
7. Animal Farm
8. King Lear
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. The Stone Angel

The favorite novel I have had my students read was World War Z. Works into the curriculum really well for verbal history and spoken word stuff.

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It always comes down to who is making the movie.

Following recent trends, I would expect the police to be pointedly and invariably bigoted and for white actors to be prohibited from using that word even as they play fervent bigots in a storied indictment of racism.

Deeply overrated movie imo. But at least it ain't Driving Miss Daisy or The Green Room.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

The favorite novel I have had my students read was World War Z. Works into the curriculum really well for verbal history and spoken word stuff.

I wish we had cool shit like that back in my day

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indica posted...

I don't think you've been watching TV or movies this last year

Oh, I was just making an observation of how historical racism from decades old shows and movies has to be removed. At best there is a new warning saying how such practices are wrong then and are wrong now. At worst, those old productions are butchered beyond recognition or completely cancelled.

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Bass_X0 posted...

Oh, I was just making an observation of how historical racism from decades old shows and movies has to be removed. At best there is a new warning saying how such practices are wrong then and are wrong now. At worst, those old productions are butchered beyond recognition or completely cancelled.

So now you're complaining about racist works, not works that portray racism as bad.

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Bass_X0 posted...

Oh, I was just making an observation of how historical racism from decades old shows and movies has to be removed. At best there is a new warning saying how such practices are wrong then and are wrong now. At worst, those old productions are butchered beyond recognition or completely cancelled.

Spoken like someone who spends more time caring about political talking points than actively engaging in modern culture. Therefore giving you a totally off base and out of touch opinion which you were checked on by every subsequent reply.

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Power ranking of grade school books:

1. October Sky
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. And Then There Were None
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. The Giver
6. Animal Farm
7. Walk Two Moons
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. Siddhartha
10. Esperanza Rising
11. Anne Frank's Diary
12. A View From Saturday
13. Julius Caesar
14. Tuck Everlasting
15. Beowulf
16. Into the Wild
17. The Grapes of Wrath

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