Gone With The Wind Temporally Removed From HBO MAX (Or How To Look Back On Controversial Media)

flygirl said

I would rather "no mark twain" than to see his brilliant work edited. He already wrote prefaces, explaining himself. And the slave, Jim, was always the good guy. Mark Twain is so much more than Tom Sawyer, and Huck Finn. I simply adore him, and I think it would be a travesty for young people of all races to be denied the original writings, along with great discussions about the writings.

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I don’t think there’s any danger of losing his work
And to add, he’s a hero of mine for the danger he put himself in rescuing maxim gorky

I will say that in my 20s as a practicing artist and student of culture, I held art as sacred
I cringe at that idea now
I see no use for encasing art in amber except as an example of cultural gatekeeping
The art has been made, artists are long dead so neither gains anything
It’s just a subtle reminder of who gets to come in the room and where they get to sit
I’m not for that