Screening Of 'Gone With the Wind' Cancelled After Complaints Classic Film Is 'Insensitive'

[Aldebaran]

And what should a business do when the public complains?

Ah, so now the complainers are "the public"? Are the racially hyper-sensitive who like to have a problem with everything the new representatives of the public?

I can't possibly be the only one who sees the irony in complainers in a thread complaining about complainers.

You are if you don't recognize the fact that you've been doing it all along.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Ah, so now the complainers are "the public"? Are the racially hyper-sensitive who like to have a problem with everything the new representatives of the public?

Who did you think they were? Robots?

Or are people you don't agree with no longer considered "people"?

You are if you don't recognize the fact that you've been doing it all along.

I am what? I mean, far be it for me to ruin a good "I know you are, but what am I?" argument, but all I really want is to know what it is about capitalism here that has the Right's collective knickers in a twist?

1. a business (in this case, the Orpheum Theater) offers a service ("Gone With the Wind) to the public.
2. A segment of the public makes it known that they do not like this service.
3. Now, does this segment represent a large portion of the public? The business doesn't know, but rather than risk it, decide to provide a different service.
4. The Right ooks and eeks about the "complainers," without ever offering a viable alternative course of action.

I'm just trying to see a solution to the problem -- the Orpheum Theater seemed to have one, but the Right still sees a problem.

 

[Aldebaran]

Who did you think they were? Robots?

Or are people you don't agree with no longer considered "people"?

I would normally say, "Nice try", but it wasn't.
To answer your question, they are individuals with hypersensitivity that do NOT represent the "public" as a whole.

 

[TLK Valentine]

I would normally say, "Nice try", but it wasn't.
To answer your question, they are individuals with hypersensitivity that do NOT represent the "public" as a whole.

Nor did I say they were -- but they represent a segment of the public.. unless you think every single man, woman, and child needs to step forward before anything gets done -- how quaint.

If you bothered to pay attention, you'd see I already addressed this in the part of my post you chose to ignore:

"3. Now, does this segment represent a large portion of the public? The business doesn't know, but rather than risk it, decide to provide a different service."

 

[Aldebaran]

Nor did I say they were -- but they represent a segment of the public.. unless you think every single man, woman, and child needs to step forward before anything gets done -- how quaint.

If you bothered to pay attention, you'd see I already addressed this in the part of my post you chose to ignore:

"3. Now, does this segment represent a large portion of the public? The business doesn't know, but rather than risk it, decide to provide a different service."

Then you believe that a small segment of the public should determine what we should be able to see. Good to know.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Then you believe that a small segment of the public should determine what we should be able to see. Good to know.

I believe that it's up to the business owner to decide what he wants to show. Not sure why that's such a difficult concept.

 

[Aldebaran]

I believe that it's up to the business owner to decide what he wants to show. Not sure why that's such a difficult concept.

It looks like you want to continue focusing on the business owner rather than the "sensitivity" people mentioned in the thread.

 

[TLK Valentine]

It looks like you want to continue focusing on the business owner rather than the "sensitivity" people mentioned in the thread.

Would you be crying about it so much if the business owner had acted differently? Obviously he thought it was more than just "sensitivity."

Since his opinion matters more than yours, why shouldn't I focus on him?

 

[Aldebaran]

Would you be crying about it so much if the business owner had acted differently? Obviously he thought it was more than just "sensitivity."

Crying? I'm laughing (at your posts)

Since his opinion matters more than yours, why shouldn't I focus on him?

You selectively forgot about the main people mentioned in the title--the complaining "sensitives", who I see you don't want to talk about. But that's ok. I understand.

 

[TLK Valentine]

You selectively forgot about the main people mentioned in the title--the complaining "sensitives", who I see you don't want to talk about. But that's ok. I understand.

What's to talk about -- they got thing done. Is that what's sticking in everyone's craw? Success?

 

[Aldebaran]

What's to talk about -- they got thing done. Is that what's sticking in everyone's craw? Success?

Complaining about how their hypersensitivity over a move "gets things done". That, along with violence if complaining doesn't do the trick, and you have the Leftist playbook.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Complaining about how their hypersensitivity over a move "gets things done".

Not really, as this very thread shows -- the left's "crybabies" get results; the right's crybabies get laughed at.

Not exactly a tie, is it?

That, along with violence if complaining doesn't do the trick, and you have the Leftist playbook.

Now, now -- you were so adamant about staying on topic... now you're just looking for something to complain about.

 

[Aldebaran]

Not really, as this very thread shows -- the left's "crybabies" get results; the right's crybabies get laughed at.

Not exactly a tie, is it?

I see you're an admirer of the Left's crybabies who get results:

 

[TLK Valentine]

I see you're an admirer of the Left's crybabies who get results:

All this over a movie? I'm shocked.

 

[Aldebaran]

All this over a movie? I'm shocked.

All that over sensitivity over skin color. Perhaps the theatre owner didn't want that to happen to his business.

 

[TLK Valentine]

All that over sensitivity over skin color.

Reminds you of the good ol days does it?

Perhaps the theatre owner didn't want that to happen to his business.

Perhaps he didn't want his business stomped flat by Godzilla? If you're going to read minds, at least make it entertaining.

 

[Aldebaran]

Reminds you of the good ol days does it?

I wouldn't say the days of Obama were "good".

Perhaps he didn't want his business stomped flat by Godzilla? If you're going to read minds, at least make it entertaining.

No intelligent response to give? Good to know.

 

[TLK Valentine]

I wouldn't say the days of Obama were "good".

There was an America before Obama, you know...

It had white water fountains and colored water fountains...
...white restaurants and colored restaurants...
...white schools and colored schools...

and one day, as you said, "all that over sensitivity over skin color" happened.

No intelligent response to give? Good to know.

What intelligent response is there to give to fear? There were no threats of violence in the OP, not even a mention of the business owner afraid of violence.

The only one afraid of violence is you.

 

[Aldebaran]

There was an America before Obama, you know...

It had white water fountains and colored water fountains...
...white restaurants and colored restaurants...
...white schools and colored schools...

and one day, as you said, "all that over sensitivity over skin color" happened.

What does that have to do with the movie?

What intelligent response is there to give to fear? There were no threats of violence in the OP, not even a mention of the business owner afraid of violence.

The only one afraid of violence is you.

If he wasn't afraid of violence, which people so hypersensitive about skin color have done numerous times lately, then why do you think he didn't show the movie?

 

[TLK Valentine]

What does that have to do with the movie?

Both the original book and the film are products of the attitudes of that very America -- decades before, as you put it, "all the over sensitivity over skin color" happened. And it shows.

In fact, even then, both works were criticized as attempts to whitewash (no pun intended) the unpleasantness of slavery.

I'm a little surprised you didn't know that... but just a little.

If he wasn't afraid of violence, which people so hypersensitive about skin color have done numerous times lately, then why do you think he didn't show the movie?

I think he didn't want bad publicity.

Why is violence the only thing you can think of?