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‘Gone With the Wind’ Books Now Carry ‘Trigger Warning’

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“Retaining the original text does not ‘constitute an endorsement’ of the book.”

First, HBO Max did this with the movie.

Two weeks after removing “Gone with the Wind” from its platform, HBO Max has brought back the Civil War film. But this time, there’s a disclaimer acknowledging that “The film’s treatment of this world through a lens of nostalgia denies the horrors of slavery, as well as its legacies of racial inequality.”

The disclaimer has two video parts, according to Variety. In one clip, African American cinema expert and Turner Classic Movies host Jacqueline Stewart contextualizes the movie. In another, viewers can watch a panel discussion, “The complicated legacy of ‘Gone with the Wind,’” from a 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Then a ‘historical context label’ was slapped on it.

 

 

 

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