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HBO Maxremoves the filmfrom its platform.
People get angry about censorship and attempts to cleanse our troubled cultural history.
In some ways, this was all an academic exercise.
What about [insert the name of whatever you think would disgust me]?
Yes, even that!
Should you watch it?
Only you’re free to know that.
Should you beableto watch it, even this week?
But as Angelica Bastien has explained inan elegantly argued 2017 essay, its a troubling comparison.
Speaking only for myself, Id rather know everything, have everything, see everything.
HBO Maxs decision to append a warning toGone With the Windis … okay.
ButGone With the Windis perhaps not that interesting a test case.
In this case, the slope is at least worth glancing at before proceeding.
What, for instance, should HBO Max do about 1989s cringe-making Best Picture winnerDriving Miss Daisy?
… What world was that?!
Denouncing it is a way of saying,Were not like that anymore.
RemovingGone With the Windwas one.
Bringing it back with a label may just be another.
