(June 11, 2020 at 6:48 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 11, 2020 at 6:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I'm not saying it's wrong to watch these kind of movies but imagine if you were the owner of TV station and you decide to air "Birth of a Nation" while people are rioting outside your office against racism - would you not be a bit concerned for your safety?
Both would be cases of hiding from reality. It's a fact that "Birth of a Nation" exists. To deny that is to sanitize history. We studied this film when I was at Purdue.
It's easy for us to discuss what HBO should do because we don't have any stakes in it, but they don't know how people will react when they're switching channels between protests against racism and a 4 hour movie about the age of racism. Sure, some people can watch Birth of Nation right now but a lot of people would flip because there's crisis going on.
Or if US was in the war with France, then you wouldn't see any French movies on TV because people would be angry at French people, but once when the war ends there wouldn't be any problems. That's why TV stations rather avoid putting movies about racism right now.
Or like, when the war with Germany was going on, people changed the name of 'German Measles' into 'Freedom Measles' because people couldn't even bare saying the word 'German'.
Or do you remember what was in TV after 9/11? On most channels not much of anything but news.
So it's not exactly business as usual.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"