HBO removes Gone with the wind.

[Rev. Rye]

It's not from a different era. It's a movie from this era that very intentionally catered to the lesser elements of this era. Rev explained this at length.

I think it would be a stretch to call something from 1939 “from this era,” Khem. Remember that the... dodgy attitudes that are understandably causing such a fuss in 2020 were actually mainstream at the time. And as pervasive as these attitudes were, remember that I also argued that even if a filmmaker wanted to challenge that, there were also market considerations that kind of had the Hollywood system by the balls until the mid-Sixties. You want to challenge the Lost Cause of the South in your movie? Say goodbye to all that Dixie money. Treat the black servants too well in your movie? Memphis will officially ban it. Want to make a movie about the horrors of lynching? You might just get it made, but only if you agree to give that black protagonist role to Spencer Tracy and get rid of any suggestion that maybe lynching is unjustified even if the guy actually did it. Maybe if you play ball, they might just let you put a black guy in, even if it is just as a clerk at a deli. And for the record, that’s what happened with Fritz Lang’s 1936 American debut Fury.

To be fair, a lot of the issues I spoke about then are still in force today, hence why I brought up the whitewashing in Doctor Strange, but if Kelly Marie Tran can get bullied off social media by racists and have her role reduced to bugger-all in The Rise of Skywalker today, imagine how much worse it would have been and how much more hopeless it would have seemed in an era where white supremacy was EXPLICITLY ENSHRINED IN LAW, when anti-lynching legislation had to be blocked because Southern politicians whose farmers who were so crucial to the New Deal would Have gone full McConnell on literally everything else He wanted to do, And in which a few years later, people who looked quite a bit like Tran would be sent to concentration camps. And, yes, I know she’s Vietnamese and not Japanese, but you know what they say about white people and differentiating between Asians.