HBO removes Gone with the wind.

[UtilitarianDeist]

Why?

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I would certainly say that most people would think that that was a problem if applied to real life. But how is it a problem applied to a fictional story that never happened in reality?

The message in the story was that blacks didn't really have it that bad during the slavery era. This is part of an effort to show that the Antebellum South was the victim in the Civil War.

I'm going to just keep repeating that you're talking about a piece of fiction until you explain to me why a fictional character saying that something is true in a fictional reality has any impact on morality in our actual real reality.

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I'm curious why it was removed temporarily, though.

Because certain depictions of black people and the history of the confederacy  required context

Again, I'd understand if 'Gone with the wind' is a true story but it isn't.

If a fictional character makes a truth claim in a fictional universe then why does that matter?

To me this is as absurd as banning Star Wars because Darth Vader wanted to wipe out whole planets with the death star which not only endorses Hitler's genocide of 6 million jews but endorses the act of a genocide far more extreme than even Hitler's genocide.