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This is really worth a watch. Especially when Professor and American Historian Sarah Churchwell really gets into it in the middle and beyond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkytV4aJy0
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I do understand the point now well racism is in other countries not only in USA today too. You only need to have different surname in foreign country and yes you can be what ever race, religion and color. Have to remember that it is Opensim where people can create what they want and I am sure that region owner is not making it for hyping of racism or slavery.. Gone with the wind is about one sour relationship which is set at that era and area not a history book. But here is the other side of the book https://midatlanticmusings.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/theres... ..
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If you go to the region you will see Black slave NPCs cleaning, one on hands and knees while the white character NPCs are greeters welcoming you to Tara. The relationship of Scarlett and Rhett is ridiculous, abusive and dysfunctional and I don't think she's an Irish heroine, I think she's a white supremacist.
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While there are things you can compare between Alice in Wonderland and Star Wars to the real world, they are far enough removed from our reality that it's very much a fiction. Margaret Mitchell intentionally set her story in the Civil War and on the confederate side. She could have written about the union; which was fighting against slavery, but she didn't. Rhett Butler was what you might consider a conscientious objector until at the last call he joined the battle...again on the confederate side. Ashley was a confederate soldier throughout. Scarlett O'Hara's entire narrative was determined by white supremacy and white privelege. The Red Queen is evil yes, but also pretty intentionally ridiculous. We are not meant to identify with her or believe her as an entity. GWTW is a social commentary on the real world in that era.
Edited to add - there are also some critical race theory breakdowns of Alice in Wonderland out there because it has a lot of colonial narratives and racist stereotypes too.
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Edited to add - there are also some critical race theory breakdowns of Alice in Wonderland out there because it has a lot of colonial narratives and racist stereotypes too.
Works of fiction, while not history books themselves can influence how people view a place's history and culture going forward. Gone with the Wind is one of those books and it's influence has been a damaging one for ongoing racism in America. It's not just pretty dresses and failed romances. It's white supremacy put on a pedestal. It's a confederate flag being flown at the white house during the insurection and it's white privileged people mourning the loss of "archtecture and a wedding venue" when the Nottaway plantation was burned down. A plantation by the way where every building was build by slaves and in every building they built they were beaten, raped and killed. The real history of plantations and slavery is so awful and Margaret Mitchell wrote this in a very skewed way to water that down. And then it was watered down in the film again to be more palatable. Do you know Margaret Mitchell fought the filmakers to try and get them to use the n word in the film? Because it's in the book over 100 times.
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As an African American whose ancestors lived the realities of both the book and movie on which this region is based, I am INCREDIBLY offended that it exists, that OSGrid would host it and that OpenSimWorld would allow it to be advertised.
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Those who love GTTW need to do some critical thinking on what it is they actually love about it. I don't think Gone with the Wind should be erased from history. It can be used as a tool to learn about racism in film and literature. But I don't think it should be a region offered for fun and leisure either. It could be listed as education and presented in an honest light.
Margaret Mitchell was a racist who wrote a "romance story" in 1930. But it wasn't just a romance. It was set against an inaccurate depiction of slavery and Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler were in fact white supremacists. The real people forced into the life of slavery were not content and loyal as depicted in the film, it was dehumanizing torture and continual and often violent racism for generations of the lives of Black families. And that directly impacts the ongoing racism in our world. Slavery ended and segregation began. Hattie McDaniel won best supporting actress for her portayal of "Mammy" and in doing so became the first African American to receive an Academy Award. However, while her white co-stars sat at a table near the main stage, she was only allowed to sit at the back of the room
"Anyone who’s even heard of Gone with the Wind knows that its depiction of slavery is inaccurate, and its portraits of Black characters are racist. But the scale of its distortions of American history is vastly underestimated, even by people broadly familiar with that history. That mythmaking remains so serviceable, so gratifying, to globally popular ideas about America that it continues to shape the world’s understanding of United States history to a gratuitous degree." Sarah Churchwell - American Historian
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Margaret Mitchell was a racist who wrote a "romance story" in 1930. But it wasn't just a romance. It was set against an inaccurate depiction of slavery and Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler were in fact white supremacists. The real people forced into the life of slavery were not content and loyal as depicted in the film, it was dehumanizing torture and continual and often violent racism for generations of the lives of Black families. And that directly impacts the ongoing racism in our world. Slavery ended and segregation began. Hattie McDaniel won best supporting actress for her portayal of "Mammy" and in doing so became the first African American to receive an Academy Award. However, while her white co-stars sat at a table near the main stage, she was only allowed to sit at the back of the room
"Anyone who’s even heard of Gone with the Wind knows that its depiction of slavery is inaccurate, and its portraits of Black characters are racist. But the scale of its distortions of American history is vastly underestimated, even by people broadly familiar with that history. That mythmaking remains so serviceable, so gratifying, to globally popular ideas about America that it continues to shape the world’s understanding of United States history to a gratuitous degree." Sarah Churchwell - American Historian
