Hattie McDaniel, the first African American (male-identifying or female-identifying) to be nominated for an Oscar; the first to win (Best Supporting Actress for her role in Gone With the Wind); and the only black woman to win an Oscar until 1991, when Whoopi Goldberg won the Best Supporting Actress award for Ghost, is another victim of cancel culture. HBO Max pulled her award-winning performance from its streaming service recently because...you know, racism.
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Shame on me, I've never seen Gone with the Wind. What's so bad about it? Isn't it at least somewhat historically accurate about how people acted in those days? Even if it isn't, what's the excuse for shaming or censoring it? Don't rappers sing every day about how they want to shoot the president in the face, rape bitches, sell heroin.... and then claim it's artistic expression? Holy wild double standards!
You said it my friend. A double standard indeed.