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Will this movie get banned?


Gone with the Wind recently got banned. Will the same fate happen to Wizard of Oz because:

- it has no black people
- it has little people
- the bad guy wears black
- it portrays its gay character as a coward

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ITS POSSIBLE...GRAB THE DVDS AND BLU RAYS UP FOLKS.

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You can be pretty sure that the cancel generation needs scalps (wow, did I say that?) to hang on their belts give them some sort of accomplishment in their pitiful lives.

The WWII generation put men on the moon and won a world war. This generation throws paint on and topples 200 year old statues..

But yes, the Brown Shirts on the left are complaining the The Wizard of OZ is insulting to those with no brains.

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Sorry, ... you got the analogy wrong. Brown shirts are fascists.

Brown shirts are now represented by the right wing reactionaries who preach fear and hate.

The fascist state is upon us, and they cheer it on while America burns and freedom is lost.

Instead of following the wizard, pull back the curtain and expose the real truth.

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Oooh, the old "fascist" bogeyman..

The left uses fascist tactics to destroy history, use the press as a tool, cancel culture, loot and destroy cities, businesses, public property, and shout down anyone with whom they disagree.




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The "left"? Who is that?

Corporate mainstream media is anything but left. They are very capitalist and either Neoliberal or Neoconservative.

The "left" didn't loot and destroy cities. Most of that is outsiders, criminals, and agent provocateurs.

Fascist is what right wing reactionaries that use the police state, media, and surveillance to control the people are. That is what America has become.

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Debate is impossible when one employs their own definitions. I won't be sucked into that..


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Fascism allows only one point of view... that of the government, or more specifically, of the dictator.

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But that is exactly what some leftists in our country want. They don't want anyone to think that transgenderism and homosexuality are wrong and want to have anyone who thinks that, even if they aren't being discriminative about it put in prison the rest of their lives. Which basically means they don't want anyone to read anything outside the Gospels. So everything in the Bible from Romans to Revelation needs to be banned in their eyes. Because they those books say homosexuality and transgenderism are wrong.

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They don't want anyone to think that transgenderism and homosexuality are wrong...


I'm as conservative as most people who identify that way, but there is nothing "wrong" with homosexuality. Being a homosexual is not a lifestyle choice, it's the way they are born. It's a scientific fact. If this weren't true, homosexuality wouldn't be found in every nation or peoples anywhere on the planet, including places where being found out means a death sentence just be suspected of one.

You would be surprised how many conservatives feel the same as I do.

I think transgenderism is a mistake. The fact that the ridiculous suicide rate for transgenders means a huge percentage didn't find the peace they were hoping the surgery would bring. Still, I don't deny anyone who wants to try. But as a conservative, I don't want my tax dollars paying for the reassignment, nor do I want a genetic male to use the same restrooms that my wife, my daughter, or my granddaughters use.

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Frankly I see homosexuality as a mental illness. But I don't judge anyone for it. I feel sorry for people who have it. Also I myself agree that I don't like my tax money going to pay for transgender surgery. Then again I hate my taxpayer money paying for political attack ads.

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Frankly I see homosexuality as a mental illness.


Science says that's not true. Mental illnesses of all kinds come and go, or appear in midlife. Gay people are born that way and they never change. There is not one case of a heterosexual who suddenly became gay or a gay who became heterosexual - and I'm not talking about all those who denied to themselves that they were homosexual and married the opposite gender.

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Tom Robinson wrote The Gay Anthem in the 70s. Then he got married and had kids!

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strnz:
There is not one case of a heterosexual who suddenly became gay

"not one case"? C'mon, for an open-minded person, you HAVE GOT to be more open-minded than that:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160627-i-am-gay-but-i-wasnt-born-this-way

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I try to be open minded Dave, but I simply don't believe it's possible. As I said in my post -

..and I'm not talking about all those who denied to themselves that they were homosexual and married the opposite gender.


I sometimes think about the old days and wonder about the "frigid" women who didn't like sex with their husbands. I honestly believe there were many women who married, had kids, lived a good life, and went to their graves never admitting to themselves they were gay - possibly for religious reasons and I'm sure there were many gay men who married women. Back in the old days, it was just such a social taboo to be gay.

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That is a reach. I guess you want a religious fascist state. We don't need Christian Ayatollahs telling us what to do, how to think, and what to say.

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I said nothing of the sort. I simply said I don't agree with it. Frankly I don't agree with anyone having sex with multiple people either.

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The MSM is far left. BLM and Antifa are far left. Fascists like you are far left. Fascists belong in pow camps!

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My wife's uncle was murdered by the Schutzstaffel in a concentration camp. You are completely ignorant.


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The left uses fascist tactics to destroy history, use the press as a tool, cancel culture, loot and destroy cities, businesses, public property, and shout down anyone with whom they disagree.



And the Hitlerites NEVER did any of that, of course? LOL

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I don't think it's completely fair to call the left "Hitlerites". While many of their beliefs mirror those of Hitler, they haven't taken to the wholesale extermination of their enemies. Yet - hopefully they'll never get the chance.

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fascists are left wingers like antifa and blm

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It wouldn't surprise me

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All valid points. I vote to have it banned and all copies confiscated for subsequent incineration. Put Kamala Harris in charge.

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nope, it's here to stay. nothing egregious.

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Nothing egregious right now, but wait a few years.

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In a few years, the word “egregious” will be cancelled for having more than 3 syllables. Too big for bitty brains.

“Oh! You’re making fun of us ‘cause we are stupid.”

Why, yes. Yes I am.

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For full disclosure, I did fire up my thesaurus for that post.. LOL

EDIT: oh shit, thesaurus is also three syllables. I am a neanderthal (four syllables!)




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A thesaurus and a Neanderthal should never be talked about together. Dinosaurs died out way before cavemen came around.

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This post definitely deserves more recognition.

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I agree and have returned from another layer of the multiverst to talk it up!

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Yeah, you should go and buy up all the copies you can for that day, and then you can sell them for a huge profit.

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- it portrays its gay character as a coward

By that, I assume you mean the Lion?

He was never "coded" to be gay. It just so happens that Bert Lahr's schtik comes off as effeminate -- maybe fittingly for one who's supposed to be afraid of everything.

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