Word: racists
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...invented the “Death Tax” to replace the Estate Tax (picture: grim reaper as tax collector), the “personal investment account” to replace privatized Social Security (picture the empowered investor-citizen, chest out, cape flapping in the wind) and the horribly racist stereotype of the “welfare queen” to destroy governmental social programs (picture single mother proudly collecting her check and watching...
...missives populating the subject column for Diary’s Internet Movie Database message board bear evidence of the controversy surrounding the film: “Roger Ebert is the BIGGEST RACIST ever!,” “What’s the deal with all the RACE issues people?!,” and “WHY ARE YA’LL HATING ON US??” are all open threads...
...scenes set here are unnerving—wealthy students discuss summer resorts as servants flitter about and septuagenarians crack racist jokes over schnapps...
Alternately celebrated as a filmic masterpiece and reviled as racist propaganda, The Birth of a Nation has forged its place in America’s cinematic, social, and political history. Originally titled The Clansman, after Reverend Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 play on which the film is based, the film’s adopted title does little to hide its true subject, a three-hour epic of the Civil War, post-war Southern Reconstruction, and development of the Ku Klux Klan...
Though Griffith insisted that his was “not a racist film,” objectors have pointed to his upbringing in rural Kentucky as the son of a Confederate veteran as indication of a questionable agenda...