THE OL' FISH-EYE: THE REAL LEFT COAST

Come to think of it, Mammy is the only
sympathetic person of the bunch.

Antifa's influence has shifted into the movie world. The Orpheum Theater in Memphis has cancelled the running of Gone with the Wind, originally scheduled as part of its summer classics program, due to it being "insensitive".

Frankly, I think it would be better to cancel it because it's not that good. No other "classic" American movie so peppered with unlikable characters. Scarlett O'Hara is a slut, her father's a drunk, and she's in love with the spineless Ashley Wilkes, whose wife, Melanie, is too sugary sweet to be true. Even Rhett Butler, the hero, is a war profiteer, a Haliburton with big ears.

But insensitive? It's almost 80 years old, for God's sakes. Of course it glosses over slavery -- but who the hell goes to David Selznick movies for history? You might as well watch his other movies, Meet the Baron as a guide to girls' colleges, or Duel in the Sun as a serious treatise on Native Americans. It's Hollywood, people! To be precise, 1939 Hollywood portraying 1865 Atlanta. Oh yeah, you're going to get some real historical investigation there.

The Orpheum's move is nothing new. Two years ago, former New York Post critic Lou Lumenick suggested that Gone with the Wind be run only in museums where it could presumably be put "in context".

I'll give you context: it's 80 years old, remember?! Yet, Lumenick is the same guy who saw fit to help bring The Iron Petticoat back into circulation, a movie that nobody, even co-stars Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn, ever wanted to see again. What the hell was the context for that?

But now that Gone with the Wind is starting to live up to its name, get ready for other movie legends to disappear into culture's permanent Hall of Shame.

The Jack Benny Program: African-American slaving away for the wealthy Zionist.

The Lone Ranger: Magical Native-American helping white invader achieve his imperialist goals.

West Side Story: Stereotypical Latino gangbangers.

Some Like it Hot: Mocking the trans community.

The Wizard of Oz: White race's elimination of people of color.

Marilyn Monroe: Setting impossible standards for women while reinforcing sexual stereotypes.

Laurel & Hardy: Cruel caricature of the mentally challenged.

The Four Marx Brothers: Zionists using every trick in the book -- one in crude disguise to hide his true identity, another stereotyping a lazy Italian conman, the third mocking the orally-challenged, and the fourth who got his job strictly through family connections.