LA Times Film Critic: Trump Saying He
Likes ‘Gone with the Wind’ Is
a ‘Racist Dog Whistle’
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by
Pam Key
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Posted By: Imright,
2/22/2020 7:53:08 AM
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang said Friday on CNN that President Donald Trump mentioning the movie “Gone With the Wind” at his rally was a “racist dog whistle.”
Chang said, “It’s kind of unfortunate, I think, that we have a president whose entire presidency is founded on xenophobia and of course his comments are not surprising coming from someone who likes to dehumanize people of other cultures and people of color. So none of that’s surprising.”He continued, “Well, that whole thing, “Gone with the Wind” and “Sunset Boulevard,” that all smacks of a dog whistle hearkening back to an earlier era
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/22/2020 8:08:13 AM (No. 326051)
At this rate praising a Biblical film will mean you approve of introducing crucifixion.
36 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
tsquare 2/22/2020 8:08:15 AM (No. 326052)
Time to call BS on this chicken bone reading voodoo poo poo.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pinger 2/22/2020 8:10:50 AM (No. 326055)
No worries, then. If it's a dog whistle-no one can hear it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Petronius 2/22/2020 8:11:48 AM (No. 326058)
Justin Chang is a fool.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/22/2020 8:14:42 AM (No. 326064)
What would someone named Chang know about American cinema about our War Between the States and Reconstruction?
I'll listen his opinion on Bruce Lee's, Run-Run Shaw films.
(Yes, I'm being very "culturalist")
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/22/2020 8:19:51 AM (No. 326078)
Sometimes you need to call a racist dog.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/22/2020 8:22:02 AM (No. 326085)
Piercing huh, biatch?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/22/2020 8:31:34 AM (No. 326096)
Wish he would have said Ben Hur. Would have loved to see their heads explode. I have read Gone With the Wind a dozen times if not more. I can't even guess how many times I have seen the movie. I do not approve of slavery, I do not want to live like it is 1860, I live in a neighborhood that includes black families and have never wanted to hunt them down. These dems need to get a hobby or learn how to spend their time more wisely. Stop occuping their minds with nonsense. Since farming is so easy maybe they can start a community garden. Spring is coming.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rather Read 2/22/2020 8:32:50 AM (No. 326101)
I'm glad I have my DVD copy. If they had their way, the wokesters would burn every copy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mobyclik 2/22/2020 8:37:49 AM (No. 326105)
Without their ''ism's'' and ''phobia's'' the lefty loons have absolutely NOTHING worthwhile to say. Is crap like this supposed to sway Republicans, Independents or fence-sitting Democrats to vote for one of the crazies? They're just preaching to their nut-job choir.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/22/2020 8:44:54 AM (No. 326114)
If DJT had said Driving Miss Daisy, would chang have said DJT was racist, dog whistle and all?
These little phrases are invented - point in time, where I stand is where I sit, at the end of the day, racist dog whistle - and I scoff at them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 2/22/2020 8:49:24 AM (No. 326123)
And Chang's opinion is dog...well, you know.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
msjena 2/22/2020 8:57:50 AM (No. 326136)
Ridiculous. But not surprising. If the left had their way, Gone With the Wind would be banned. So would Huckleberry Finn and anything by Ayn Rand.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 2/22/2020 9:09:00 AM (No. 326144)
Quotation marks editor needed. An eighth grader could fix it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TexasRose 2/22/2020 9:21:17 AM (No. 326165)
Wish I could read minds and know motives as well as the Leftists do!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/22/2020 9:22:53 AM (No. 326168)
If you can hear the whistle, YOU'RE the dog.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/22/2020 9:23:19 AM (No. 326170)
Everything is a "dog whistle" or a "micro-aggression" to these prissy, basement dwelling, politically correct snowflakes, so we need to stop giving them any attention what so ever.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cThree 2/22/2020 9:26:19 AM (No. 326172)
Anyone who likes GWTW is racist. I get that. [/sarcasm]
Now, let's get more woke, Justin Chang. One or the other of your names evinces cultural appropriation! You should be ashamed of your family. Go spit on their doormat! If they object, those thoughtless wretches, let them know that frankly, you don't give a damn.
[/sarcasm, this time for sure....]
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/22/2020 9:27:08 AM (No. 326173)
When are we going to call "BS" on this kind of thing?
Without invoking the 'dog whistle' of RACISM, we would not have had the 2nd term of Nobama, and they demonrat socialists wouldn't have much to talk about.
Instead of trying to TEAR DOWN society, why not help people to improve their lot in life in the future? Our system allows people to thrive rather than be enslaved by dependent upon government.
The media is doing its best to try to force its image upon us in movies, television shows, selective and SLANTED rumor-filled propaganda tying to shake down rather than to enlighten and uplift people, and people are seeing it for the manipulation it is.
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The next generation will be presented a distorted version of history, a limited selection of books and movies and a disdain for their nation. We should all be encouraging any home schooling parents that we know.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 2/22/2020 9:39:22 AM (No. 326194)
Funny, as soon as I heard that I knew somebody would go there.
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I always find it interesting how these supposed champions of racial equality can hear these "racist dog whistles" when, who they would claim IS a racist, cannot. We might want to start pointing out what they are saying about themselves when they claim to hear a "racist dog whistle" in what someone else says. Just like when Rep. Tlaib admitted that all blacks look the same to her.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
D S Craft 2/22/2020 10:08:12 AM (No. 326238)
These 'people' are beclowning themselves. What President Trump has been able to do in the USA goes way beyond politics. He has forced the left to drop the mask of benevolence they've worn for the past century in order to expose the hideous reality underneath. While I have great affection for Ronald Reagan, his accomplishments pale in comparison to what Trump has already done. The hard part is going to be cementing his gains after he leaves office.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 2/22/2020 10:16:39 AM (No. 326257)
Gone with the Wind is my favorite movie. It has good acting, superb actor and actresses, excellent costumes, drama, hate, love, you name it. It paints the struggles of an era and the consequences. Tell me since then, who could top a Rhett Butler or Scarlet O'Hara - nobody.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Krause 2/22/2020 10:18:44 AM (No. 326260)
That's about as good as all the other proof they have. Don't these people realize how stupid they sound?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/22/2020 10:20:35 AM (No. 326264)
Justin Chang and his L.A. Times are both like a fart in a fan factory "Gone With the Wind".
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/22/2020 10:49:50 AM (No. 326298)
Anything Trump says at all is a CNN dog whistle.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
hershey 2/22/2020 11:08:08 AM (No. 326331)
It's unfortunate there are film critics who don't know jack squat and keep giving good reviews to trash films...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/22/2020 11:21:25 AM (No. 326342)
I have seen both and Parasite was no 'Gone with the Wind." That is the point.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
judy 2/22/2020 11:43:26 AM (No. 326370)
Keep it up newspapers etc & Trumps approval ratings will be 100%
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
grampus 2/22/2020 12:32:51 PM (No. 326437)
"Dog whistle." How clever....and terribly overused. I like much better the "Mileormore Bird whistle." The Milormore bird is a small bird reputed to begin flying in huge circles, ever diminishing, until it flies up its own butt. At that precise point, it whistles through its butt and you can hear it for a mileormore. Maybe the racist dog whistle should be renamed the racist mileormore whistle.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Historybuff 2/22/2020 12:53:14 PM (No. 326458)
Racist? The film that Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for? Give it back then!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 2/22/2020 12:53:19 PM (No. 326459)
I really hope they keep this nonsense up. If loving GWTW means we are all racists, then apparently we cannot love Tara's Theme, Scarlet and Rhett, and Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh. The Academy Awards committee was racist then, as I think GWTW won the Best Picture that year [???] Will American Movie Classics no longer be able the show GWTW during the build up the Academy Awards Week? Oh, the tension until next February.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
leonardo 2/22/2020 1:00:08 PM (No. 326471)
Film critic Justin WHO? These days it takes a real DOG to "uncover" a whistle designed to attract dogs. But I'd guess that every single Democrat candidate can "perceive" THAT in the same way that they perceived so-called Russian Collusion.
Delivering pizza is a much more appropriate career direction for Justin than film review.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kono 2/22/2020 1:10:33 PM (No. 326485)
Justin Chang?
When did he stop beating his boyfriend?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 2/22/2020 1:50:04 PM (No. 326546)
Is there anything lower than a LAT film critic?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 2/22/2020 3:05:56 PM (No. 326642)
Could not possibly top #1!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/22/2020 4:29:48 PM (No. 326697)
#34,...and the Mammy character was the smartest person at Tara.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
XCenturion 2/22/2020 5:58:48 PM (No. 326772)
That's funny Justin, when I think of delusional liberal hacks like you, and others suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), I think of the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/22/2020 7:47:35 PM (No. 326854)
And who ever heard of Justin Chang? Bye.
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