After opening to widespread acclaim from the media in mid-June, Skyline Drive-In NYC (1 Oak St.) has come under criticism for screening two movies that feature characters in yellow and black face.
The drive-in waterfront theater showed “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which features a white actor playing a character who embodies Asian stereotypes, on June 25. And on July 1, it presented “Trading Places,” a film in which the main character wears black face.
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Omg stop the bullshit ,,everything bothers everyone now ,,,,,, what are we gonna do next ,,,, change the name of White Castles. Get a life
Agreed, utterly sick and tired of this constant nitpicking and public shaming under the guise of a ‘social revolution’. Look back far enough and anything will offend anyone. Once all this ‘offensive culture’ is destroyed, what will be left? Progress?? Yeah right.
As usual with a subject like this in the national news media, the extremes get the ink, ie the right don’t take down confederate traitors who got 600k Americans killed to keep blacks enslaved or the opposite, left wing purists who want to erase anything that is not PC.
Lol do these people have nothing better to do with their lives?
OMG! Get a life you losers! This whole cancellation mentality is getting out of hand!
Nah, let the so-called cancellation mentality go on for a few more months my friend- until we cancel the run of that dangerous reality show imbecile that we have in the White House.
Send Trump back to golfing & watching Fox Fake News 100% of the time instead of just the 95%-99% of the time that he does now.
You have to admit no matter what side you are on, the un intentional humor here is classic.
I heard in order to honor BLM, the company is going to substitute Gone with the Wind (not) for these two films.
Every American has the right to try to persuade businesses to change their policies …people on the left, people on the right, and people in the middle. Money talks. In fact it screams, and curses, and demands.
It’s all part of the process of an ever-changing culture discovering itself.
What was deemed acceptable in the not too distant era of Jim Crow is not acceptable today. Culture changes. Societies change. Laws change. People change. Hopefully for the better. Those that slap a label of “cancel culture” on change – in an effort to halt the forces of change – are doomed to be left behind in a disconnected past. They yell “censorship” while trying to themselves censor others. Go figure!
Of course trying to influence the buying & selling & practices of public businesses is different from censoring the expression of indivdual people, of Americans protected by free speech guarantees. We have had quite enough censorship in the history of this country, ranging from McCarthyism to the censoring of books & expression. We don’t want to go back own that path again, no matter under what righteous banner we march, or whether it is government imposed from on high “for our own good”. To borrow an expression that conservatives spout but all too often ignore in practice: “Let freedom ring!”.
Of course that also means that people like Trump must be allowed to freely tantrum-tweet & rant about things like the need to “save” the statues of racist confederate traitors. Let all people, especially Trump, show us who they really are, for all to see. The spotlight of sunshine will disinfect the White House in due time.
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-cancel-culture.html