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[quote=Anonymous]wow- Yes teh omniscient narrator (the author) is stating truths about the world- rich people arent like you and me- isn't supposed to be about just those people at that time, it is supposed to be truth about the way the world works.

Are you seriously saying that A 19 year old debutante who's sole purpose in life was to snag a wealthy husband and wasn't allowed out into the sun b.c it would damage her 'complexion' would know net than teh actual peopelwho raised crops how to ...plant and harvest..raise the crops? Also most people who stayed on a plantation after were waiting there for relatives who'd been sold, that isn't even mentioned. GWTW- a book and film that I loved and which is very enjoyable, a masterpiece is probably one of the best pieces of white supremacist propaganda ever produced.  Just b.c something is propaganda doesnt mean it isn't art- in many ways Animal Farm is propaganda but tbh it's not as good as GWTW is at persuading its audience.

The best kind of propaganda convinces its audience, it's insidious. The only reason people get so worked up over GWTW is b/c Americans are so sexist that we cant fathom that a white southern woman did what generations of KKK night riders could not, all the soldiers of the Confederacy could not. The men lost their war, the southern women won the peace, and Margaret Mitchell was more skillful at her craft than Lee was at his. American are just too biased against women and the female sphere to believe that something as innocent as a novel could have that much influence but another woman wrote a different novel that was also propaganda that led to the abolition of slavery 100 years before GWTW.  
 A lot of the art we consume is left wing propaganda (all Bauhaus for instance) , and honestly only the most unsophisticated rube is unaware.  I can even agree with the message but still recognize that it is pushing a certain agenda.  GWTW is pushing a white supremacist, classist agenda.  It sanitizes American cattle slavery and transforms it into an acceptable caricature.  Also the white people of that time didnt really know what it was like to live with such brutality.  So many travelogues of  that time recount the constant brutality and violence that slave owners lived with- they'd lash out and slap a child at a seated dinner, and continue on speaking as if nothing had happened while someone unused to such violence or abuse would be shellshocked. There are scarcely any accounts about the southern united states that dont remark on this casual violence and abuse even from people who believed firmly in slavery and Black inferiority.  A  lot of people were grossed out BECAUSE they were racist and couldn't understand how the southern slave owners could live in such close proximity to non-whites and rape them, have their children nursed by non-whites, have them  cook their meals etc etc. .  In fact that kind of racism was common amongst northerners and southerners pointed it out to them as evidence that slavery/servitude/Jim Crowe  was the natural order and a kindness to Black Americans who otherwise would be sent back to 'Blackest Africa" and heathenry.   
The reason that GWTW has to be called out as a piece of propaganda is b.c of the above racist view was prevalent only a generation ago and its pull is insidious and many Americans are still susceptible to it.  [/quote]

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