HBO's 'Confederate' Salt - Game of Thrones showrunners continue to mine more salt

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What sucks is youre going to have actual racist watching the show and praising it. This will only renforce the idea to these faggots that racism is creepin into media and its racist unless the nazis,dixies,cursades, and right wingers are the bad guys
 
Oh man, I was wondering what all the fuss was when I saw Ragen Chastain's post (I'm "friends" with her on FB) on Facebook bitching about this.
 
I hope it's a huge success just for the salt.

I'd also like to see a message sent that SJW bullshit makes no money but pissing them off does.
 
I'm just confused why anyone thinks this isn't going to be a 100% left-wing retelling where the Evil Southerners get defeated by The Righteous and Liberally Educated Northerners.
 
Someone from my facebook feed spread this nonsense around: https://wakingwriter.com/2017/07/20...hing-hbos-confederacy-and-neither-should-you/

It's most of the same arguments everyone else is bringing up. I can't understand why people say this is going to be a white supremacist fantasy. It's by the people who wrote the tv adaptation to Game of Thrones, which is one of the absolute grimmest things to ever air. You think that'd clue them in for where Confederate is heading, but of course not.
 
The world "needs" this movie about as much as MovieBob needs another 3/4 lb Triple from Wendy's.

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Why anyone believe a victorious south would be a white pride paradise is beyond me.
Without the north and France and Britain replacing southern cotton with ones from Egypt, they would be lucky their economy wouldn't just collapse immediately after a victory (not being annexed, since they never had a chance to take northern territory due to logistical and inferior numbers).

They would have Zimbabwe levels of development by now.
 
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Why anyone believe a victorious south would be a white pride paradise is beyond me.
Without the north and France and Britain replacing southern cotton with ones from Egypt, they would be lucky their economy wouldn't just collapse immediately after a victory (not being annexed, since they never had a chance to take northern territory due to logistical and inferior numbers).

They would have Zimbabwe levels of development by now.
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Not to mention slavery is ultimately unsustainable economically. It's a system that requires more and more resources over time because slavery was used to have a cheap labor force that could do agriculture for a pittance, even though industrial advances have made that more and more impracticable in the long run.

The South's economic base was tottery by the time of the Civil War, being over reliant on cash crops like cotton, and even that wound up not being half as valuable as they thought because their target markets were able to build up a surplus and find other supplies, and given how trade continued to make alternative markets easier and easier to acquire combined with modern industry able to do the work of slaves even more efficiently for even less cost by modern day, and slavery should have imploded anyway as an economic model sooner or later, the Civil War just forced the ending of it a lot sooner.
 
GethN7 said:
Not to mention slavery is ultimately unsustainable economically. It's a system that requires more and more resources over time because slavery was used to have a cheap labor force that could do agriculture for a pittance, even though industrial advances have made that more and more impracticable in the long run.
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A lot of people fail to consider the additional "inefficiency" that humans subjected to slavery are, inevitably, incredibly angry about this, and without applying an incredible amount of force, they will rise up and fucking kill every single person enslaving them.

This happened numerous times during slavery in the South. This problem wouldn't have gone away no matter what way the Civil War went.
 
I wonder if it's going to make the whole slavery thing front and center, and ignore everything else. Like with the Passion of the Christ except with a black guy instead of jesus for like 20 episodes straight.
 
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Didn't even air yet and people are bitching about it. What happened to just not watching shows you don't like?
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SJWs happened. Since then, it's been like living in a dystopian future where everyone is bitching about something, and everyone is constantly yelling "girl dicks", "Black Lives Matters", or "Jesus was an immigrant" every 30 seconds.
 
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I was pondering something on my way to Subway this evening that was very similar to how these people are reacting to the announcement of this show.
There are people out there that seriously believe merely depicting something they don't like is an endorsement of it.
 
Feline Darkmage said:
I was pondering something on my way to Subway this evening that was very similar to how these people are reacting to the announcement of this show.
There are people out there that seriously believe merely depicting something they don't like is an endorsement of it.
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Don't tell them about Schindler's List, or they'd really go bonkers.
 
As a civil war buff, I'm just a tad salty that it's yet another Civil War AU where the CSA managed to secede and it's the mordern era and slavery still exists.

When the evidence was that the Confederate Congress was probably going to offer manumission in exchange for military service.
 
Feline Darkmage said:
I was pondering something on my way to Subway this evening that was very similar to how these people are reacting to the announcement of this show.
There are people out there that seriously believe merely depicting something they don't like is an endorsement of it.
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I don't get it either, in the race to be more triggered than their fellow SJWs, they must have to distill things down to the point that even mentioning them, no matter how negatively, is oppression.

The mere mention has to be problematic, since waiting around to actually see the show and judge it means you'll be laps behind in the oppression race by then....

Like, it doesn't matter if the DA is prosecuting him for it, a man accused of rape and ALLOWED TO LIVE IS RAPE CULTURE! REEEEE!!!
 
I had someone unfollow me in a huff on Twitter because I said that while I wished they'd pick another subject since I think this particular alt-history is kind of overdone, that I thought it would be absolutely fine if Kevin Wilmott's Confederate States of America mockumentary was any indication.
 
Rotogravure said:
I had someone unfollow me in a huff on Twitter because I said that while I wished they'd pick another subject since I think this particular alt-history is kind of overdone, that I thought it would be absolutely fine if Kevin Wilmott's Confederate States of America mockumentary was any indication.
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I was actually thinking of Confederate States of America when I read the first post. Like others have said, this type of AU fiction is one of the most common, second only to "What if X happened in WW II." To be fair I can see the appeal from a creative standpoint, because it is interesting, but it is definitely overdone.

What's always interesting about salt regarding these types of stories is just how stupid the people protesting it are. More often than not, the setting is used as a backdrop to create an evil oppressive group for the main characters in the resistance group to overthrow, usually accompanied by someone on the inside who learns throughout the story how they're on the wrong side of history or whatever. It's never the creator trying to glorify Nazi's/Confederates/whatever, because if they did that, there would be no TV show because where's the conflict? The people getting salty should be excited, because this is the type of shit they eat up, watching a bunch of scrappy NEET underdogs sticking it to the nazi's or white supremacists or whatever, just like they pretend they're doing in real life by resisting Trump or making a snarky tumblr post.
 
Agreed.

The "Nazis win WW2, but heroic resistance still determined to take them down" is a trope because very few people have a problem with declaring Nazis worthy of a bullet.... it's one of the few remaining groups you can cast as villains in your work and not get much hate mail when they get shot/stabbed/immolated.
 
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