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Gone With the Wind Has Been Removed From the HBO Max Streaming Platform

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has long been held up as one of the most revered movies in cinema, even though it contains several racist tropes and roles. It also happens to be the , if numbers are adjusted for inflation.

But you can no longer stream the film on the newly-launched platform, at least for now."Gone With the Wind is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society.

These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible," an HBO Max spokesperson told .

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