Disney won't release "Song Of The South" because of racial content.

~CB

Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
www.baileyzone.net

On 10/14/2020 5:19 PM, Lou Judson wrote:
> Reminds me of the attempts to censor Mark Twain’s novels. “The N-word”was a psrt of the culture…
> Historically corect or censored to honor changing times?
> Conundrum.
> <L>
> Lou Judson
> Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
>> On Oct 14, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Giovanni Punto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I am pretty sure that the subject of the article is relevant to the vast
>> majority of collectors and curators on the list and many may have already
>> seen it. I am conflicted myself, given that the pros and cons presented
>> there both seem valid. I do believe that there is a "good" way to present
>> racist (homophobic, antisemitic, etc.) material, I just am not comfortable
>> that the alternatives presented seem to be to simply excise all of it from
>> its innate context or to segregate it (note the term) and say that, if you
>> look for it, you can find it. The real world can get messy and I don't see
>> the way to completely square the needs of presenting a segment of history
>> with being socially responsible in a fashion that does full justice to both.
>>
>> This is not something that can be "solved" and it is good that societal
>> "norms" have shifted enough that discussion of it has been opened up to the
>> general public beyond our insular confines.
>>
>> My best,
>>
>> Peter Hirsch
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/arts/music/anthology-of-american-folk-music.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage
>>