New Edition of Gone with the Wind to Include Long Essay on White Supremacy

You people think this thing of changing historical works of fiction is just some wokie flight of fancy.

It’s not, actually. Well, it is that, but it is also a part of something much bigger and more important: they are preparing to actively rewrite history by changing historical texts.

Altering historical works is a comfortable way to ease in to altering real history books.

They have been getting a bit of pushback on the edits of old novels, so with this one they are just adding a large introduction saying the book is evil.

The Post Millennial:

Pan Macmillan, the publisher of Margaret Mitchell’s classic 1936 American novel Gone With The Wind, has added a trigger warning in the preface of the book’s most recent publication telling readers that the text is “harmful” and “problematic” because of its “white supremacist” qualities.

The Telegraph reports that the publisher specifically hired a white writer, Philippa Gregory, to pen an essay to accompany the trigger warning and detail the book’s “white supremacist” elements to avoid hiring a black writer and giving them the “emotional labour” of such a task.


Philippa Gregory

Gone With The Wind is set before and during the American Civil War and tracks protagonist Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of a Southern plantation owner, as she navigates the tumult of her times. The story begins with O’Hara living in relative comfort and excess as she considers a variety of men to be her suitors but her lifestyle radically changes through the course of the war.

The book’s publisher now warns readers that they could find the way Mitchell depicted the South as “racist” and “‘hurtful or indeed harmful” and that the reader will encounter “shocking elements.”

The warning reads, “Gone with the Wind is a novel which includes problematic elements including the romanticisation of a shocking era in our history and the horrors of slavery.”

“The novel includes the representation of unacceptable practices, racist and stereotypical depictions and troubling themes, characterisation, language and imagery,” the warning continues.

The publisher notes that the “book remains true to the original in every way and is reflective of the language and period in which it was originally written” and they believe “changing the text to reflect today’s world would undermine the authenticity of the original, so has chosen to leave the text in its entirety.”

“This does not, however, constitute an endorsement of the characterisation, content or language used,” the publisher adds.

After the trigger warning, an essay appears by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl author, to tell the reader that Mitchell wrote her novel as an endorsement of the “Lost Cause” view of the American Confederacy, which is to say that the South was fighting for freedom from the Union under justified reasons.

Gregory said the book, “defends racism” and “glamorises and preaches white supremacy.”

Haha.

These people are hysterical.

But just wait and watch.

This series of attacks on a bunch of old novels no one was even thinking about is part of a broader strategy to rewrite history, and that is a strategy you’re going to see them try to implement relatively soon.

They are already doing it with the race-swapping of historical figures in film.

Eventually, they’re going to use the same logic to teach children that this is what the historical figures actually were.

Media outlets are already claiming that these race replacements in historical dramas on the BBC and Netflix are actually accurate.

They are just going to start teaching kids that everyone in history that mattered was black, and whites were always just an evil nuisance.

But hey – maybe it won’t get that far?

It looks like the empire is about to collapse!