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HBO’s Confederate Will Be a Dumpster Fire. Here Are 3 Shows They Should’ve Made
Confederate, the new show by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, sounds like hot trash. Smelly, putrid, straight-from-the-piss-drenched-dumpsters-of-1980s-Times Square trash. While the concept isn’t finalized, Confederate will more or less be an alternative history in which the South won the Civil War (the first or the second; there are varying reports), slavery…
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Apparently, HBO Programming Chief Casey Bloys Is an American Hero for Making That Racist Show
I haven’t studied my black-history textbook lately, but I think the lineage of civil rights heroes goes from Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X to HBO Programming President Casey Bloys. Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Wednesday, Bloys said that the criticism surrounding HBO’s upcoming show Confederate—which imagines an alternate…
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Game of Thrones Creator on Confederate Series: We Might Mess Up, but We Haven’t Yet
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are responding to the backlash concerning their new HBO series, Confederate. The alt-history series, which is built around the fictional premise of the Confederacy having won the war and slavery still existing, was met with criticism after HBO announced the show Wednesday. Benioff, Weiss, and producers…
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Of Course HBO Greenlit "Confederate" Because White Guys Get Funding For Every Idea (Even Bad Ones)
Confederate — the upcoming HBO series from Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss that rewrites history to depict an America where the Confederate states successfully seceded — might actually end up being a good show. I don’t have much faith that it actually will be. This series is a re-imagining of…
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HBO, Game of Thrones Creators Come Up With a Series That’s a White Nationalist’s Wet Dream
In today’s “Who asked for this?” news, Game of Thrones creators have a new show coming to HBO called Confederate. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ show will give an alternative spin to history, and show what the world would be like if the Confederacy won the war. Basically, it sounds like every member of…
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Black Tenn. Lawmakers Tricked Into Honoring KKK Leader
Black lawmakers in Tennessee’s House of Representatives were incensed late last week when they learned they had been duped into voting for a resolution honoring the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Nashville Patch and The Tennessean, Rep. Mike Sparks, a Republican in the Tennessee Legislature’s lower chamber, sponsored a bill…
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SC State Rep. Who Defended Confederate Flag After Dylann Roof Killings Beat, Pointed Gun at Wife: Report
Republican South Carolina state Rep. Chris Corley, a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and the Confederate flag, was arrested and charged with domestic violence after reportedly pointing a gun at his wife, according to the Post and Courier. Corley, 36, was arrested Monday after an incident in which he reportedly punched his wife in…
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Vanderbilt University to Pay $1,200,000 to Rename Its Confederate Memorial Hall
Vanderbilt University has agreed to dole out $1.2 million to the United Daughters of the Confederacy to settle a long-running lawsuit and move forward in its bid to rename its Confederate Memorial Hall, WPLN reports. According to the report, the $1.2 million is considered the current value of the original $50,000 donation that the United…