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"content": "<p>In an ironic twist D. W. Griffith followed up his pro-KKK film *The Birth of a Nation* (1915) with *Intolerance* (1916) which was surprisingly not anti-tolerance. I imagine that Griffith saw formerly enslaved black people as being intolerant of their benevolent masters.</p><p>I've seen neither film. Nor have I seen *Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl* (1919, for some reason usually referred to as simply *Broken Blossoms*) based on the short story *The Chink and the Child*. The racial politics of that film were apparently fine **for its time** but awful by any objective standard.</p><p>I wouldn't rule out watching Griffith's films but I don't envision a scenario in which I could watch a pro-KKK film with an "open mind" and enjoying it for aesthetic or technical reasons.</p><p><a href=\"https://social.linux.pizza/tags/racism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.linux.pizza/tags/films\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>films</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.linux.pizza/tags/kkk\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>kkk</span></a></p>",
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