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Should movies that show hangman's nooses be outlawed/banned?

Asked by kritiper (25757points) June 27th, 2020

Political correctness run TOTALLY amok.

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ragingloli's avatar

No, but I do think that buying alcohol should require a mental health background check.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

Of course not. We would miss out on some amazing westerns.

ucme's avatar

Stop the world I wanna get off!

Inspired_2write's avatar

No because its there to remind us of past history that included that means of injustice that soon faded out of existence.

By showing, writing about this unjust practice and how it evolved it serves as a warning of people in society that succumb to violent behavior and perpetrate it on at times innocent victims.

I believe that we are evolving into a better just society and that is why those that are unjust will be brought down and dealt with legally.

si3tech's avatar

Right along with politically correct and the cancel culture, I think so.

janbb's avatar

I’d like to see the link where this has been suggested or is this just something that your imagination has cooked up? Most reasonable people can make the distinction between images of lynching depicted for prurient interest and hangings in Westerns as a method of killing.

Jeruba's avatar

Hanging has by no means been the province of American Westerns. Consider:

“Hanging was one of the modes of execution under ancient Roman law, and it was subsequently derived by the Anglo-Saxons from their Germanic ancestors. It was the prescribed mode of punishment for homicide in England by the 12th century, and in time it came to supersede all other forms of capital punishment for felony convictions until the abolition of capital punishment in Great Britain in 1965. Public hangings were held in England until 1868, when they were removed to prisons.

“Hanging became the standard mode of execution throughout the British Empire and wherever else the Anglo-American common law was adopted. It also came into use in Russia, Austria, Hungary, and Japan. Hanging was the preeminent means of execution in the United States until the mid-20th century.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Is someone proposing to go through the entire repertoire of film imagery—and, I suppose, of still imagery as well—and purge it of any reference to this ancient means of execution? Or is this just an extreme and absurd hypothetical?

Whatever a person’s position may be on legal or even illegal execution, I don’t think it can be argued that the gallows and the noose throughout history stand for the systematic oppression and persecution of any particular population.

kritiper's avatar

@janbb Bubba Wallace, the race car driver, made a huge fuss over a garage door pull down rope that was fashioned into a noose. He made it sound as though a noose, any noose was offensive to blacks and possibly, therefore, race specific to blacks. (An obvious overreaction on his part, IMO.)
Nooses are not race specific, and if deemed so like so many other objects such as statues, monuments, memorials, should be, possibly, banned. (Again, a case of political correctness run amok.) And that was the nature of my question.

janbb's avatar

You went from a specific situation to a ridiculous assumption. He thought initially it was a racist attack because nooses are symbolic of lynching to Black people. It turns out he was wrong. Nobody but you is talking about banning all nooses in films. You’re the one whose ideas have run amok and your lack of empathy is showing.

kritiper's avatar

To all who may read the previous post by @janbb:: A fine example of political correctness run amok. My point exactly!
Many people are (seemingly) overreacting to so much these days. I was just attempting to point it out.

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