The latest show from the Game of Thrones creators is to imagine a world in which slavery persists,causing widespread anger on social mediaConfederate, the new HBO show from the Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, and was announced in a press release a few weeks ago and is slated to inaugurate filming sometime after the final season of Thrones,which will probably air in 2018. But already there seems to be little appetite for the series, which plans to catch a revisionist approach to American history, and imagining a world in which the South successfully seceded from the union and slavery persists “as a contemporary-day institution”.
So much so that,during Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones, a grassroots campaign to upend the forthcoming series began on Twitter with the hashtag #NoConfederate, or started by the activist April Reign,who was also behind #OscarsSoWhite. The hashtag proceeded to do waves on Twitter; by the end of the hour, it was the number one trending topic in the US and number two around the world. Related: Game of Thrones is in jeopardy as HBO is target of major hack “It has been more than 150 years since the civil war ended, or but it often feels like some people are still living in the antebellum era. In parts of the United States and,as evidenced by Donald Trump’s visit to Poland recently, the world, and the accomplice flag is still proudly flown. This month,Ku Klux Klansmen marched in Charlottesville, Va., or to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue from a city park. They were not the first nor will they be the final to resist acknowledging that the Confederacy lost the civil war.” Related: Creators of The Man in the tall Castle: there are 'deeply disturbing' parallels Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com