http://www.fox4news.com/entertainment/271078526-story

Commentary by David Cohensteinberg

A social media campaign to derail HBO’s planned modern-day Southern slavery drama quickly caught fire, prompting the cable channel to ask detractors to withhold judgment until they see “Confederate.” The campaign, with “OscarsSoWhite” activist April Reign among its organizers, asked people to tweet to HBO with the hashtag “NoConfederate” during Sunday’s broadcast of the channel’s “Game of Thrones.” “Game of Thrones” is produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who are developing the recently announced “Confederate.” The pair, who are white, will work on “Confederate” with husband-and-wife Malcolm Spellman (“Empire”) and Nichelle Tramble Spellman (“The Good Wife”), who are black writer-producers. Reign tweeted Sunday night that #NoConfederate rapidly shot to the top ranks of Twitter both nationally and internationally. It didn’t take long for HBO to respond to the campaign that amplified earlier criticism of the project. “We have great respect for the dialogue and concern being expressed around ‘Confederate,'” the channel said in a statement. “We have faith that Nichelle, Dan, David and Malcolm will approach the subject with care and sensitivity. The project is currently in its infancy so we hope that people will reserve judgment until there is something to see.” In announcing “Confederate” earlier this month, HBO described the story as following “a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone,” including freedom fighters, politicians, abolitionists and executives of a slave-holding conglomerate. A backlash quickly followed, including from writer Roxane Gay (“Hunger,” ”Difficult Women”). Her July 25 opinion piece for The New York Times carried the headline, “I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction.” “It is curious that time and again, when people create alternate histories, they are largely replicating a history we already know, and intimately,” Gay wrote. “They are replicating histories where whiteness thrives and people of color remain oppressed.” “File this under, ‘hindsight is 20-20,'” Bloys told a TV critics’ group. HBO was misguided in putting out a press release instead of having the producers explain the idea more fully in media interviews, he said. The show won’t be “whips and plantations,” Bloys said, but will draw a line between America today and its past as it tries to advance the discussion on race relations. The more producers can weigh in about why the project is important, the more it will make sense, Bloys said. “Confederate” isn’t expected to start production for at least a year, Bloys has said, noting that Benioff and Weiss are working on the final season of “Game of Thrones,” with the premiere date yet to be settled. The fantasy drama’s seventh and penultimate season just began showing.

As eBased readers are aware, I’ve already touched on this topic in great detail with a previous post. And apparently my vivacious commentary has now sparked an IRL social media revolution of sorts.

Yes, thanks to me, #NoConfederate is now a real entity. Kinda like the ghost of Bigfoot. A phenomenal phenomenon. A true fish story.

You can log into Twitter. Type something outrageously trendy. Then add the hashtag #NoConfederate to the end of the tweet. And just like that you’ll become an IRL SJW activist. Like me. And you can Rainbow Pill people until they shit Skittles.

For example, here’s a couple of tweets I have in mind:

Racist white men kidnapped Kings & used them as farm equipment. HBO makes show about it. #NoConfederate

I don’t have HBO. But if I did, I would never watch a show I didn’t want to watch! #NoConfederate

HBO shouldn’t be able to make shows I don’t like. #NoConfederate

If blacks are forced to watch a show about slavery, black-on-white crime might increase. #NoConfederate

All the slaves better be played by black actors or that’s cultural appropriation. #NoConfederate

Those are just a few thoughts off the top of my head. I know they’re rather edgy, but sometimes we just have to stand up for what we believe in. If there’s something on TV you don’t want to watch, you shouldn’t have to watch it. And other people shouldn’t have to watch anything you don’t want to watch either.

There should only be two exceptions: race-mixing and the Holocaust.

If white people aren’t forced to see race-mixing on TV, they might think it’s OK to be disgusted by race-mixing. We just can’t have that. Race-mixing is beautiful. Particularly when it’s dark black men with really pale white women. White people really seem to hate that, so I think they should be forced to see it everyday on TV.

Black people are already demoralized because of slavery. Back in those days, black men were lynched for raping white women. And they were even called the “n word.” Because of slavery, no black man deserves to have his advances refused by a white woman in the club. Or get shot by the police just because he’s an armed black criminal who won’t comply with the cop’s demands. It’s just not right.

And unless you’re an anti-semite, you already know why we have to be reminded daily about the Holocaust. It’s the single most important event in history. Nothing else, not even slavery, comes close. If we are allowed to forget about the horrors of the Holocaust, people might start hating Jews again. Then all the Jews would be sent to concentration camps. Or even worse, deported to Israel where they would have to live around other Jews.

That’s why we need communism. If we were communist then everybody would like the same things. We would live in harmony and love each other. It worked so beautifully in Russia. Nobody ever complained about what was on TV. That’s one of the tenets of communism. No complaining. If you complained you would be sent to a gulag. Or you might be quartered in front of your wife and kids. But besides that, Russian life under the tyrannical rule of the Stalin was wonderful. People really loved it. Especially Jews. Until Stalin read Mein Kampf and became a Nazi. Then he started killing Jews for no reason. Just like Hitler did.