Despite HBO going into full crisis management mode to address the outrage over the announcement of its racially charged new series, Confederate, the backlash continues to build. Last week, HBO announced the new series, which imagines an alternate history in which the South successfully secedes and maintains slavery into the present day. The reaction was certainly not what HBO expected. Rather than celebrating the new series, many on the left strongly condemned the “slavery fan fiction,” citing the fact that the two creators of the show are white as a big part of the problem.
Now, AP reports, the social justice activists behind the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag movement have started a new one that has “caught fire”: #NoConfederate.
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