Talk:Intolerance (film)

A moral disclaimer from the transcriber

Please do not place this film in New texts. I intentionally left it out.

D. W. Griffith's creation of Intolerance to explore themes related to societies being "intolerant", was a response to censorship attempts and criticism against his previous film The Birth of a Nation (which I also transcribed, but see Talk:The Birth of a Nation where I gave a much more lengthy disclaimer). The implied message of Intolerance (and Griffith confirmed this in several interviews, see Intolerance (film) for more info), is that the genocide of the Protestant Huguenots in Renaissance France, the treatments of the striking workers and the couple in the modern America story, the treatment of the Babylonians by the Persians, and the persecution of Jesus by the Pharisees, are all equivalent in nature to people trying to silence white supremacists in the modern day (unbelievably ridiculous I know). And I therefore just wanted to say that, as the transcriber, I obviously don't support the original political message of this film.

The contents of the film Intolerance aren't problematic per se, unlike the previous film The Birth of a Nation which is one of the most widely known pieces of white supremacist propaganda in existence. The film itself never mentions The Birth of a Nation or the critics of that film, and doesn't have anything to do with white supremacist ideology or the Ku Klux Klan, so the film itself isn't really problematic if you isolate it from the IRL context surrounding its creation. So I didn't think {{Moral disclaimer}} was necessary here, but it is borderline so I did want to throw in a note anyway just to make sure people are aware. PseudoSkull (talk) 20:31, 31 January 2023 (UTC)