Although this is not directly a mental health issue, it is certainly an issue that is causing me (and I suspect many of you) deep distress. The current controversy over taking down statues of Confederate heroes and images of the Confederate flag has now turned to the old TV show Dukes of Hazzard"--odd to begin with since reruns were already removed from the air back in 215.
Are we to delete (or even burn) any and all period pieces because they include practices we now find abhorrent? In June, HBO Max temporarily removed from its collection the 1939 movie ‘Gone with the Wind’." Will the book be removed from libraries? An awful lot of films/books about the Holocaust would fall into the same category. The value of such pieces is to teach/show behaviors that are wrong and should not be permitted. Perhaps adding disclaimers would be helpful if the objectionable behavior is not clearly rejected in the story.
George Orwell, of course, said it better in "1984"-- “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped, it ceases to exist. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right and there are no exceptions.”