Viewers noticed an unusual addition to a recent airing of the mob classic "Goodfellas" on AMC: a trigger warning.
"This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers," a message reads at the top of the film.
An AMC rep told the New York Post over the weekend the network affixed the warning in 2020, during the height of the Marxian Black Lives Matter riots.
"In 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references that some viewers might find offensive," said the rep.
The "offensive cultural stereotype" references the film's portrayal of Italian mobsters, their children, their wives, and their business associates from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.
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