The Help Is Trending on Netflix. Here's Why Twitter Users Are Begging You to Watch Something Else

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right now. In fact, according to Entertainment Weekly, the 2011 film is the on Netflix amid nationwide protests.It's not hard to see why that may be.

The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel of the same name, is an Oscar-winner starring , , , , and ! It follows a privileged young Southern woman (Stone) in the early 1960s who interviews the maids working for white families during the civil rights movement.

How could such a film possibly be problematic?Well, the film was written and directed by a white man, based on a novel by a white woman, and centers the story around white people—particularly Stone's character, who is a prime example of a .

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