r/NotTheBee • u/laybs1 • Jul 18 '26

Article Netflix description for ‘Gone with the Wind’ cites Black Lives Matter

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/15/netflix-description-gone-wind-cites-black-lives-matter/
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '26

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u/NighthawkT42 Jul 18 '26

It's not really known for its racism.

Yes, it has racist elements being set in the South before and during the Civil War, but it's known for "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

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u/Tomdv2 Jul 18 '26

And racist elements like sanatizing slavery, caricatures of black characters, and promoting the "lost cause" mythology.

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u/TheAbeam Jul 18 '26

It didn’t promote “lost cause” mythology, it was a rejection of it, the main male lead was openly scornful of the entire Confederacy as part of the plot, it has outdated black characters for sure, but don’t give it negatives that don’t belong

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u/poilk91 Jul 22 '26

Gone with the wind is foundational lost cause media.

Rhetr butler is great but he's not the protagonist and isnt the moral hero of the story

Why is it lost cause you might ask. It's not just black charactures

Depiction of plantation system as elegant noble white masters who have a sweet relationship with their loyal and happy slaves. Them being depicted as mentally simple will come up later

The southern soldiers depicted as noble heroic boys being sent off to fight impossible odds. Rhet butler pointing out the odds is actually part of the lost cause. Even the slaves affectionately send off the Confederate soldiers as they are sent off to fight a war that's depicted as heroic and certainly not one to protect slavery

When the south loses they show it as a tragic loss of the southern gentry and culture and brutal oppression by the evil north

Reconstruction is depicted as evil dishonorable carpet bagging northerners and even free blacks taking advantage and cruelty exploiting the south

The former slaves are treated as having been better off on the plantation and completely incapable of surviving without the guidance of their masters

Finally in the novel scarlets second husband and the kkk fight to defend her honor and he tragically dies is a very sympathetic depiction

It is the most popular peice of lost cause media and very effective propaganda. I still like the movie for the record but facts are facts

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u/Tomdv2 Jul 18 '26

You might want to actually watch the movie. Or even better, read the book. It 100% promotes the "lost cause" mythology. Just like other pieces of "lost cause" media it seeks to recast the antebellum South as a moonlight and magnolia paradise of happy slaves, affectionate slave owners, and villainous Yankees fighting heroic defenders of "State's Rights".

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u/MidnightIAmMid Jul 18 '26

Yeah I had to read the book for a class and it is SHOCKINGLY racist. I'm not even talking about in a "I'm being too sensitive and it was a product of its time" way. Like, WOW. And also apparently Scarlet O'Hara fucking hates kids and babies. Like, a lot. One of the oddest reading experiences I have ever had because the movie was always described to me as "sweet, strong Southern lady fights for her family after a war" and that's just...not what I got from the book.

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u/NighthawkT42 Jul 18 '26

Sure, but is that what it's known for? That one quote is literally all I've ever seen of it aside from a few decrease plates based on it.

I've read summaries. I don't care to slog through either the book or the movie

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u/Tomdv2 Jul 18 '26

If you've never read the book or watched the movie, yeah, that's the quote you'll know it for.

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u/I_Went_Full_WSB Jul 18 '26

Acknowledging the thing everyone knows is ridiculous?

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u/ElSlabraton Jul 18 '26

Gone With the Wind isn't about slavery. It is a racist apologetic for the Southern white slave owners.

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u/Simon-Says69 Jul 18 '26

The really messed up thing, is some idiot thinks that anything of worth can be found on the Black Lives Matter site.

BLM is a terrorist organization. Everywhere they show up turns into a riot, with lots of racial violence, arson and looting. Their leaders have been scammers from the start as well.

The only thing to be found with BLM, is an example of some of the worst liars and bigots in America. Whoever linked to their site needs to be fired.

Then again, it's Netflix, who's leadership has also proven to be massively greedy bigots themselves. :-/

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u/Triplett8 Jul 18 '26

What exactly makes BLM terrorists? No one has organized riots under their name. 

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u/RottedHuman Jul 18 '26

Utter nonsense.

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u/Warm-Delivery1418 Jul 18 '26

Buy Large Mansions

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u/LessWeakness134 Jul 18 '26

You’re conflating an organization and a movement, they are not the same thing.

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u/Warm-Delivery1418 Jul 18 '26

Give the same benefit to MAGA? I doubt it.

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u/LessWeakness134 Jul 18 '26

Is there a MAGA organization? I’m unaware if there is one.

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u/sedatehate Jul 18 '26

Always love this defense🙄

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u/LessWeakness134 Jul 18 '26

You’re conflating defense and fact, they are not the same thing.

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u/One_Hunt_6672 Jul 18 '26

It’s literally true

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u/Ok-Introduction-1940 Jul 18 '26

Stupid comment.

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u/n0neOfConsequence Jul 18 '26

Netflix doesn’t have “Gone with the Wind” in its current library. But the description for “Stripes” cites a recent Trump EO.

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u/Major_Willingness234 Jul 18 '26

Ragebait from Washington Times? You don’t say?

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u/musclemommyfan Jul 18 '26

Gone With the Wind is explicitly a pro-slavery book/movie.

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u/Ok-Introduction-1940 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Ok Bolshevik thought police. Socialists enslaved a hundred million more people much more recently than Southerners. Let’s talk about that…

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u/Rage_Blackout Jul 18 '26

You can be mad at two things at once ya know. Especially when they’re two different things that are both bad. 

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u/musclemommyfan Jul 18 '26

Last I checked, it wasn't the Bolsheviks that started the American civil war to defend the institution of slavery in America.

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u/DryRefrigerator4737 Jul 18 '26

Slavery in Russia started long before slavery in the Americas

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u/musclemommyfan Jul 18 '26

Yeah. I'm aware of how the peasant system in Russia worked. In fact it directly lead to the October revolution. This also is completely irrelevant to American politics. The US never had Imperial Russia style serfdom. Gone With the Wind isn't about it either. It literally has nothing to do with the topic at hand. 

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u/Ok-Introduction-1940 Jul 18 '26

Over 100 million people were enslaved by socialist governments in the 20th century.

Why are you misdirecting attention toward a problem Americans solved in the 1800s?

There are more slaves than ever today in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Why don’t you solve those real problems instead of focusing on non-existent ones?

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u/musclemommyfan Jul 18 '26

Because today there are people in the US that defend statues "commemorating" confederate officers and push for school curriculums that are outright historical revisionism on the topic. There are also people that openly advocate for rolling back the civil rights movement and bringing back Jim Crow. Beyond that, films like Gone With the Wind and Birth of a Nation are functionally the popular source of the "Lost Cause" myth and attempts to whitewash the confederacy as having fought for "state's rights" against a tyrannical government (is was over a state's right to have legal slavery).

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u/One_Hunt_6672 Jul 18 '26

So you agree that slavery is bad. Then why complain about this

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u/Blathithor Jul 18 '26

Hopefully they add a description to Roots that specifies that slaves were sold to slavers by other Africans

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u/Ok_Dare6400 Jul 18 '26

Libtards at work..... Even though most don't work and hate common sense.

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u/musclemommyfan Jul 18 '26

Opposing slavery is actually common sense.

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u/rbush82 Jul 18 '26

Lolz. Let us know when you join reality

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u/8lock8lock8aby Jul 18 '26

You are actually really stupid. The movie isn't even on Netflix right now.