"Dont you go exposing your breasts, Ms Scarlet."
Posted on 07/15/2026 10:53:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Netflix is drawing criticism from online commentators who accuse the platform of forcing political messaging into how the epic film "Gone with the Wind" is described on the streaming service.
The resurfaced description circulated online this week, reads, "A 1939 American Civil War epic known for its racism." It also directs viewers to instead search for Black Lives Matter content, adding, "To learn more about Black lives in America, search 'Black Lives Matter.'"
While the 1939 film is unavailable to stream on Netflix in the United States, the title page remains live as an inactive placeholder on its website. The inclusion of the Black Lives Matter label on the public landing page has drawn criticism online, with commentators accusing Netflix of imposing modern political narratives on a classic film. It's unclear, however, who penned the description.
"Buy physical media," Turning Point Action's Jack Posobiec wrote on X in response to an original post by user Valliant Renegade, who shared a screenshot of the Netflix page.
On Wednesday, billionaire Elon Musk waded into the debate, responding to a post about the description and writing simply: "Needs to change."
"Holy crap. I just checked. It's real," conservative account End Wokeness wrote.
It's not new, however; the description has been there for years.
In contrast, HBO Max, which is currently streaming the movie in the United States, describes it thusly: "A strong-willed Southern belle struggles to save her beloved home and find love against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction." On Hulu, the description reads, "Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War."
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Exactly why I dumped Netflix two years ago, social engineering and high monthly rates.
Academy Award winning “Mammy” Hattie McDaniel said, “I should complain
about getting $750 a week to play a maid when I’d be making $7 a week to be one.”
"Dont you go exposing your breasts, Ms Scarlet."
How can it be racist if it is a factual portrayal of the times? We may not like it but why hide the history? Were all slaves treated well? Of course not, but not all were abused either. I am not defending slavery in any way-—but it happened and it shouldnt be hidden. Let’s try not to have history repeat itself.
Mammy was the moral center and conscience of the film.
How can reality be racist? It is who we are and how we interact and nothing will ever be good enough for those who just wish to cause trouble.
"Pork" had great and quiet dignity, and maybe a little wisdom too.
"Big Sam" had courage, honor and loyalty.
They are pretty much the only ones in the book / movie that I'd want to hang out with. "Dr. Meade" and "Gerald O'Hara" were the only white guys worth a darn. "Prissy" was pretty much the only black person in the story that was portrayed in a negative light, and even she had some sense of loyalty, sticking with Scarlet even after being freed. (although the black guys hanging around with the carpetbaggers were no prize.
And even the great star of the movie, Clark Gable put his part on the line several times to see that the black actors were treated decently in real life by the Selznick Company, and his character Rhett respected the characters in the movie.
Gone With the Wind is VERY FAR from a racist movie. Heck, even a Spike Lee movie often shows more negative images of blacks that Gone With the Wind does.
I'd agree with that, but it is a great soap opera and even soap opera can rise to the level of great art (well, filmmaking).
And yes, it does paint the antebellum South, at least the Georgia plantation version of it, in a very positive light.
I finally watched it all the way through one night in 2007, it was on Turner Classic Movies.
What I most remember from the experience is that I kept waiting for someone, ANYBODY, to give Scarlett a good hard slap in the face.
I posted about the ordeal on Facebook. To this day, almost twenty years later, friends tease me about my hate of Gone with the Wind (the movie anyway, I haven't read the book).
I’m a 73 year old man. Watched GWTW a few years ago. Wasn’t impressed.
I remember seeing GWTW for the first time in a theater in the ‘60s. It had just been released for either the first or second time since 1939, and I remember the women in the audience gasping when Clark Gable made his first appearance in an opening scene. This was just a couple of years after he died.
The Obamunists still crave a race war.
LOL. She was a smart woman. God bless her.
The legend is McDaniel held a yearly “Hollywood party” and that her former co-star——
the king of Hollywood——Clark Gable, could always be found at her parties.
From the 1961 Billy Wilder comedy “One, Two, Three”: Phyllis MacNamara : “She married a Communist? This is gonna be the biggest thing to hit Atlanta since General Sherman threw that little barbecue!”
One of my fave films-—screamingly funny. She didnt see anything wrong
w/ commie’s “Yankee go home” b/c down South nobody like yankees.
A change of pace part for tough guy mega-star Cagney.
They finally get Horst Bucholz “to confess” to being an American spy by subjecting him to an off-tune recording of “She wore an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini.”
Had to teach Horst how to talk American to a Southerner,”the Civil War was a draw.”
The whole movie, the times back then in the dark South was ALL immoral. How do people think it is okay to own a person? Then the white masters had sex with the black women slaves.
My heritage is from Ireland. We were starved out by the English (King James bible tribe). But the Irish were free to go find a better life. The slaves were stuck, unless the white master wanted to sell them. Free farm help. My grandfather and his dad, HIRED men to help him.
How can reality be racist?
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the truth back then as today:
slavery is wrong.
Slavery is wrong.
You people cant see that. (you meaning from the South)
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