Does anyone, actually, believe that the book - "Gone With the Wind" - is racist?

Many do, yes...which is why one should not blindly accept everything that is often sold under the "progressive" label.

There was a time "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was banned in schools because people objected to it's depiction of "white boys being friends with coloreds"..... Now there are people who want the book banned because they object to the "racist language."

Hmm.... what was that line in "The King and I" about how "men of science and men of religion..... in constantly trying to contradict one another....always end up making the same conclusion?"

I studied English and American literature during the early days of what is today called the "PC movement" My university's English department was routinely rated among the Top 25 in the nation by many magazines and academic journals....and yet for my four years of study, not a single class was offered on Hemingway or Faulkner. Why? Because as one younger member of the English department put it: "We need to move away from celebrating male chauvinist bigots."

Well.... thank you for making that judgement on my behalf and thus saving me the problem of actually having to think for myself..... I mean, that's what college is all about.... right?

So yes... many do, in fact, believe that a book can be "racist" and....what's more...use that as justification to prevent the distribution, reading and study of it. But the important thing is not to simply discredit and demonize that way of thinking based on your own "better feelings."

....to do so would simply put yourself on par with the book burners...

Instead, invite open discourse where their "poor thinking" meets your "bad book" and .... hopefully... learn something from the study of both.

Yes. It was made in the South in a very different time, so there is some mild racism, which reflected the views back then.

Anyone who has read the book knows it is.

It was made back then, so that means you know what.

why you saying that