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Why, Despite Good Intentions, Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" Fails
Mosaic Magazine ^ | OCT. 13 2022 | RUTH R. WISSE

Posted on 10/18/2022 5:04:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: RedMonqey

I assumed it was but sometimes it helps to put the sarc tag on a post like that.


21 posted on 10/18/2022 5:56:36 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: ifinnegan

I saw it as a moralizing attempt to justify our current open borders mess.


22 posted on 10/18/2022 6:00:26 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Avoiding_Sulla

The real deception that Burns tries to get away with is trying to equate the State Department blocking of Jews trying to immigrate legally from Germany and the illegal invasion of our Southern border for economic reasons.

It would have been impossible for the US to take in the millions of Jews that were murdered by Hitler especially after Germany declared war on us. Attacking the death camps from the air would have killed thousands and made us accomplices in Hitler’s final solution.

The economic immigrants across the open Mexican border are enriching the cartels while promoting human and sex trafficking and bringing hardened gang members and other terrorists into our nation. Blocking this tragedy is the correct moral choice and Burns’ attempt at equating this with the Nazi final solution is dispicable.


23 posted on 10/18/2022 6:07:02 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: nickcarraway
In the U.S. Congress, those are not proto-Nazis fomenting hatred of Israel. In the State Department, it is not neo-Nazis who are urging treaties and amity with an Iranian regime that has vowed to exterminate the Jewish state and its people. Nor is it neo-Nazis assaulting Jews in Brooklyn, or neo-Nazis at the New York Times maligning the Jews and their homeland. Yet sadly among those last-mentioned maligners are, to repeat, American Jews and even some who pride themselves on repairing the world.

Word.

24 posted on 10/18/2022 6:08:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump EARNED his money. Democrats steal theirs from taxpayers. It's why they hate Trump.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Betcha he never does a documentary on Japanese Americans being forced into concentration camps. He’d have to mention liberal hero FDR time and time again.


25 posted on 10/18/2022 6:09:34 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hence Burns will never do a documentary on Japanese Americans being ripped from their homes and houses of worship and being sent to concentration camps.


26 posted on 10/18/2022 6:11:01 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: nickcarraway

He’s woke, ergo, he no longer has morals, judgement, and much less workable intelligence. May the flies of a thousand camels come to rest in his leftie latte.


27 posted on 10/18/2022 6:22:39 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: nickcarraway

Burns should focus on truth

He editorializes

No I haven’t seen this

I’m ambivalent

We lost a lot of men fighting that war

Why self flagellate now


28 posted on 10/18/2022 6:24:56 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: nickcarraway

There is leftism in this writer but she makes a few spot on points.


29 posted on 10/18/2022 6:26:14 PM PDT by xp38
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To: tet68

I noticed that “America is an oppressor nation” was being taught in public schools back in the 80’s. It has only gotten worse, except for President Trump.


30 posted on 10/18/2022 6:28:10 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: God luvs America

If memory serves, some Japanese pilots who crashed December 7th were assisted by Japanese US citizens to elude capture in Hawaii. In my college days, one of my party-line leftist buddies defended the interments, noting that the Japanese never had success setting up any kind of espionage or sabotage network in the US.


31 posted on 10/18/2022 6:28:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nickcarraway
Good intentions? You must be talking about a different Ken Burns.
32 posted on 10/18/2022 6:34:44 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: pfflier

Interesting. Makes sense what you say.


33 posted on 10/18/2022 6:39:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

It was comical at the end when Burns brought up attacks on Synagogues and blamed white supremacists backed by Trump.
Comparing WW2 immigration policies that prevented admission of persecuted Jews with the current anti-open borders sentiment was ridiculous.
The real fascists are the leftists that rig elections and run the DOJ and the corrupt police state agencies FBI, DEA, IRS etc.


34 posted on 10/18/2022 6:40:30 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: wardaddy

We fought the war to defeat an existential enemy, not to save any Jews.


35 posted on 10/18/2022 6:40:43 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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Whoops, internments, not interments


36 posted on 10/18/2022 6:45:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nickcarraway
Everybody has blindspots. Everybody misses things.

Remember when Burns got in trouble for not crediting Latinos with their contribution in WWII (or with their contribution to jazz music).

37 posted on 10/18/2022 6:49:49 PM PDT by x
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Ahso, I eagerly await my cap with the star on it.


38 posted on 10/18/2022 6:49:53 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: tet68
When our schools and media emphasize American failure over American achievement, they burrow at the foundations of the Republic.
...
We are approaching the moment the communists have been working toward for over a hundred years!!

Bingo!

We provide the useful idiots for their unobstructed "long march", it occurs in plain view and the majority of our politicians are just not inclined to rise to the challenge.

39 posted on 10/18/2022 6:50:18 PM PDT by frog in a pot ("Open borders" is an effective weapon when used by those intending to fundamentally remake America.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, at least this anti-American overrated jackass finally made the topic match the mood of his production values.


40 posted on 10/18/2022 6:56:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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