Thank you for your moral clarity and eloquence. As an American-Israeli whose son - he's upstairs now playing the piano - will be joining a tank unit on the Lebanon border this Sunday, and as a Brandeis graduate ('94), I am touched reading your words.
I have one for you to dig, Diana. Ken Burns, everyone’s favorite whispering storyteller of our things past, set to quiet fiddle music, years ago did a ‘documentary’ on Ellis Island. Perhaps the Statue of LBGT…anyway, a woman in an outside NYC setting has two very young boys with her. She claimed to be their caretaker (handler?). The heartrending story was of coming to America from somewhere inside the commie eastern bloc. Those boys were/are the Brothers Vindman. Who testified wholly BS lies, against President Trump. Amazing Polly did the vid on the Ken Burns story. I’ve lost it but will never forget it. Ken Burns. Of all the people sitting outside NYC one day, his producer interviews and photographs that woman and those two little boys.
Ken burns is a huge, elitist, steaming pile of dog crap.
Does he make good docus, sure, but they are laced deeply, with the libtard narrative of tolerance, inclusion and false moral equivalencies drug across centuries.
He is no different or useless, than the hollywierd scumbags he mutually slobbers over and they him, in their self aggrandizing high society masturbation.
I infer that Burns’s rejection of binaries is a rejection of the woke world view that divides everyone into oppressors and oppressed. Citing Singer, a politically conservative author who published serialized versions of his novels in a socialist newspaper, can also be viewed as an endorsement of complexity. That would be my lead were I covering the speech, notwithstanding the election endorsement and the unfortunate graveyard remark.
I mistakenly removed the comment as well as banning its author. I didn't mean to do that! The comment in and of itself wasn't rude or obscene, but it was patronizing. I meant to keep the comment and ban the user, since I don't want to hear from him anymore. The following is my original response to him:
I'm not going to bother with a pro forma, sarcastic "thanks for your response, but" I'm going to tell you bluntly to go fuck yourself, and ban you from commenting here.
Ken Burns wasn't speaking "inconvenient truths," he was bullshitting. Yes, there are situations of "us" and "them." His whole career is based on making documentaries about just that, and then distancing himself from that fact.
He exploited the opportunity to speak at a Jewish-founded university to lecture us as if we Jews need enlightening from his lofty Protestant perch.
In my imaginary Ken Burnsian speech, which you apparently did not read, I made sure to stake out a legitimate opposing viewpoint: "Israel is doing something that, in my opinion, only leads to a worse outcome." And to link that with Trump's popularity.
It's only by *understanding* that we can ever overcome the "us" and "them" binary that he purports to decry. He doesn't do that: he shuns and blames. He's a phony.
Thank you for your moral clarity and eloquence. As an American-Israeli whose son - he's upstairs now playing the piano - will be joining a tank unit on the Lebanon border this Sunday, and as a Brandeis graduate ('94), I am touched reading your words.
You're more than welcome.
God be with your son.
May your son be safe and well.
I have one for you to dig, Diana. Ken Burns, everyone’s favorite whispering storyteller of our things past, set to quiet fiddle music, years ago did a ‘documentary’ on Ellis Island. Perhaps the Statue of LBGT…anyway, a woman in an outside NYC setting has two very young boys with her. She claimed to be their caretaker (handler?). The heartrending story was of coming to America from somewhere inside the commie eastern bloc. Those boys were/are the Brothers Vindman. Who testified wholly BS lies, against President Trump. Amazing Polly did the vid on the Ken Burns story. I’ve lost it but will never forget it. Ken Burns. Of all the people sitting outside NYC one day, his producer interviews and photographs that woman and those two little boys.
I dig it!
Well said.
Ken burns is a huge, elitist, steaming pile of dog crap.
Does he make good docus, sure, but they are laced deeply, with the libtard narrative of tolerance, inclusion and false moral equivalencies drug across centuries.
He is no different or useless, than the hollywierd scumbags he mutually slobbers over and they him, in their self aggrandizing high society masturbation.
Goyish Privilege
Wow.
Completely missed the point.
I infer that Burns’s rejection of binaries is a rejection of the woke world view that divides everyone into oppressors and oppressed. Citing Singer, a politically conservative author who published serialized versions of his novels in a socialist newspaper, can also be viewed as an endorsement of complexity. That would be my lead were I covering the speech, notwithstanding the election endorsement and the unfortunate graveyard remark.
Note:
I mistakenly removed the comment as well as banning its author. I didn't mean to do that! The comment in and of itself wasn't rude or obscene, but it was patronizing. I meant to keep the comment and ban the user, since I don't want to hear from him anymore. The following is my original response to him:
I'm not going to bother with a pro forma, sarcastic "thanks for your response, but" I'm going to tell you bluntly to go fuck yourself, and ban you from commenting here.
Ken Burns wasn't speaking "inconvenient truths," he was bullshitting. Yes, there are situations of "us" and "them." His whole career is based on making documentaries about just that, and then distancing himself from that fact.
He exploited the opportunity to speak at a Jewish-founded university to lecture us as if we Jews need enlightening from his lofty Protestant perch.
In my imaginary Ken Burnsian speech, which you apparently did not read, I made sure to stake out a legitimate opposing viewpoint: "Israel is doing something that, in my opinion, only leads to a worse outcome." And to link that with Trump's popularity.
It's only by *understanding* that we can ever overcome the "us" and "them" binary that he purports to decry. He doesn't do that: he shuns and blames. He's a phony.
Now scram.