My last post- the Ken Burns propaganda film.

[Raynine]

I am leaving this site because it has become too left wing. This was written before my decision to leave.

Good luck to all:

I wonder if people here recognize what a carefully produced piece of clever propaganda the PBS documentary, “The American revolution” By Filmmaker, Ken Burns is. Some of the engineered inuendo are bizarre. Burns suggests of course that black slavery was invented by rich white people. Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the creators of our Constitution were sitting around one day and came up with the idea to go to Africa and steal slaves to provide labor for the new country. The reality is much more mundane and ignored by Burns as an inconvenient truth that is ignored while the weaving of woke storytelling attacks reality.

Burns counts on the fact that American schooling is so bad that no one will question the absurd conclusions pushed in indoctrination disguised as education. For the record, black slavery was invented in Africa by African royalty to gain fabulous wealth and power on the continent. Black power originated in Africa, and that power was used to capture other defenseless blacks and market them as slaves to whomever had the money to pay for them. This seems like an odd fact for Burns to leave out in a supposedly factually accurate documentary, but when you are entitled to your own facts, reality becomes plastic, not solid.

The furtive purpose of the film is not to educate but to inculcate hatred of the current leadership of the US by implying that the current US president is the result of historical racism and white privilege. Americans witnessed rich television football players kneeling on the field to fight the phantom slavery that woke America used to discredit the will of the people because they had nothing else to cling to. The derangement was so strong that a corrupted national election followed and ousted the real choice of the people. But it only delayed reality. The current president got back in.

Now desperation has energized deranged minds, and people like Burns realize that phony storytelling is the last best option to regain credibility with the people. So, on the wings of the Public Broadcasting system Burns is carrying the woke flag into the battle. It is doubtful that this will work any better than NFL-influenced race baiting, but burns is giving it the old college try.

As a descendant of slaves myself, I write this in earnest. Yes, I am descended from English subjects brought here as indentured servants and no doubt some of my ancestors ran away when they got here. Their fate was in some ways worse than black slavery because white indentured servitude was temporary like leasing a car instead of owning it. If you were a white indentured servant, you were the property of other whites who owned you. White runaway indentured servants were whipped, branded, and tortured, and in cases of violent resistance and escape; some were hanged. Even if you got away, you were saddled with a life of always looking over your shoulder. Strangely, Burns dismisses this as not worth mentioning.

The most ridiculous assumption made by Burns in the film is that Native Americans had a thriving democracy and that is where our American forefathers got the idea for our Constitution. Reasonable people know better, but there are many fewer reasonable people than there used to be. American education has sunk to an all-time low and skepticism is simply viewed as conspiracy theory.

Burns has produced some good documentary films in the past, but this one is just a coy work of targeted propaganda.

It is a shame.

 

[1srelluc]

Yep.

Very nice use of paragraphs.

Bye.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I am leaving this site because it has become too left wing. This was written before my decision to leave.

Good luck to all:

I wonder if people here recognize what a carefully produced piece of clever propaganda the PBS documentary, “The American revolution” By Filmmaker, Ken Burns is. Some of the engineered inuendo are bizarre. Burns suggests of course that black slavery was invented by rich white people. Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the creators of our Constitution were sitting around one day and came up with the idea to go to Africa and steal slaves to provide labor for the new country. The reality is much more mundane and ignored by Burns as an inconvenient truth that is ignored while the weaving of woke storytelling attacks reality.

Burns counts on the fact that American schooling is so bad that no one will question the absurd conclusions pushed in indoctrination disguised as education. For the record, black slavery was invented in Africa by African royalty to gain fabulous wealth and power on the continent. Black power originated in Africa, and that power was used to capture other defenseless blacks and market them as slaves to whomever had the money to pay for them. This seems like an odd fact for Burns to leave out in a supposedly factually accurate documentary, but when you are entitled to your own facts, reality becomes plastic, not solid.

The furtive purpose of the film is not to educate but to inculcate hatred of the current leadership of the US by implying that the current US president is the result of historical racism and white privilege. Americans witnessed rich television football players kneeling on the field to fight the phantom slavery that woke America used to discredit the will of the people because they had nothing else to cling to. The derangement was so strong that a corrupted national election followed and ousted the real choice of the people. But it only delayed reality. The current president got back in.

Now desperation has energized deranged minds, and people like Burns realize that phony storytelling is the last best option to regain credibility with the people. So, on the wings of the Public Broadcasting system Burns is carrying the woke flag into the battle. It is doubtful that this will work any better than NFL-influenced race baiting, but burns is giving it the old college try.

As a descendant of slaves myself, I write this in earnest. Yes, I am descended from English subjects brought here as indentured servants and no doubt some of my ancestors ran away when they got here. Their fate was in some ways worse than black slavery because white indentured servitude was temporary like leasing a car instead of owning it. If you were a white indentured servant, you were the property of other whites who owned you. White runaway indentured servants were whipped, branded, and tortured, and in cases of violent resistance and escape; some were hanged. Even if you got away, you were saddled with a life of always looking over your shoulder. Strangely, Burns dismisses this as not worth mentioning.

The most ridiculous assumption made by Burns in the film is that Native Americans had a thriving democracy and that is where our American forefathers got the idea for our Constitution. Reasonable people know better, but there are many fewer reasonable people than there used to be. American education has sunk to an all-time low and skepticism is simply viewed as conspiracy theory.
Burns has produced some good documentary films in the past, but this one is just a coy work of targeted propaganda.

It is a shame.

Errr, why leave? Would your Founding Fathers have run?!

 

[Crepitus]

I am leaving this site because it has become too left wing. This was written before my decision to leave.

Good luck to all:

I wonder if people here recognize what a carefully produced piece of clever propaganda the PBS documentary, “The American revolution” By Filmmaker, Ken Burns is. Some of the engineered inuendo are bizarre. Burns suggests of course that black slavery was invented by rich white people. Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the creators of our Constitution were sitting around one day and came up with the idea to go to Africa and steal slaves to provide labor for the new country. The reality is much more mundane and ignored by Burns as an inconvenient truth that is ignored while the weaving of woke storytelling attacks reality.

Burns counts on the fact that American schooling is so bad that no one will question the absurd conclusions pushed in indoctrination disguised as education. For the record, black slavery was invented in Africa by African royalty to gain fabulous wealth and power on the continent. Black power originated in Africa, and that power was used to capture other defenseless blacks and market them as slaves to whomever had the money to pay for them. This seems like an odd fact for Burns to leave out in a supposedly factually accurate documentary, but when you are entitled to your own facts, reality becomes plastic, not solid.

The furtive purpose of the film is not to educate but to inculcate hatred of the current leadership of the US by implying that the current US president is the result of historical racism and white privilege. Americans witnessed rich television football players kneeling on the field to fight the phantom slavery that woke America used to discredit the will of the people because they had nothing else to cling to. The derangement was so strong that a corrupted national election followed and ousted the real choice of the people. But it only delayed reality. The current president got back in.

Now desperation has energized deranged minds, and people like Burns realize that phony storytelling is the last best option to regain credibility with the people. So, on the wings of the Public Broadcasting system Burns is carrying the woke flag into the battle. It is doubtful that this will work any better than NFL-influenced race baiting, but burns is giving it the old college try.

As a descendant of slaves myself, I write this in earnest. Yes, I am descended from English subjects brought here as indentured servants and no doubt some of my ancestors ran away when they got here. Their fate was in some ways worse than black slavery because white indentured servitude was temporary like leasing a car instead of owning it. If you were a white indentured servant, you were the property of other whites who owned you. White runaway indentured servants were whipped, branded, and tortured, and in cases of violent resistance and escape; some were hanged. Even if you got away, you were saddled with a life of always looking over your shoulder. Strangely, Burns dismisses this as not worth mentioning.

The most ridiculous assumption made by Burns in the film is that Native Americans had a thriving democracy and that is where our American forefathers got the idea for our Constitution. Reasonable people know better, but there are many fewer reasonable people than there used to be. American education has sunk to an all-time low and skepticism is simply viewed as conspiracy theory.

Burns has produced some good documentary films in the past, but this one is just a coy work of targeted propaganda.

It is a shame.

too left wing?

Are you sure you don't have this place mixed up with some other site?

 

[Oddball]

Burns has always been a propagandist...Wouldn't have ever been given the push by PBS that he has been, if he weren't.

 

[berg80]

Burns counts on the fact that American schooling is so bad that no one will question the absurd conclusions pushed in indoctrination disguised as education. For the record, black slavery was invented in Africa by African royalty to gain fabulous wealth and power on the continent. Black power originated in Africa, and that power was used to capture other defenseless blacks and market them as slaves to whomever had the money to pay for them. This seems like an odd fact for Burns to leave out in a supposedly factually accurate documentary, but when you are entitled to your own facts, reality becomes plastic, not solid.

Luckily for me, my education affords me the ability to recognize horseshit when I see it. I've only watched the first three episodes of the "American Revolution" but have yet to find any suggestion whatsoever that slavery was invented by rich, white people. It does, however, note the hypocrisy inherent in colonial American's quest for liberty while enslaving black people. Jefferson and Washington being prime among them.

 

[Oddball]

Luckily for me, my education affords me the ability to recognize horseshit when I see it.