At about minute -14 Burns says: "When somebody disagrees with you and your fire them, ..." of what do you think. When I heard him say this I thought of cancel culture, the most powerful religious force in our society today. But not Burns, he thinks of someone fired for plausible cause by DeSantis. Perhaps Rebekkah Jones, fired in Flo…
At about minute -14 Burns says: "When somebody disagrees with you and your fire them, ..." of what do you think. When I heard him say this I thought of cancel culture, the most powerful religious force in our society today. But not Burns, he thinks of someone fired for plausible cause by DeSantis. Perhaps Rebekkah Jones, fired in Florida for a history of violating DOH policy. Or perhaps Andrew Warren, the Tampa Bay prosecutor fired by DeSantis for ostentatious selective enforcement of the law. Of course, Burns vigorously promotes a partisan political agenda, it's obvious, and he's willing to twist history to support his agenda. I dramatically lowered my expectation that he's a remotely reliable documentarian.
Burns repeatedly trots out this tired trope that Trump rhymes with Hitler. I think that Trump rhymes better with the Gracchi brothers but your ear may hear things differently. More importantly, what is the most powerful authoritarian forces in our society? Take the anti-semitism on which his documentary focuses. Yes, we have some ridiculous white supremacists and we have the occasional (too frequent) white Nazi attacking a synagogue. But we also have frequent attacks on Jewish people by black haters aligned with the left, the Crown-Heights pogrom inflamed by the still popular Al Sharpton, and the casual anti-semitism of Ilhan Omar, a duly elected US Representative. Which source of anti-semitism is most powerful in our society today? In college classes some students still read Mein Kampf, do you think they read it with the same adulation and expectation of insight that they read the anti-semite writer James Baldwin? Who is more persuasive in modern America?
Alas, one could go on and on about the obvious failures of perception Burns demonstrated in the interview. Sadly, I now have to revisit my opinions about his other documentaries with my new much-lowered assessment of his capabilities.
At about minute -14 Burns says: "When somebody disagrees with you and your fire them, ..." of what do you think. When I heard him say this I thought of cancel culture, the most powerful religious force in our society today. But not Burns, he thinks of someone fired for plausible cause by DeSantis. Perhaps Rebekkah Jones, fired in Florida for a history of violating DOH policy. Or perhaps Andrew Warren, the Tampa Bay prosecutor fired by DeSantis for ostentatious selective enforcement of the law. Of course, Burns vigorously promotes a partisan political agenda, it's obvious, and he's willing to twist history to support his agenda. I dramatically lowered my expectation that he's a remotely reliable documentarian.
Burns repeatedly trots out this tired trope that Trump rhymes with Hitler. I think that Trump rhymes better with the Gracchi brothers but your ear may hear things differently. More importantly, what is the most powerful authoritarian forces in our society? Take the anti-semitism on which his documentary focuses. Yes, we have some ridiculous white supremacists and we have the occasional (too frequent) white Nazi attacking a synagogue. But we also have frequent attacks on Jewish people by black haters aligned with the left, the Crown-Heights pogrom inflamed by the still popular Al Sharpton, and the casual anti-semitism of Ilhan Omar, a duly elected US Representative. Which source of anti-semitism is most powerful in our society today? In college classes some students still read Mein Kampf, do you think they read it with the same adulation and expectation of insight that they read the anti-semite writer James Baldwin? Who is more persuasive in modern America?
Alas, one could go on and on about the obvious failures of perception Burns demonstrated in the interview. Sadly, I now have to revisit my opinions about his other documentaries with my new much-lowered assessment of his capabilities.