Ken Burns: Democracy is threatened in every direction
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, co-director of the #documentary The US and the Holocaust, said, “the idea that our leaders, our Congress, the State Department, and more importantly for me, the American people” were unaware of the Holocaust, “is just not true.” #democracy
Today's unabashed disregard for decency can not stand. The inclination towards authoritarianism must be crushed. Too many people have died for, as Lincoln said, the last best hope of Earth.
just like we see today under the biden regime - “authoritarianism”
Scary but impressively true words were spoken by Ken Burns. We need to get ready and strengthen ourselves to face these painful realities.
Ken Burns is so correct! The man made documenies for us to think!
in 1929 Hitler has stated in the New York Post if any American Jews have family back in Europe to get them out or help sponsor other ones to get out the country
From what my dad (WW2 navy man) said, they heard rumours about how bad things were in Germany and knew about the nazis hatred of Jews, but they had no idea how bad it really was. The pictures of the concentration camps horrified him.
Yeah this is such nonsense.
The "mistreatment of jews" and the all out extermination of them are two WILDLY different things
Is the mistreatment of Jews more important than the mistreatment of Palestinians?
Well one of those things actually happens the other didnt
@@henrybierman8431 Yea just choose what facts are true and which aren't based upon your own personal bias. People like you are how people like hitler come to power.
One is no less or more important than the other.
I believe the cruise ship was called the St. Louis. Hitler filled it with Jews and it sailed to Canada, was refused. It went to the US and was also turned away. Those people were forced - by FDR - to return to Germany.
My grandmother was a Jew in the US during the time of the Second World War and she said there was major antisemitism in the US during that time. The average American did not want more “foreigners” coming into the country, even back then. Humans are tribal and we automatically distrust anyone who is different.
However, I don’t think anyone could imagine how horrorful the Nazi concentration camps really were - at that time we had never seen mechanized genocide on that scale before. The German people themselves mostly did not realize how evil their government had become re. the camps. Denial is a powerful self preservation mechanism we all are vulnerable to.
To the second part of your comment, you should watch the documentary he is talking about in this video. We did know what was happening in the camps well before we found them. The whole world knew as early as 1941 when the death camps first opened that the nazis were doing mass executions on an unfathomable scale. We knew in 1942 that there were gas chambers involved. The state department initially refused to let the press print the details, but by 42 accounts of the camps from escaped prisoners were being printed in US newspapers.
If you read first hand accounts of American soldiers and generals though, they all do express their shock. But they were well aware of what was happening before they liberated the first camp. I think the difference is knowing something in theory vs actually seeing and being physically present for the horrors right in your face.
But the notion that no one knew what was happening until the military was there is simply a myth.
@@WampusWrangler thank you for adding to my understanding.
Indeed, knowing and understanding are different things. Just because one knows how to sound out and say a word doesn't make those words have meaning. Even if one acquires figurative meaning based on context clues, there is limit to understanding without literal and comparable experience.
If you want a healthy body, you have to exercise and be determined to achieve that. If you want freedom and democracy, you have to put in the time and the energy to make that outcome happen. I believe people are really lazy, and they have stopped fighting for what is good for them.
To a 1933 Depression Era American who probably knew Germany was recently going through massive political unrest involving Communists vs. Fascists vs. the existing democratic government.
It's hard to imagine it but Americans saw German Jews as Germans like part of the German speaking diaspora in the U.S. of which German jews were a part.
1933 was the absolute most closed door time to come here asking for political asylum.
Begging for your life ( is more accurate)
His lead premise is pure bull$hit. But yes people need to get to work.
It does NO good for me to just say "yeah, I agree".
For 35 years, I paid the cost, out of my own pockets. To inform and motivate my employees and mentored "apprentices". Helping them Understand (head), Appreciate (heart), and Seek (personal action) the American Dream. As laid down by our Founding Fathers. In those years, I built an immense reservoir of materials for education and inspiration along these lines.
Let me ask: "What can I do to HELP YOU sound the warning, and spread the word ... more widely than I have accomplished by myself?"
What the heck happened to Ken Burns? Articles about "mistreatment" are a long way off from death camps & gas chambers.
His last gasps to be relevant
What happened? Did u even LISTEN to what he said? He's talking about what leads to camps! What's the matter with you This man hasn't lost a damn STEP! GET OFF YOUR ASS AND GET INVOLVED!
Not sure what it is that you feel happened to him but it was reported in newspapers that Jews were being targeting in German cities during the 1930's. The death camps weren't known until the US and Soviet Armies make it into Nazi occupied territory like Poland and Germany.
It’s literally the stepping stone to the concentration camps. Please get educated and stop spouting nonsense.
I don’t disagree with the facts of the message, but is being described with a little bit of a self-righteous tone. To know the Nazis were doing horrible things is one thing, but the commitment and reality of putting a stop to it is another. In hindsight it’s very easy to say it took us too long to react.
Why was it up to us to react? The genocide was horrible and unthinkable. But numerous countries far closer to the events did nothing. German citizens did nothing apparently. If the US 'meddles', we're imperialist. If not, we're responsible?
Bullshit.
There seems to be a disconnect in these comments with the fact that the US was trying to follow Switzerland's lead and remain nuetral. Right or wrong, that explains why the media may have downplayed the horrors.
Yea until they come for you and there’s no one left to stand up to them
Who our own kind ? 😂 yeah okay sure dude
So another failure that can be placed upon Roosevelt's head.
If you feel so inclined to place blame and point out mistakes, yes. But if you are sensible, you know that your actions should be focused on where we are going, not crying about where we are and looking for a fall man.
Will Ken ever do an expose on the history of Jewish Communism in the United States?
Good job that we had Pearl Harbour.
What’s with Ken Burns, Thomas ( Supreme Court justice) and Koch at a retreat together
It wasn’t “The Holocaust” in 1933, with plans and mission statement laid out in detail in every headline news piece from Europe. there was no inevitability to derive from what could be read then, as a widely known “Holocaust” was not embedded in the U.S. consciousness (had genocides happened sure, but not become a global touch point); need it be said we didn’t have the internet. We knew in college in the 90s the government “knew”, and we read popular and academic works on what could/couldnt have be done after 1941 to stop the Holocaust; which is to say this part is 30 yr old news, whatever failings may come from current education from popular films (and documentaries like Burns’). It is a myth there is a singular American myth of a singular form shaped by “parts” like this. To indict “The American People” is to also indict *members of groups and communities all persecuted in The Holocaust*, even those who did know - and as this sliced sampling suggests - because they were “Americans” - were duped by a preference for authoritarianism and tyrants. Conveniently most of the generation who lived then are dead and can’t come to their own defense (would Burns consider Roosevelts progressive Democratic administrations State of Emergency and New Deal government, declared weeks before Hitler’s - tyrannical? His acceptance of eugenics? Continuing federally backed forced sterilization of the mentally ill and “degenerate”, forced repatriation of Mexicans and deportation of Mexican American US citizens by cattle car to Mexico? - all of course examples held up as defining for the regime that began a few weeks later in Europe). Weigh how we are to take the claim that as Americans “WE are sort of wired to accept tyranny and authoritarianism”, a “lesson” to be learned from a Holocaust documentary - coming from a UA-cam channel repping the UN.
And would he consider the now-well evidenced Stalinist ComIntern influence (Venona Project, etc etc), in the American Left of the time and after as also symptomatic of “our” preference for authoritarianism?
We in the USA live in a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Yes, therefore we MUST abide by the US Constitution. NOT rip it to shreds like the GOP is doing.
UGH @@TrueBlueAmericanGirl
Which is a FORM of DEMOCRACY
Democracy is false if no standards are adhered to.. consistency is key ...unfortunately hypocrisy is apparent ...genocide is being committed ...every person of a right thinking mind knows this...whilst we converse babies have been murdered
I'm SURE this post had a POINT, but I'll be DAMNED if I KNOW what it WAS.
The problem I have with Ken Burns is the fact he blindly votes Democrat
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Which is why America needs to leave the UN.
What a dumb idea. Why leave a governing body we started?
@@bobdick815 It’s useless and harmful to this country and to the West in general. It seems to just pump out left-wing propaganda anyway. Throw them out of NYC. Ken Burns has wonderful documentaries at times but nowadays he is suffering from TDS and I am awaiting for him to start a documentary called “Orange Man Bad”.
@@bobdick815 Name 1 thing the UN does
The UN does lots of good work@@b25822
We are interested in the DONNER PASS ADVENTURE.
Papa said he was kicked by Stalin
This guy is really turning into a bizarre human being
How do you figure? He’s asking Americans to take the democratic process seriously, to engage responsibly, and be on the lookout for authoritarian threats to our system. Sounds great to me.
@@andrewjohnson8508 Do you little more research he’s part of the woke gang
@@oneanddonetzone3673can you be more measured and specific, or are you just going to rely on meaningless buzz words?
@@andrewjohnson8508 I always say do your own research. It appears you want to pick a fight I don’t wanna fight with you I have no skin in the game. But I will see if some of the comments that he’s made I found troubling. I was disappointed because I absolutely enjoyed his documentaries. So do your own research. I don’t wanna fight with you if you wanna defend somebody that is a noble undertaking. But I do have an opinion. Do you read very much? I have a neighbour that pretends to be an Intellectual dynamo but he does not read anything.. God bless you God bless your family. A few suggested books America under blackmail by Whitney Webb, the war on the west by Douglas Murray, The real Anthony Fauci by Robert F Kennedy Junior, essays by Christopher Hitchens,The man behind the curtain by Matt Polumbo.
@@oneanddonetzone3673 Yep, I'm pretty well read. I'm a history teacher and read primarily nonfiction on my own time (Shelby Foote's Civil War anthology) plus a lot of presidential biographies as well as Christian apologetics (C.S. Lewis, Schaeffer). Also read a lot of the classics (Locke, Hobbes, de Tocqueville, Voltaire, etc.). I'm not picking a fight; I'm asking you to explain your thinking. It's a simple intellectual task, not a fight. Bless you as well!
Ken Burns should stick to making propaganda in long form -“documentaries”
Burns has a soft spot for socialism. He makes goods docs but he's insane.
Theres nothing wrong with socialism.
@@CMichael2276😂😂😂😂 free North Korea ticket you left wing creepsta you never left America in your life
@@CMichael2276your a transmission close your motor hole 😂
@CMichael2276 There isn't in theory but in practice there is because it has failed many times with the public going broke, starving, and not being able to obtain public services in a timely fashion.
But the ideals are good. Never stop striving for those ideals. Even if you don't fully reach them, you make some progress toward promoting equity and compassion. That battle creates a life with purpose.
Bladee
It’s completely not my bloodlines issue plain and simple
Let me guess, Ken has TDS
No, that's a made-up name. But I am guessing he knows what an idiot Trump is.
Ken Burns reminds me of Joseph Goebbels, he is very good in dispersing propaganda and in manipulating the minds of the naïve.
Goebbels authorized violence, the extermination of thousands of Jews.
One can disagree with Ken Burns, but how is he mentioned in the same breath, let alone compared to Hitler's exterminators.
Something 💡 is truly amiss here. 🙄
The naive would be you.
lol, sponsored by the UN??? What joke
Don't care they git payed so stop talking about it
Stop peddling for "the people that can not be named". They are no longer to be viewed as victims, but perpetrators.