For anyone who missed it and wants to see it, here's the schedule, it has changed slightly due to coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday.PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:22 pm I urge everyone to watch PBS' "The US and the Holocaust", beginning tonight at 8.
From a discussion between Burns and Speilberg here:
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the ... -spielberg
"KEN BURNS: I think that we see ourselves as an exceptional nation. If we are exceptional, and I think we are at times, we also must be harder on ourselves than anyone else. And we must come to terms with our great failings.
One of the most significant of these, I think, was our failure to respond adequately to the Holocaust. The United States let in more refugees than any other sovereign nation, but had we done 10 times that many, we still would have failed. Had we done 20 times as many, we still would have failed. We like to see ourselves in our simplistic, sanitized Madison Avenue view of history as a good people and a nation of immigrants welcoming others.
But we’ve in fact been as unwelcoming as we’ve been welcoming. And at the time when the Jews of Europe needed us most, with the power and the space to take them in and embrace them, we failed. From 1870 until 1920 we accepted many, though not all seeking to come to America. But we passed restrictive immigration laws in '21 and '24 and those quotas favored Arian and Nordic races as the National Socialists would say, and though it didn’t mention Jews, it put at the lowest end those countries which had the greatest number of Jews. And that bureaucratic glove was cruelly applied. But even after we knew what had happened, only 5% of Americans wanted to let in more Jews, even when we saw the results of the liberated concentration camps and saw what had happened."
So, how does something like this happen, and is it happening today? China? Uyghurs? Central American states? Plane trips to Martha's Vineyard?
If this awareness is "woke", then wake the fnck up, America!
▪ Part 1 premiered Sunday, Sept. 18, but it will repeat Monday night, Sept. 19, on PBS NC at 9:30 p.m.
▪ Part 2 will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. and 10:22 p.m. on PBS NC.
▪ Part 3 will air at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, and 10:15 p.m. on PBS NC.
All episodes are available for streaming at PBS website anytime
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the ... sode-guide