PBS Hack Ken Burns: 'We’re in the Middle of Another Civil War'
There are plenty of terrible commencement speakers out there. Most are also boring. And when you pay Ken Burns to come out and speak, you’re insuring that everyone will be bored because boring people is what Burns became famous for.
Since Ken Burns is famous for exploiting the Civil War to make PBS seem relevant, he tried to bring the Civil War to Washington University in St. Louis.
In the most literal way possible when he told students, “I am drafting you now into a new Union Army.”
“You’re joining a movement that must be dedicated above all else — career and personal advancement — to the preservation of this country’s most enduring ideals,” Burns declared. “You have to learn, and then re-teach the rest of us that equality — real equality — is the hallmark and birthright of ALL Americans. Thankfully, you will become a vanguard against a new separatism that seems to have infected our ranks, a vanguard against those forces that, in the name of our great democracy, have managed to diminish it.”
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