Ken Burns compares sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard to rise of Nazis
September 16, 2022
Note to Ken Burns: The following two pictures are posted to teach you the difference between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Adolf Hitler's Nazis (ed.)
On arrival at Auschwitz, prisoners were sorted either for labor or immediate death in gas chambers 
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid for two planes to fly migrants to ritzy Martha's Vineyard. Pictured: The migrants waiting at a Martha's Vineyard church to receive decent shelter and good food
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has sparked outrage by comparing the relocation of border crossers to idyllic Martha’s Vineyard to the rise of Nazi Germany before the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Brooklyn-born, longtime Democratic donor made the direct comparison Thursday while appearing on CNN to promote his new film, “The US and the Holocaust.”
Without hesitation, he agreed with host John Berman’s suggestion that the doc addressed “some of the same themes” seen in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send “two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.”
“This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” Burns, 69, insisted of DeSantis’ relocation of around 50 border crossers to the Massachusetts hotspot.
Ken
Burns told CNN that the relocation of border crossers to Martha’s
Vineyard was “straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” comparing it
to his new doc about the Holocaust..
“What we find in our all films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today.
“And so, when you look at the story that we’re telling of the US and the Holocaust, you understand that the time to save a democracy is before it’s lost. We promise you,” he warned.
Sitting alongside co-director Lynn Novick, Burns insisted that sending immigrants to one of the ritziest vacation spots in the US was actually “the abstraction of human life.”
“It’s basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn’s and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody’s authoritarian game,” he insisted.
“This is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis — to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose,” he claimed.
“This
is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis — to use human beings, to
weaponize human beings for a political purpose,” Burns told CNN.
“It’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida — like the Walt Disney Company — he punishes them,” Burns continued.
“This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there’s an exchange of ideas.
“This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.”
His comments quickly sparked outrage and derision online, including memes showing an aerial shot of the exclusive enclave that has long been home to left-leaning celebrities and Democratic pols, including former President Barack Obama.
“This? This is Auschwitz?” the meme asks alongside the postcard-worthy scene.
A writer on Twitter also noted increduously, “Ron DeSantis giving migrants free food, water, and plane tickets to Martha’s Vineyard is like the Holocaust. WHAT?“
The arrival of a handful of border crossers in the ritzy liberal enclave has sparked an apparent “humanitarian crisis.’’
“He sent them to a place that is a bucket list for us little people,” another person tweeted.
“You aren’t allowed to compare vaccine passports to the leadup to the Holocaust but Ken Burns can compare sending illegal immigrants to a vacation island to the Holocaust,” one podcaster tweeted.
Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson also skewered Burns during a monologue on his show late Thursday.
“The horrors! This is genocide!” he said sarcastically.
The border crossers arrived on Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday.
He then insisted, “Martha’s Vineyard may be a modern-day death camp, but compared to where illegal aliens usually go, it doesn’t look that bad.”
He showed footage from this week of dozens of border crossers in El Paso, Texas, saying it showed “chaos, violence and filth” in the border towns “now completely overrun under [President] Biden’s border policy.”
It was followed by footage of Martha’s Vineyard. “It’s hellish, perhaps, but in a very different way,” Carlson quipped of the leftist hotspot.
“Families eating together on balconies overlooking the water; women doing their shopping in quaint little towns on their bicycles; couples strolling on the boardwalk; sailboats. It doesn’t look that bad,” he said.
Carlson also suggested they house the new arrivals in Obama’s house there.
“There is no reason Obama needs that much space — nobody needs that much space,” he said.
“You can probably fit a dozen immigrant families in Barack Obama’s pool house, and another five or six in the pantry,” he quipped.
“As Biden often reminds us — illegal immigration is a gift,” he said.
3 comments:
Apple and Oranges. People who compare the illegal aliens being transported by State Governors to the Holocaust are Morons.
Shame on you. You're giving morons a bad name!
I have never personally seen any of the camps but from photographs I would say that they do not closely resemble Marthas Vineyard. I used to think that Ken Burns was a fairly bright, insightful guy.
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