If you missed it, Ken Burns released a new woke documentary for PBS about the American Revolution.
Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh did a fun breakdown of the whole thing. Here's just one clip where he sifts through the leftwing propaganda:
The series argues that the Iroquois natives were noble, peace-loving tribes that actually discovered democracy before those evil white men. It presents women's shopping habits as the crux of the war effort as some kind of romanticized narrative to insert feminism into the Revolutionary era. It presents the only perpetrators in the slave trade as rich white men like George Washington, using the passive voice to exclude the rich slavers across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia that supplied the European slaver merchants.
The reaction to this woke revisionist nonsense in the Year of Our Lord 2025 was immediate.
Burns' documentary on the Revolution ends with a quote from Founding Father Benjamin Rush:
PATRIOTS of 1774, 1775, 1776 — HEROES of 1778, 1779, 1780! come forward! your country demands your services! Philosophers and friends to mankind, come forward! your country demands your studies and speculations! Lovers of peace and order, who declined taking part in the late war, come forward! your country forgives your timidity, and demands your influence and advice! Hear her proclaiming, in sighs and groans, in her governments, in her finances, in her trade, in her manufactures, in her morals, and in her manners, 'THE REVOLUTION IS NOT OVER!'
Because I'm just so dang tired of leftwing propaganda that attempts to cast people like me as extremist villains and paint American heroes of yesteryear as either villains or ardent Marxist revolutionaries committed to the finer points of 21st century liberalism (whichever one serves the narrative at a particular point), I want to offer you a better perspective - one rooted in reality.
(Unlike whatever is going on in Ken Burns' head these days.)
Enjoy this video series (2 episodes published so far) about Benjamin Rush and Common Sense.
From the lads over at Noble Story Co., Florida professor Jospeh Laconte, and the Centennial Institute. 👇
Me, enjoying a non-woke documentary about America:
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