{"id":1870861,"date":"2023-03-07T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ken-burns-takes-aim-at-desantis-and-compares-education-laws-to-soviet-system\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:00:48","slug":"watch-ken-burns-takes-aim-at-desantis-and-compares-education-laws-to-soviet-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ken-burns-takes-aim-at-desantis-and-compares-education-laws-to-soviet-system\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Ken Burns takes aim at DeSantis and compares education laws to &#8216;Soviet system&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ken-burns-takes-aim-at-desantis-and-compares-education-laws-to-soviet-system%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1870861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78223072\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"'It's time to restore faith': Boy Meets World star Ben Savage running for Adam Schiff's House seat\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Ben Savage, the star of the popular '90s sitcom Boy Meets World, announced Monday that he is running for Congress in California's 30th Congressional District to succeed Rep. 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Ron DeSantis (R-FL)<\/a> An appearance <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> On Tuesday morning, the leaders&#8217; policies were compared to the Soviet Union. &#8220;the Nazis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability to understand who we are and are not inclusive. They are exclusive,&#8221; He said. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/portland-oregon-last-two-walmarts-closing-shoplifting-surge\">PORTLAND, OREGON&#8217;S LAST TWO WALMARTS CLOSING AS COMPANIES SEE SHOPLIFTING SURGES<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Burns was heard on Monday <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/999\/BillText\/Filed\/PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida House Bill 999<\/a> Twitter: This would ban state universities using diversity, equality, inclusion and critical race theory rhetoric or principles when hiring or developing programs. Additionally, the state universities would have to remove &#8220;any major or minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality, or any derivative major or minor of these belief systems.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This thread was written by the director to express his disgust at the measure. He slammed it as &#8220;an assault on the very liberties articulated by the Founders.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Florida House Bill 9999:<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s greatest strength isn&#8217;t its suppression of America\u2019s complex history, it comes from our willingness to learn and engage with that past. Each generation has helped further bring to life the values articulated in the Declaration\u2026 (1\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Burns (@KenBurns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenBurns\/status\/1632802453232992256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2023<\/a>              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>               <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They are narrowing the focus of what is and isn&#8217;t American history. It&#8217;s terrifying. It feels like a Soviet system or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village,&#8221; He explained it to the hosts. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a kind of rewriting of history at the most dangerous level. It&#8217;s a huge threat to our republic,&#8221; He concluded. <\/p>\n<p>Burns also claimed that &#8220;I can tell you that Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and George Washington and John Adams and James Madison and Alexander Hamilton are rolling over in their graves if they think that this person is carrying the mantle of what it is to be American,&#8221; He revealed that he was currently &#8220;working on a major series on the history of the American revolution.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">              <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.air.tv\/v1\/iframe\/Y_l26sFpTwu878I3IOo_dQ?organization=MoTlAWfQQXyEPg6AYxEZSw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px;\"><\/iframe>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He claims that the Florida governor wants to portray American history in a positive light. &#8220;neat, tidy white picket fence morning in America.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>However, Burns said, &#8220;this is a complicated world,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ken-burns-desantis-compares-education-laws-soviet-system\">WATCH: Ken Burns takes aim at DeSantis and compares education laws to &#8216;Soviet system&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOcumentary filmmaker Ken Burns took aim at Gov. 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