Anyone still confused why Republicans defunded PBS needs to look no further than a Thursday Amanpour & Company segment featuring host Christiane Amanpour and women, gender, and sexuality/African and American studies Prof. Imani Perry. Both would accuse President Trump of waging a war on knowledge as he seeks to reform the Smithsonian Institution, while Perry ironically spread historically-dubious narratives and warned of impending fascism.
Amanpour made no effort to even try to understand Trump’s perspective:
Trump, and let me quote him, has said the Smithsonian was, quote, ‘out of control.’ It's the—you know, it's the center of wokeness. He says "everything discussed is ‘how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.’ Not quite sure what that last bit means, but anyway, what do you think that they want to see at somewhere like the Smithsonian or any of the other institutes, like the National Portrait Gallery, The Kennedy Center that so much control has now been taken by the administration?
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