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.
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Playing along, Amanpour followed up, “So, let's just play this intellectual, you know, game out, which is not a game. I mean, it is a reality. What is the chilling effect? What happens when a government systematically tries to, you know, distance itself from knowledge, from, you know, actual history, from what's going on? What would happen to a nation if that is allowed to proceed?”
Because no left-wing freakout about Trump is complete without warnings of fascism and the collapse of democracy, Perry answered, “I mean, we've seen the examples historically. This is the attack on institutions of knowledge, it's one of the sort of consistent pre-court cursors to fascism and authoritarianism. It certainly is a deep threat to democracy if people are afraid to tell their stories, to participate fully in the nation. I will say though, notwithstanding all of that, that there are people who are continuing to resist this turn.”
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