re: If you are interested in generational divide of politics, Fuentes-Piers interview is great

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What Piers did by doxing the father is pure evil

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I thought Fuentes was weak responding to that. He should have said, "My father wasn't racist. He was discriminating." and let it go at that.

I was actually impressed that Morgan let him express himself with very little butting in. Can you imagine Hannity not butting in? I can't.

Welp, I guess the algo decided this weekend was my turn to watch this interview. A few observations:

1) I keep hearing how talented Fuentes is and I see it. So much of persuasion is a person's voice, the way they enunciate, the confidence and crispness in their voice. He has that.

2) I reject his premise that American kids are guilt shamed in school about the Holocaust. If anything, learning about it in school made me prouder to be an American, because we were the saviors; we were the heroes in the story. We learned about young guys storming the beach under heavy fire to save people who were being tortured and killed.

It was never "you look like a German, don't you feel bad about the Holocaust?" It was "bad things were happening, and we (America) were liberators".

3) I don't know how anyone can defend his "Hitler is cool" comment, and Piers did a poor job questioning him about it. It wasn't just a "oh their uniforms were sharp" comment either, it was saying Hitler the person is cool. Fuentes claims to be a Catholic, which I assume means he believes in the Ten Commandments. How is a guy who broke Thou shalt not murder millions of times "cool"?

4) At times Piers was insufferable (not understanding proportionality) and at other times he did a good job. He gave Fuentes more of a chance to state his beliefs and allow the viewer to make up his/her own mind than I expected. He's way more pro-free speech than I assumed given his British/CNN roots.

5) I think Fuentes is smart and talented but has a lot of growing up to do. He contradicts himself a lot. He seems lazy and undisciplined. I'm all for bucking the system and rejecting the political correctness of the day but Fuentes is quite the imperfect vessel for that message.