Triumph of the Censor

As readers are aware, YouTube is censoring everything it doesn't like. All kinds of unsavory types are being kicked off the platform or demonetized.

So the censorious gobshits at YouTube, almost certainly moron Millennials who think time began with Obama's election, have taken down Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Nazi propaganda film: Says Indywire: 

Riefenstahl’s harrowing depiction of the Nuremberg Rallies remains an essential look at the ideological power of the moving image, and how it can be co-opted on a mass scale. Despite the film’s aims, it has been taught in universities for decades — and not because film professors hope to advance the horrific mindset of the Third Reich. The movie uses the singular power of the medium to glorify Adolf Hitler in visceral terms: From the moment the filmmaker’s camera advances through the clouds, tracking Hitler’s descent to the rising crescendo of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” it elevates the rising dictator to god-like stature. Similarly, montages of soldiers saluting their leader — and, later, children in a Hitler Youth parade — illustrate the capacity of the Third Reich to convey the deranged euphoria of subservience.

Anyone else see the irony in censoring book burners?

We say without hesitation that Triumph of the Will is a brilliant work. It is a cultural artifact. One see's Riefenstahl's aesthetic touch in hundreds of films,  Star Wars and Starship Troopers for instance. Why just a few weeks ago Queen Daenerys' victory rally after the destruction of King's Landing echoed Triumph of the Will. 

We also say that moron Millennial censors should try watching films instead of banning them.