Affleck wanted slave-owning ancestor censored from PBS program

[whathehell]

75. You might want to actually WATCH the show in question "Finding your roots"

as your comments make it clear you have not.

To say that "The idea of 'in for a penny, in for a pound' is 'ridiculous' when

it comes to a person's family", is in itself ridiculous when the show

show in question is all ABOUT family and distant ancestors. What is not only

silly, but self-important is demanding that you, unlike every other guest, get

to cherry pick only those family members you are "proud of".

What makes it worse, of course, is that the "censored" information -- and your attempts

to hide it -- eventually come out and make the person look even worse -- silly and

deceptive -- than he would have if he'd done what all the other guests did and refrained

from hiding it.

Your claim of guests being in the position of "having to address the wrong doing of distant ancestors",

is just one more clue you've never watched the show -- As mentioned before, Afleck

isn't the only guest who had a slave owner ancestor, and neither he, nor anyone

else is made to "address the actions of wrong doers". Only someone with an out-sized ego

would try, even by omission, to make his entire family tree look squeaky clean.

As Steve Kornacki, host of MSNBC's "UP' said today of the incident, "I think Ben's taking

himself a little too seriously". I agree and would add that I think you are as well.