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  • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
    Oh, and it turns out this racist editor had a major hand in the 1619 Project:

    Hughes was no small part of the newspaper’s work on this, as she was on the byline of one of two major feature pieces on the broadsheet print edition of the special.
    Now that is a shock!
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    • She can't be racist. She is hating on white people.

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      • Update, courtesy of Rich Lowry:

        Source: Historians Roast the 1619 Project

        The reviews of the 1619 Project are in.

        It is “a very unbalanced, one-sided account.” It is “wrong in so many ways.” It is “not only ahistorical,” but “actually anti-historical.” It is “a tendentious and partial reading of American history.”

        This is what top historians have said of the splashy New York Times feature on slavery in the U.S. that aspires to fundamentally reorient our understanding of American history and change what students are taught in the schools.

        Given that the Times can’t necessarily be trusted to give a straight account in its news pages of Mitch McConnell’s latest tactical maneuver, it wouldn’t seem a natural source for objective truth on sensitive historical matters, and sure enough, the 1619 Project is shot through with an ideological radicalism that leads to rank distortions and laughable overreach.

        The project has been controversial since it was first published in The New York Times Magazine last year, but its architects sneered at the critics as troglodyte conservatives (or “white historians”) unwilling to grapple with the country’s racial sins. Then the World Socialist Web Site — of all things — begin publishing interviews with eminent historians slamming the project.

        All of the above quotations come from the website’s interviews with highly accomplished and respected historians — the Princeton professor James McPherson, author of the magisterial history of the Civil War, “Battle Cry of Freedom”; the formidable historian of the Revolutionary War period, Gordon Wood; the CUNY professor James Oakes, who specializes in the Civil War period; and the Lincoln scholar Richard Carwardine of Oxford University.

        At the end of the year, the Times published an extraordinary letter from McPherson, Oakes and Wood, as well as Sean Wilentz of Princeton and Victoria Bynum of Texas State University, demanding “prominent corrections of all the errors and distortions presented in the 1619 Project.”

        “These errors, which concern major events, cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing,’” the historians wrote. “They are matters of verifiable fact, which are the foundation of both honest scholarship and honest journalism. They suggest a displacement of historical understanding by ideology. Dismissal of objections on racial grounds — that they are the objections of only ‘white historians’ — has affirmed that displacement.”

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        • Historians continue to call out the 1619 project for its factual errors and omissions.

          The latest salvo on the other side comes from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, writing in The Atlantic. Wilentz makes mincemeat of The 1619 Project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones' contention that protecting slavery was a main motive of the American Revolution, of her statement that Abraham Lincoln "opposed black equality" and of her avowal that blacks fought "alone" for equal rights after the Civil War.

          Wilentz was also a co-signer of a letter to The Times lamenting factual errors in its articles, along with Brown University's Gordon Wood, Princeton's James McPherson and City University of New York's James Oakes. Wood is a premier historian of the American Revolution. "I don't know of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves," he wrote in a separate letter to The Times' editor-in-chief, as reported by the World Socialist Web Site, which has taken an interest in the controversy. "No colonist expressed alarm that the mother country was out to abolish slavery in 1776."
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          McPherson, the leading scholar of the Civil War, said he was "disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery." Oakes, a leading historian of Reconstruction, calls the idea that "slavery or racism is built into the DNA of America" one of several "really dangerous tropes." He adds: "They're not only ahistorical, they're actually anti-historical. The function of those tropes is to deny change over time."

          Which helps explain why The 1619 Project makes short shrift of black leaders and their white allies who led successful fights to make enormous change. "One of the many odd things about the New York Times's '1619 Project,' on slavery," notes Steven Hayward, author of the two-volume "The Age of Reagan," "is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass)." Nor is there mention of A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, or the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.

          Wilentz, McPherson and Oakes aren't conservative polemicists; Wilentz is a strong partisan Democrat and supporter of the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Their point is that The 1619 Project is inaccurate in many important respects -- on certain facts and, even more so, in the overall lesson it seeks to teach...

          https://townhall.com/columnists/mich...wrong-n2560022
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          • Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:
            "The fight over the 1619 Project is not about history. It is about memory."

            "I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past."

            "The crazy thing is, the 1619 Project is using history and reporting to make an argument. It never pretended to be a history."

            https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

            So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


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            • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
              Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:
              "The fight over the 1619 Project is not about history. It is about memory."

              "I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past."

              "The crazy thing is, the 1619 Project is using history and reporting to make an argument. It never pretended to be a history."

              https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

              So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.
              So she is admitting that it is largely bull crap.
              Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

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              • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                Writer of the 1619 Project makes some rather interesting admissions on Twitter:
                "The fight over the 1619 Project is not about history. It is about memory."

                "I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past."

                "The crazy thing is, the 1619 Project is using history and reporting to make an argument. It never pretended to be a history."

                https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...oject-n2573222

                So she pretty much straight-up admits that it's propaganda. As in actual propaganda and not in the looser "I disagree with it, so it's propaganda" sense.
                More of that "truth" over facts.

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                • A Hulu docuseries based on the The New York Times' 1619 Project is on the way

                  Hulu is making a documentary series based on The 1619 Project, a New York Times series that explored the history of slavery in the United States and its enduring impact on American life. Roger Ross Williams, who was the first African American director to win an Oscar, will produce the docuseries and direct the first episode. Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer Shoshana Guy will act as showrunner.

                  "The 1619 Project is an essential reframing of American history,” Williams said in a statement. “Our most cherished ideals and achievements cannot be understood without acknowledging both systemic racism and the contributions of Black Americans. And this isn’t just about the past — Black people are still fighting against both the legacy of this racism and its current incarnation."

                  The Times teamed up with Lionsgate and Oprah Winfrey last year to create films, TV shows and other ventures based on The 1619 Project. It's not yet clear when Hulu's docuseries will premiere.
                  https://www.engadget.com/hulu-the-16...192736475.html



                  "The 1619 Project is an essential reframing rewriting of American history,”

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