1/x Calling out lies is not silence. NYT explicitly admits the 1619 project is revisionist history: “It aims to reframe our country’s history.”

It is filled with serious errors—which have been called out by top historians—but the NYT doesn’t care. You’re not after truth.... https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1302612605014597633
2/x ...you’re engaged in propaganda. In the words of a former NYT editorial board member, “a new consensus has emerged...at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
3/x Why should the false revisionist history not be used as the basis of K-12 education across the nation? Not because of “cancel culture,” which you support.

But because it wrong & deliberately deceptive. As your former board member put it, “history itself is one more...”
4/x “...ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”

Academic work should face scrutiny. Should aspire to accuracy. Not at the NYT. Weiss explained, “If a person’s ideology is in keeping w/ the new orthodoxy, they & their work remain unscrutinized...”
5/x “...Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome....

“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people...”
6/x “...This is a galaxy in which...the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
7/x Here are some of the lies in the 1619 Project. In your own words:

"[America’s] founding ideals were false when they were written."

"The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal & a lie."
8/x NYT: "[O]ne of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare independence was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."

ALL FALSE. And thoroughly debunked by accomplished historians like Gordon Wood & James McPherson.
9/x So, no, I don’t want to “cancel” the NYT. I want y’all to stop behaving like Marxist propagandists, stop peddling falsehoods to children, and behave instead like real journalists.
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