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A good rundown of the factual inaccuracies of the 1619 project, some of which were intentionally included despite warnings from fact-checkers before publication https://americanmind.org/essays/america-wasnt-founded-on-white-supremacy/
NHJ also has basically admitted her project was agenda-pushing propaganda that "explicitly denies objectivity." If objectivity isn't real, then who cares if your facts are inaccurate? Quite the solve!
probably the biggest whopper is her claim that America rebelled from Britain in order to save slavery, in the face of—dare I say it—objective evidence to the contrary
(The Atlantic's Adam Serwer euphemistically called this argument "explosive," rather than what it actually is: hogwash)
. @PhilWMagness also spent the better part of the last year pointing out the faulty economics that support many other claims of the 1619 project https://www.aier.org/article/the-1619-project-resurrects-king-cotton-ideology-of-the-old-south/
And as @JohnHMcWhorter rightly noted in Reason, the good of destroying the factual, unifying, warts-and-all understanding of America's founding and original sin of slavery is what, exactly?
https://reason.com/2020/01/30/the-1619-project-depicts-an-america-tainted-by-original-sin/
https://reason.com/2020/01/30/the-1619-project-depicts-an-america-tainted-by-original-sin/
But sure, let's teach all American students to live in the objectivity-denying fantasy land of critical theory proponents such as Robin DiAngelo, who wants to do away with "rationalism" as a criteria for hiring teachers because abolishing capitalism will take care of inequities
Or objectivity-denying utopia of "antiracism" trainer Glenn Singleton, wherein racist "hallmarks of whiteness" such as "written communication" and "cause and effect" are abolished in favor of "elevating the consciousness"
hard to argue with the conclusion that a belief system that tells teachers and principles it's racist to teach minority students how to read and write isn't an "ideological poison"
If Trump's "1776 commission" or whatever it's called comes out with tendentious, factually inaccurate, ahistorical nonsense that "explicitly denies objectivity," then I'll happily do a thread trashing that as well.
