Their first article was here. The current one is here. I haven't had time to read the whole thing, here's one excerpt:
The methodology that underlies the 1619 Project is idealist (i.e., it
derives social being from thought, rather than the other way around)
and, in the most fundamental sense of the word, irrationalist. All of
history is to be explained from the existence of a supra-historical
emotional impulse. Slavery is viewed and analyzed not as a specific
economically rooted form of the exploitation
of labor, but, rather, as the manifestation of white racism. But where
does this racism come from? It is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the
historical DNA of American “white people.” Thus, it must persist
independently of any change in political or economic conditions.
Hannah-Jones’s reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive
racial antagonisms from innate biological processes. Democratic Party
politician Stacey Abrams, in an essay published recently in Foreign
Affairs, claims that whites and African Americans are separated by an
“intrinsic difference.”
This irrational and scientifically absurd
claim serves to legitimize the reactionary view—entirely compatible
with the political perspective of fascism—that blacks and whites are
hostile and incompatible species.
Please note: who's been demanding segregated dorms and classes and 'multi-cultural centers'? It hasn't been conservatives/libertarians...
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