Saturday, March 07, 2020

One more historian calls out the 1619 Project for lies.

...In her lead essay, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” But that isn’t remotely true. Today we learn from Northwestern historian Leslie Harris that she pointed this out to the Times before publication but was ignored:
Like all the others who warned them about inaccuracies.

One thing pisses me off about this:
The author goes on to say she was very worried when she saw this had made it into the published essay because she feared it would be used as a cudgel to discredit the entire project.
Considering what a mass of lies and inaccuracies the Project is, and with the actual motive behind it seeming to be 'trash the US from the day it began', the whole damn Project should be discredited.

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