The view of the #1619Project that baffles me most is the idea that it is a project intended for (and intended to enrage/spur) white liberals, as if black Americans — the heart of the project — are somehow invisible.
There are numerous pieces in The Federalist and other right-leaning outlets that seem to argue that the history of slavery is “divisive” and will only raise the ire of audiences, without contemplating that that history is the history of millions of Americans.
In all seriousness, isn’t this what the whole “easily offended” and “whoa triggered” thing was about? People letting their feelings get in the way of… facts, shall we say?
I’m just saying, some “free speech” proponents sure seem a little… snowflakey about this effort.
Like the entire argument certain people made against someone being able to have an abortion in cases like this one was “well how would we be able to punish her rapist” and it turns out they just … don’t
Funnily enough the 1945 Nazi film “Kolberg” (a fictionalized account of the Napoleonic Wars) actually did use frontline Nazi troops because Joseph Goebbels was an evil moron
Again, they were doing this during like, the Invasion of Normandy.
These dorks pulled 5,000 troops out of the Eastern Front to appear in a film that got released two weeks before the city that it premiered in was liberated by the Allies
My oldhead uncle lied about his age to enlist in the Korean War and his obituary described his entire experience of the 1960s and 1970s — during which time he lived in San Francisco — as follows.
1.) people ask "can i have some police reform"
2.) powerful people are like "no but here's some shit wrapped in kente cloth and a white lady is here to yell at you about something"
3.) now people are mad about the shit wrapped in kente cloth and there's no police reform