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This @AdamSerwer survey of the 1619 is, as one would expect, very fair minded, informed, and accurate theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
One thing I noticed was the letter written by Wilentz and co was cc'd to all the top NY Times editors and the publisher. This is some prime "let me talk to your manager" bullshit. I hate this sort of big footing intervention.
In the @AdamSerwer, Sean Wilentz is quoted as saying the Dunning School was “not a white point of view; it’s a southern, racist point of view.” William Dunning was born in New Jersey, taught at Columbia University & his ideas were echoed in textbooks all over USA
Wilentz characterization of the Dunning school strikes me as a far bigger historical blunder than anything the 1619 project has been accused of. Yet it won't make a ripple.
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