1/x Calling out lies is not silence. NYT explicitly admits the 1619 project is revisionist history: “It aims to reframe our country’s history.”
It is filled with serious errors—which have been called out by top historians—but the NYT doesn’t care. You’re not after truth....
It is filled with serious errors—which have been called out by top historians—but the NYT doesn’t care. You’re not after truth....
2/x ...you’re engaged in propaganda. In the words of a former NYT editorial board member, “a new consensus has emerged...at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
3/x Why should the false revisionist history not be used as the basis of K-12 education across the nation? Not because of “cancel culture,” which you support.
But because it wrong & deliberately deceptive. As your former board member put it, “history itself is one more...”
But because it wrong & deliberately deceptive. As your former board member put it, “history itself is one more...”
4/x “...ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
Academic work should face scrutiny. Should aspire to accuracy. Not at the NYT. Weiss explained, “If a person’s ideology is in keeping w/ the new orthodoxy, they & their work remain unscrutinized...”
Academic work should face scrutiny. Should aspire to accuracy. Not at the NYT. Weiss explained, “If a person’s ideology is in keeping w/ the new orthodoxy, they & their work remain unscrutinized...”
5/x “...Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome....
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people...”
“The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people...”
6/x “...This is a galaxy in which...the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
7/x Here are some of the lies in the 1619 Project. In your own words:
"[America’s] founding ideals were false when they were written."
"The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal & a lie."
"[America’s] founding ideals were false when they were written."
"The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal & a lie."
8/x NYT: "[O]ne of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare independence was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."
ALL FALSE. And thoroughly debunked by accomplished historians like Gordon Wood & James McPherson.
ALL FALSE. And thoroughly debunked by accomplished historians like Gordon Wood & James McPherson.
9/x So, no, I don’t want to “cancel” the NYT. I want y’all to stop behaving like Marxist propagandists, stop peddling falsehoods to children, and behave instead like real journalists.
