Thread by @ombudsman4truth

There's a new book Forget The Alamo that tries to do to Texas Independence what the 1619 project did for the American Founding

Like the 1619 project said of the founding fathers, it claims Texans only wanted independence because Mexico wanted to end slavery and so they fought...

to keep their slaves. (As if Mexico was a paragon of moral virtue in the 1830s.)

I've been arguing with supporters of it online about the historical accuracy, but of course motives are difficult to pin down two hundred years later.

(For the 1619 project a dozen top historians  said she was dead wrong)

but I've found a very quick way to win every argument: I ask "Was it a good thing, or a bad thing, that Texas got its independence from Mexico?"

 crickets

#ForgettheAlamo
@BryanBurrough
@JasStanford

It's more than just a rhetorical trick. None of the three far left authors would ever argue Texas would be better off being a part of Mexico because everyone understands that's absurd. The reason is a combination of the people they call white supremacist and the ideas they held

Created the most prosperous state in the most prosperous country on the face of the earth.

Their marxist project to tar the Texas Founders as Racists is undercut by our daily lived reality.

You have to literally blind yourself to reality to live in their fantasy world.

What they're doing is simply a slick-media fawned over -psuedo intellectual - version of what Communist Revolutions do everywhere , which is : begin by destroying the people's history and founding mythos, in order to brainwash from a clean slate. Brainwashing 101.

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