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.
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@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 USAShow this thread -
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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Reviewer #2 demands corrections
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I’m sure baseballcrank will have a trenchant corrective.
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Why the hell don't they just write their own rebuttals and present their facts if they disagree.
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This parenthetical is such a lowkey devastating burnpic.twitter.com/pxEpn5ZzxT
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Mmm-hmm.
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I'm a big fan of Serwer, but turning “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country” into "anti-black racism is a more intractable problem than most Americans are willing to admit" is a motte-and-bailey tactic that blurs the central dispute he's exploring.pic.twitter.com/3xl7yQPjKP
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