the funny thing about the recurring attention on the 1619 project is how it no longer really exists as a discrete package of arguments and observations and art from a variety of different writers and artists. it’s essentially a totem for “wokeness run amok” or some such thing.
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Well "younger scholars" is a clue .,.
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Fox News types only read history books written by David Brat or co-written by Fox News hosts usually titled Killing Blank.
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that was before it white supremacists felt threatened by it
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The academic left is supposed to stay in its lane of obscurity. The left is supposed to win the Culture Wars, but the intrusion of left/liberal inquiry into History and Tradition is a new affront.
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It was always about the framing—the details are not as important as a narrative that they hear as “America is Bad because of slavery” when we are supposed to say “America is Good because we stopped slavery.”
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I'd say it's even more about *who* framed it. Republicans would be mad if a white man wrote it, yes. But it's only a year long story because a black woman didn't just shut up and be grateful that she's not a slave.
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Well Barack Obama is a moderate Democrat and he was painted as a radical extremist Muslim anti-colonial communist controlled by the ghost of his father...so portraying the 1619 project as this extreme over the top destruction of history is pretty mild for some of these folks.
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American conservatives are fascists who need bogeymen and the US Left is too milquetoast to play the part to their satisfaction. And so we get the paranoid hyperbolic fantasies about mainstream scholarship from people who don't read it.
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Same
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