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    1. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 19 Jan 2021

      The 1776 Report is bad in all kinds of ways, but a lot of the commentary from professional historians boils down to, "These people don't have the right credentials to be pronouncing on this subject, and people like me should be the ones with the power to tell the national story."

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @DamonLinker

      That was also the reaction many of them (especially Wilentz) had to 1619 Project - lots of credential flashing as if that can settle an intellectual debate.

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        2. Ivo Shandor was right. ✊‏ @LeeDowney 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @KatzOnEarth @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          Seems like "What is this garbage?" and "Does anyone actually study X subject" are not necessarily unreasonable or unconnected criticisms.

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        2. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          In my own criticisms of 1619, I didn't take that line because I think it's BS. Anyone can read books/research. It doesn't require a credential conferred by a guild.

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        3. Daniel Larison‏ @DanielLarison 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet

          Yes, anyone can research. But that requires that they do...research! Not just regurgitating a lot of lame nationalist talking points while refusing to engage with the scholarship they are denouncing. It is telling that they couldn’t or wouldn’t find people with history training

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        1. Diane‏ @DianeKnud7 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          The 1619 project has its issues, and historians duly noted them. The huge difference I see here is one is a commissioned report by the government and the other was for the NY Times. At this point I think we need a group of historians to do a government report on it all.

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        1. dougcl‏ @dougcldougcl 19 Jan 2021
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          There was an intellectual debate?

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        1. GCinDC‏ @grcanty 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          Reactions from McPherson, Wood et al to 1619 were deeply factual and substantive. The @nytimes responded with credential-flashing - critics “hadn’t published recently,” etc.

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        1. honestarguement‏ @honestarguemen1 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          I have seen quite the opposite. I have seen line-by-line rebuttals of the conclusions the 1619 project makes and why its wrong.... and the proponents of it had simply dismissed the criticism as coming from people who don't have a right to criticize it

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        2. Andrew Lebovich‏ @tweetsintheME 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          It’s not credential flashing to ask why a commission about the importance of accurate telling a if American history involved no professional historians of America.

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        3. Andrew Lebovich‏ @tweetsintheME 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @tweetsintheME @HeerJeet @DamonLinker

          Telling of, rather.

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