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    1. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

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      This claim is staggering. Because I wrote an essay arguing that The 1619 Project was great in parts, but was wrong to argue that 1619 was our "true founding," I take exception to it. My essay is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/ … Was I duped by "the right" or duping others? A thread: https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1306941913556283401 …

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    2. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

      Conor Friedersdorf Retweeted CNN

      Nikole Hannah Jones repeats this claim on CNN, where the interviewer credulously accepts her framing that the right is misrepresenting the projecthttps://twitter.com/CNN/status/1307029623943831552?s=20 …

      Conor Friedersdorf added,

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      The 1619 Project "does not argue that 1776 was not the founding of the country, but what it does argue for is that we have largely treated slavery as an asterisk to the American story,” creator @nhannahjones says as President Trump has railed against it. https://cnn.it/2ZPdeoS  pic.twitter.com/2AR3Xqlvj0
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      Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

      Here she is calling Ben Shapiro a liar and saying that the wrongheadedness of his claim is easily verified. Am I going crazy? I thought. So I went back to check myself to make sure I didn't error in my essay. What I found is quite damning.pic.twitter.com/43FatPnJFc

      1:31 PM - 18 Sep 2020
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        1. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          There is, first, the original display copy: "The 1619 project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American Slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding”

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        2. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          Numerous mainstream and left of center publications, as well as right of center publications, used that characterization *because that is what the NYT Magazine published.* Here is The Nation, not thinking that was factually wrong:pic.twitter.com/hJNK67FfZO

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        3. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          Here is The Daily Kos, no one's idea of "the right"pic.twitter.com/BJhri5UHgs

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        4. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          At first I thought, NHJ should just say that the display copy wasn't quite right, and she intended to argue something different. As a journalist I can sympathize with copy written by editors that I wish was just slightly different. It happens! But.

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        5. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          How do you call other people liars who repeat an easily falsifiable claim when you have characterized the matter this way?pic.twitter.com/tXdbsGqeA2

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        6. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          Or when you give an interview to Niemen Lab and say:pic.twitter.com/j4E14w9nvT

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        7. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          People like me, who argued in good faith with the ideas that the New York Times Magazine and Nikole Hannah Jones put forth, do not deserve to be tarred as dupes or liars or sloppy for accurately characterizing their original presentation, now that they are walking it back.

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        8. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 18 Sep 2020

          pic.twitter.com/wGc8JbtNkj

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        1. Forrest Chump‏ @ForrestChump_ 18 Sep 2020
          Replying to @conor64

          The 1619 Project is starting to become like Springfield in The Simpsons, in that it always possesses whatever attributes are necessary for that particular episode. The project is whatever it needs to be for the person making the argument.

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        2. murraythecat‏ @murraythecat3 18 Sep 2020
          Replying to @ForrestChump_ @conor64

          ...which is kinda sad, because if done differently (with more academic rigor and intellectual honesty) the 1619 concept could have been a wonderful teaching tool and a benchmark series of essays.

          5 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
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