1/x Calling out lies is not silence. NYT explicitly admits the 1619 project is revisionist history: “It aims to reframe our country’s history.” It is filled with serious errors—which have been called out by top historians—but the NYT doesn’t care. You’re not after truth.... https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1302612605014597633 …
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4/x “...ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.” Academic work should face scrutiny. Should aspire to accuracy. Not at the NYT. Weiss explained, “If a person’s ideology is in keeping w/ the new orthodoxy, they & their work remain unscrutinized...”
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5/x “...Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome.... “The paper of record is, more and more, the record of those living in a distant galaxy, one whose concerns are profoundly removed from the lives of most people...”
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6/x “...This is a galaxy in which...the Soviet space program is lauded for its ‘diversity’; the doxxing of teenagers in the name of justice is condoned; and the worst caste systems in human history includes the United States alongside Nazi Germany.”
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7/x Here are some of the lies in the 1619 Project. In your own words: "[America’s] founding ideals were false when they were written." "The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal & a lie."
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8/x NYT: "[O]ne of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare independence was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery." ALL FALSE. And thoroughly debunked by accomplished historians like Gordon Wood & James McPherson.
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9/x So, no, I don’t want to “cancel” the NYT. I want y’all to stop behaving like Marxist propagandists, stop peddling falsehoods to children, and behave instead like real journalists.
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Ted's panicking.
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A little early to be drinking, Ted
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