Ted CruzVerified account

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 …

2/x ...you’re engaged in propaganda. In the words of a former NYT editorial board member, “a new consensus has emerged...at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

3/x Why should the false revisionist history not be used as the basis of K-12 education across the nation? Not because of “cancel culture,” which you support. But because it wrong & deliberately deceptive. As your former board member put it, “history itself is one more...”

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...”

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...”