{"id":365028,"date":"2021-11-10T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-times-latest-bid-to-double-down-on-rewriting-us-history\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T01:45:23","slug":"ny-times-latest-bid-to-double-down-on-rewriting-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-times-latest-bid-to-double-down-on-rewriting-us-history\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY Times&#8217; latest bid to double down on rewriting US history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NY Times&#8217; latest bid to double down on rewriting US history<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some people just don\u2019t take correction well. The\u00a0New York Times Magazine\u00a0was rebuked two summers ago for the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html\">1619 Project<\/a>, an essay collection that proposed, as the\u00a0Times itself announced, \u201cto reframe American history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country.\u201d Now the magazine\u2019s editor, Jake Silverstein, has doubled down on that in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/09\/magazine\/1619-project-us-history.html\">a new piece <\/a>this week.<\/p>\n<p>From the outset, the idea was not simply to broaden our understanding of America\u2019s founding and history, but to replace it.<\/p>\n<p>That was always wrong. America was not unique because of slavery, which predates recorded history and existed all around the world well after 1776. Greeks, Romans, Aztecs, Mayans, Egyptians, Chinese, Russians, Koreans, Turks, Arabs and many African societies had slaves. The word \u201cslave\u201d derives from \u201cSlav.\u201d In the century after Columbus, more Russian slaves were carried across the Black Sea to the Ottoman Empire than African slaves across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was around half of the slave trade out of Africa, and at least 90 percent of that trade went to places outside the United States. The Spanish brought African slaves to Georgia and Florida nearly a century before 1619, and into the 1640s, there were more British slaves held in Africa than African slaves held in British colonies.<\/p>\n<p>What made America unique was its democratic system of limited government and its ideals of individual rights \u2014 both of which started in Virginia in 1619 with the first elected legislature in the Western Hemisphere. From the beginning, America struggled with the fact that slavery did not conform with the ideals of the Bill of Rights, and ultimately fought a Civil War over it in which hundreds of thousands died to free 4 million black Americans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"&quot;The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story&quot; by Nikole Hannah-Jones, releasing Nov. 16.\" class=\"wp-image-20090978\" width=\"321\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=642 642w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=482 481w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=321 321w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 160w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Fall-Books.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story\u201d by Nikole Hannah-Jones will be released Nov. 16.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">One World via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 1619 Project had more specific problems. Its organizer and lead essayist, Nikole Hannah-Jones, claimed without evidence that \u201cone of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.\u201d She waved off warnings from the historian reviewing this claim before publication. Under a barrage of criticism from a Who\u2019s Who of leading academic historians, the\u00a0Times\u00a0first wrote a lengthy defense and later grudgingly reworded this, but both Hannah-Jones and Silverstein refuse to call this a \u201ccorrection.\u201d They also quietly deleted the reference to \u201c1619 as our true founding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silverstein now frames the\u00a0Times\u00a0retreat under fire as a \u201cclarification.\u201d Hannah-Jones, who has not written a bylined piece in the\u00a0Times\u00a0in over a year, continues on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to aggressively defend the claim and keeps trying to dig up historical support \u2014 an implicit admission of the homework she didn\u2019t do the first time around. Meanwhile, other requests for corrections to the work of Hannah-Jones and other essays in the project, such as its shoddy economic history, have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Why have they dug in so far on a two-year-old piece of magazine journalism? Partly for prestige: The 1619 Project won a Pulitzer in spite of its documented inaccuracies. Partly for institutional politics: Hannah-Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to wield outsize influence in the employee-driven ideological infighting that gets people fired from the\u00a0Times for crossing progressive dogmas and taboos.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Black-Colleges-Future.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Nikole Hannah-Jones\" class=\"wp-image-20090984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Black-Colleges-Future.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Black-Colleges-Future.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Black-Colleges-Future.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Nikole Hannah-Jones created the 1619 Project, which won a Pulitzer Prize.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/John Minchillo, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But a big part of the answer is that the\u00a0Times\u00a0is deeply invested in pushing the 1619 Project into schools in order to win the future for Hannah-Jones\u2019 particular race-focused ideology. Doing so, even after Virginia voters punished Democrats in a campaign that heavily contested the influence of Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project in schools, means never admitting error.<\/p>\n<p>Painting the American Revolution as a fight <em>for <\/em>slavery, in the teeth of the factual record and the scholarly consensus, is not incidental to that ideology; it is central. As Silverstein notes with pride, \u201cthousands of educators in all 50 states have made use of . . . educational materials\u201d based on the 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones has a book version (\u201cA New Origin Story\u201c) and a 1619 Project children\u2019s book coming out next week. It\u2019s a profitable brand as well as propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Schools should prefer history written by professional historians who have their facts straight to agitprop churned out by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers who won\u2019t admit when they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @BaseballCrank<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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