Comments on: The greatest Pulitzer since Duranty: the 1619 Project

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 07 May 2020 02:25:23 +0000

The NY Post is not a fan of the Pulitzer award this year.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/the-only-pulitzer-the-1619-project-deserved-was-for-fiction/

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 07 May 2020 02:24:28 +0000

Richard Aubrey on May 6, 2020 at 4:14 pm said:
That’s what the dinner table is for: “The teacher said WHAT?”.
* * *
Indeed. But most parents never hear what the teachers are saying, although that could be for lack of asking.
While I acknowledge the hardships caused by closing the schools, it may be the best thing that ever happened to some kids — if their parents are monitoring their online classes and homework.

By: Michael Reed

Michael Reed — Wed, 06 May 2020 22:40:01 +0000

Well, with the USSR dead and gone, where else would Amerika’s finest comrades find educational materials to create their own Young Pioneers, eh? Somebody has to do it, and the New York Times & Pulitzer are there for them! (They’d go with PRC’s “Red Guard” material but at the moment that would be inconvenient.)

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 06 May 2020 20:14:49 +0000

That’s what the dinner table is for: “The teacher said WHAT?”.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:39:54 +0000

“Nikole Hannah-Jones: The lead writer on the 1619 Project says the United States’ founding ideals of equality and liberty, expressed in the Declaration of Independence, were a “lie” to the founders who birthed them, but ultimately realized by African Americans who embraced and fought for them, largely alone.”

Largely alone? If it weren’t for white people (abolitionists) we’d still have slavery, or at least Jim Crow.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Wed, 06 May 2020 17:26:49 +0000

There is substantial hard evidence that racial distinctions the 1619 Project is premised on have no empirical foundation. They are social constructs based on superficial appearance.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20010211&slug=race11m

Moreover,
Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

Of course, hard evidence is one thing, enjoying grievance tingles is another.

By: R.C.

R.C. — Wed, 06 May 2020 15:19:27 +0000

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

By: Dick Illyes

Dick Illyes — Wed, 06 May 2020 09:17:00 +0000

Have beliefs become a Class marker? Elites have always been obsessed with Class identification, and according to Rob Henderson they have replaced material things with beliefs as class markers. If you are so well off that your beliefs don’t have to have any connection to reality you can virtue and class signal via your beliefs and feel that great sense of being among those at the top.

https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure-class-a-status-update/

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 06 May 2020 00:19:10 +0000

Of course it’s been a trend for decades, since the ’60s at least. But it really metastasized in recent years.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 06 May 2020 00:13:00 +0000

I think it’s important for those who have not succumbed to this propaganda to recognize that an important element of it is racism. The past decade or so has seen the enshrinement of racism against white people as a central value of much of the left. We can’t stop it but it’s important to keep our heads clear about what’s going on.