A Critique of the 1619 Project
I come bearing a gift.
In no way would I say the project is useless, but teaching this before one has a solid foundation in US history would be a disservice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-16…
I would say it is useless.
The 1619 Project is completely useless revisionist history concocted by a woefully disingenuous author that more than a dozen Pulitzer prize winners have spoken in protest against. It is garbage, and anyone who believes it is either flat out unintelligent or at least poorly read. To anyone who wants to learn about less known but historically important subjects as this claims to be, I would recommend reading The Red Decade by Eugene Lyons to cover something vastly under taught in the US.
They’re basically rewriting history. It’s garbage.
1619 project belongs in the fiction category.
It’s nearly as disingenuous as a North Korean school textbook. Yet it’s woke, so let’s all lie and pretend we believe it (oh wait, kids might not get the joke......)
The people pushing this in schools deserve jail time
My younger brother attends one of the top NE boarding schools, and in his US history class, his first or second reading was the factually inaccurate essay from the 1619 project (before it was revised, too, apparently). He said it was actually a very good essay, but that he would have liked it a lot more if it wasn't factually inaccurate. Still, he said his teacher was a PHD with published research – who evidently didn't see it as imprudent to give her class with an essay with several historical fallacies (or at least, exaggerations).
I don't know if all of the classes at the school include that reading, but if I learned one thing, it's that liberal teachers at liberal institutions are *not afraid* to include this revisionist history in their curriculums.
The recently-written NYT OP-ed critiquing the article did a solid job of summing everything up – in essence, the ambition of the project (which was a nice idea – Black people are very much overlooked in US history) went too far, as it got to the point where true history was ignored. The comments section of the article, too, also has some interesting perspectives.
Im truth, history needs (and is) to be more of a science than humanities.
All the revisionist historians need to make sure that they are teaching a particular "perspective/interpretation/opinion" not the literal truth.
My NE boarding school US history teacher was pretty good at it. I don't get why so many people fail to do this.
Omg you guys are totally not woke...I personally had AOC as my high school calc teacher and she taught me all about this! Yaaaasss
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WTF?
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