Can you believe it, you guys? After all this time, Nikole Hannah-Jones is still having to defend herself and her “1619 Project”!
The audacity of the Times's description of the 1619 Project still amazes me: "[Slavery] is the country’s very origin.
Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional…"https://t.co/9yhhAQGmki pic.twitter.com/LCtOwY9Bxw— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) October 18, 2021
The central thesis that buttressed her entire masterpiece may have been wrong and stupid, but that’s no reason for people to criticize her.
Some tidbits from the #1619Project book publishing Nov. 16: In early 1775, James Madison reported hearing a rumor that British Parliament had introduced a bill to emancipate the colonies' enslaved.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
A report from the Virginia House of Burgesses accused British officials of contemplating "a most diabolical" scheme to "offer Freedom to our slaves, and turn them against their masters."
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
"All over Virginia, observers noted, the governor's freedom offer turned neutrals and even loyalists in patriots," @woodyholtonusc in Forced Founders.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
The Somerset ruling did not apply to the colonies, but "colonial masters felt shocked by the implication that their property system defied English traditions of liberty," historian Alan Taylor in "The Internal Enemy." The ruling was reported in all the colonial newspapers.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
"Thomas Jefferson spoke for many other white Americans when he stated, in the largest and angriest complaint in the Declaration of Independence, that Dunmore's emancipation proclamation was a major cause of the American Revolution, " — @woodyholtonusc
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
"In one sense, slaveholding Patriots went to war in 1775 and declared independence in 1776 to defend their rights to own slaves," — historian Michael Groth.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
Basically:
I will say this once more: I did not sit down one day and decide to make up something about the American Revolution and publish it in the paper of record.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) October 17, 2021
We’re willing to believe that. It’s entirely possible that it took her several days to decide.
And yet here we are. Lol. https://t.co/J7hFBZB36e
— FSakes (@FSakes1000) October 18, 2021
Except that's exactly what ended up happening. Weird. https://t.co/oJxeaWd9Il
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 18, 2021
So weird.
It's obviously possible that your original claim was based on ignorance instead of malicious intent, but enough people have corrected you by now to where maintaining this claim by citing selective evidence/quotes is clearly dishonest. https://t.co/ECW797SizH
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 18, 2021
Given the frequency with which Nikole Hannah-Jones has acted both ignorantly and maliciously, we wouldn’t be at all surprised if the “1619 Project” was born out of ignorance and malice.
You either maliciously did or did so out of ignorance, but that's exactly what you did. https://t.co/mdM4qZaFXG
— Cozy Gamer Gimp (@GrumpyCatterman) October 18, 2021
She knows it, too.
Although I should note that even one of the fact-checkers for the 1619 project (& generally a supporter of it) Northwestern History Professor Leslie Harris explicitly told the NYT and NHJ that this central claim was wrong before it was published. pic.twitter.com/Vx0uQaxL50
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 18, 2021
Narrator: Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn’t care if her central claim was wrong. In fact, she never cared.
This level of defensiveness is pretty telling, if you ask me. Not something I'd ever expect to see someone write if it were outrageously untrue. pic.twitter.com/9fpJJxuUsB
— Noam "MF Blum" (@neontaster) October 18, 2021
The work that made her famous is based on a lie. You’d better believe she’s going to get extremely defensive.
You kind of did tho pic.twitter.com/2sHDkYguoN
— Critical Race Theory L’s (@CRTPostingLs) October 18, 2021
— litpixel (@litpixelbtc21) October 18, 2021
Narrator: She did. pic.twitter.com/pPXBCaXlLP
— Vivek (@VerverkS) October 18, 2021
I kinda think you did though. https://t.co/uSPPa31597
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) October 18, 2021
Yeah, but you did though. https://t.co/dV5d9W656n
— Taz (@ItsTaz1989) October 18, 2021
Yes you did. https://t.co/D2jpKtoHCk
— John M. Reeves (@reeveslawstl) October 18, 2021
Yes you did… and here it is. https://t.co/VAu3LisyC7 pic.twitter.com/3a8M20SFOr
— Some Pleb (@UKCryptoPleb) October 18, 2021
She lied to everyone about the American Revolution and she’s lying to everyone about the “1619 Project.”
*The tweet below contains misleading information* https://t.co/bujjLm3Hew
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) October 18, 2021
Where are the Twitter Honesty Police when you need them?
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