Let's be clear: we're honestly getting pretty sick and tired of talking about Florida's cOnTrOvErSiAL new curriculum, the one that purportedly teaches students that slaves benefited from slavery but actually not only teaches no such thing, but teaches the exact opposite. We're sick and tired of it because we're sick and tired of Democrats and liberals and media (and Tim Scott, sadly) misrepresenting the curriculum, either out of ignorance or out of malicious intent to spread a false narrative.
So we have no choice but to keep talking about it. Because we don't like letting lying liars get away with their lies.
And now that we're talking about, let's talk about something that you might not know about. We didn't know about it, until it was recently brought to light by economic and political historian Phil Magness:
This is deeply ironic.
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) July 31, 2023
1619 Project adviser Ed Baptist's book "The Half Has Never Been Told" makes a nearly identical claim as the Florida curriculum regarding slaves who acquired skills. pic.twitter.com/mbgWXwxYic
Before we proceed, now seems like a good time to take a look at some of "1619 Project" architect Nikole Hannah-Jones' recent tweets about the Florida curriculum. They make the irony even richer:
The 1619 Project truly did break some people's minds. Sort of amazing as we head towards the four-year anniversary of its publication. Who could have predicted what we'd see in Florida and across this country. It reveals why the powerful have worked so hard to control narratives.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 22, 2023
The 1619 Project truly did break some people's minds. Sort of amazing as we head towards the four-year anniversary of its publication. Who could have predicted what we'd see in Florida and across this country. It reveals why the powerful have worked so hard to control narratives.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 22, 2023
Feel free to click on that tweet in order to see her whole thread, but if you're short on time, it effectively boils down to Nikole being angry that Florida students are learning that the Holocaust is unequivocally bad (true) but that American slavery had its good points (not true) and that prior to the Atlantic slave trade, African countries had not only actively participated in slave trades but also kidnapped and enslaved non-Africans (true). Nikole complains about people controlling narratives, but she's trying to control narratives by arguing against students learning a comprehensive history of the global slave trade.
So, just so y'all know where Little Miss 1619 Project is on Florida's curriculum. Nikole Hannah-Jones' magnum opus counted a book by Cornell University history professor and fellow historical-accuracy-challenged leftist Ed Baptist among its sources, but either she didn't vet him properly or she was fully aware of this and chose to ignore it:
Image 1: the Florida standards.
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) July 31, 2023
Image 2: Ed Baptist's book, p. 103 pic.twitter.com/87ioNkMWrA
Nice catch.
— Thaddeus Russell (@ThaddeusRussell) August 1, 2023
Very.
Yeah you are definitely not omitting context there.
— Dealing with Unreconstructed Buffoons (@Wolfefan1976) August 1, 2023
The context here is you don't understand the claims of either, which is strange given that they are almost identical.
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) August 1, 2023
This is reminiscent of the striking similarity between the contentious passage in the Florida curriculum and a passage in the AP African-American Studies curriculum — the curriculum that Ron DeSantis had rejected due to Critical Race Theory elements and that the Left — including Nikole Hannah-Jones — went to the mat so hard for:
Remember when Florida wouldn’t allow that AP African American Studies course because it focused too much on CRT and not enough on history, and the @WhiteHouse lost its mind?
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) July 27, 2023
Well, here is one of the standards considered “essential knowledge.”
See it here https://t.co/MFjfBjEFc9 pic.twitter.com/s8boDdYzks
The Left seems to be having a problem with intellectual consistency, though we have no doubt that, given enough time to come up with an explanation as to why it's not inconsistent for her to oppose the Florida curriculum but be OK with Baptist's claim, Nikole Hannah-Jones would come up with something very, very special.
1619 project advisers book has language very close to the language produced by the Florida working group https://t.co/N36qiNzSWa
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) July 31, 2023
This is all just so interesting, isn't it?
The whole thing is Calvinball.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 31, 2023
The rules keep changing and evolving, but never in a way that benefits conservatives (or tells the truth, for that matter). And that's by design.
So yeah, we're not gonna be able to stop talking about this for a while.
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Related:
Nikole Hannah-Jones throws lie about Ron DeSantis into her mix of lies about American history
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