[Republican Wildcat]

“Out of slavery,” one Times editor explained, “grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.” Even the American Revolution was fought mainly to preserve slavery.

Not a single, solitary word of that has a grain a truth to it. Economic growth was greatly inhibited by slavery.

[Steely Tom]

One of the clearest ways to know that an organization, or a ideology — or for that matter a political party — is illegitimate: its supporters feel the need to re-write its own history.

[PGR88]

The idea that slavery produced “economic might” is simply laughable.

It was a failed economic system, enforced on individuals by state power, to benefit a relatively few people. It didn’t produce great industry, it was commodity-based on a few agricultural crops.

By 1860, the North had 2.5X the railroad length. The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3,200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South. Only about 40 percent of the Northern population was still engaged in agriculture by 1860, as compared to 84 percent of the South.

[RayChuang88]

They should just shelve the entire idea of the 1619 Project altogether.

[cmj328]

This is a very important editorial.

[C210N]

I’m more inclined to check out the 1620 project - the Mayflower Compact, and the history of early American Voting.

[M1903A1]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

George Orwell

[Steven Tyler]

Fake News New York Times.
Messed up their “facts”
The Civil War started with five slave states in the Union.
Maybe, the war was not about Slaves?????

At the start of the Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states. ..... The slave states that stayed in the Union, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky (called border states) remained seated in the U.S. Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_states_and_free_states#:~:text=The%20slave%20states%20that%20stayed,was%20already%20under%20Union%20control.

[Richard Axtell]

Surprise! The Party of Fraud supports the publishing of fraud, the 1619 Project, proven by its author’s mendacity, displayed by this fallacious walk back. Fraud.

[StAnDeliver]

She dresses and is made up like a clown, intentionally. She has clearly had a mental break in the recent past -- probably after dating a white guy and getting dumped.

My understanding is that she was particularly demoralized when her NYT African-American editor Dean Baquet confessed her whole 1916 ZobZobZipZip Potato was a fake, a contrivance solely to undermine Trump.

[a fool in paradise]

Stalinists lie. Always

Stop using what they said against them. Waaaaa