REVIEW: What I Learned Watching ‘The 1619 Project’ on Hulu (Episode 2)

Author’s Note / Disclaimer / Trigger warning: I haven’t yet read The 1619 Project. Not the award-winning essay collection from Nikole Hann-Jones. New York Times. Or the best-selling Random House anthology. Or the best-selling, award-winning children’s book for adults. I have not listened to the podcast and I do not intend to. When there are so many other ways to communicate with your audience, I don’t think it is necessary. Spend one’s precious time.

The same goes for you True The vast majority of Americans, and the majority of Americans of color, are happy to have them as their friends. That’s obvious, right? The vast majority of internet users have strong opinions on whether or not it is. The 1619 Project It should be taught in public school, with the majority of politicians and pundits defending or denouncing it on television. This is what often passes as public discourse in the digital age.—a shouting match among the passionately uninformed, while the People who are smarter than others (or value their sanity more than they care) Tune out and do nothing

What I do know is that America’s élite universities are among the most radical purveyors of anti-anti-segregationist racial sensitivity nonsense, and among the quickest to quash even the slightest dissent in the ranks. This is why it’s important to note that Numerous Histories Professors Yale, Princeton, Brown and Northwestern strongly condemned The 1619 Project because of its historical significance. “errors and distortions” is profoundly damning. I will take their word for this. 

I also know that anyone—Nikole Hannah-Jones, for example—who Prices a public library $900 per minute to tell an audience Of bourgeois liberals The United States is “one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world” Some people may not value historical accuracy as highly as other things. Ditto a cultural establishment that promotes her work on numerous platforms and showers her with awards. We might be meant to take her seriously, but maybe not literally. 

An honest person would not say something like that in public and claim it to be true. “a fact.” (Or Accept Believe in yourself “the zodiac.”) But that’s just how most Democratic politicians, journalists, and other professional left-wing activists who demand to be taken seriously communicate these days. The world is closing down. Democracy is ending. “Jim Crow on steroids.” No wonder so many of their kids have turned to Domestic terrorism. 

They lecture this bullshit at universities and applaud it during corporate-sponsored diversity summits. The video is now streaming on Hulu, a jointly-owned subsidiary of NBC Universal (and The Walt Disney Company). Because it’s what I get paid to do.