{"id":1834562,"date":"2023-02-04T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834562"},"modified":"2023-02-04T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T10:08:13","slug":"review-what-i-learned-watching-the-1619-project-on-hulu-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-what-i-learned-watching-the-1619-project-on-hulu-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: What I Learned Watching &#8216;The 1619 Project&#8217; on Hulu (Episode 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freview-what-i-learned-watching-the-1619-project-on-hulu-episode-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><em><strong>Author&#8217;s Note \/ Disclaimer \/ Trigger warning<\/strong><\/em>: <em>I haven\u2019t yet read <\/em>The 1619 Project<em>. Not the award-winning essay collection from Nikole Hann-Jones. <\/em>New York Times<em>. Or the best-selling Random House anthology. Or the best-selling, award-winning children&#8217;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&#8217;t think it is necessary. <\/em>Spend one&#8217;s precious time.<\/p>\n<p><em>The same goes for you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/news-polls\/reuters-ipsos-poll-critical-race-theory-07152021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">True<\/a>\u00a0The vast majority of Americans, and the majority of Americans of color, are happy to have them as their friends. That&#8217;s obvious, right? The vast majority of internet users have strong opinions on whether or not it is. <\/em>The 1619 Project<em> 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.<\/em><em>\u2014a shouting match among the passionately uninformed, while the\u00a0<\/em>People who are smarter than others (or value their sanity more than they care) <em>Tune out and do nothing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I do know is that America&#8217;s \u00e9lite 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&#8217;s important to note that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/20\/magazine\/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Numerous<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/174140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Histories<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/03\/06\/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professors<\/a>\u00a0Yale, Princeton, Brown and Northwestern strongly condemned The 1619 Project because of its historical significance. &#8220;errors and distortions&#8221;\u00a0is\u00a0profoundly damning. I will take their word for this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>I also know that anyone\u2014Nikole Hannah-Jones, for example\u2014who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/virginia-public-library-dropped-40k-on-speech-from-1619-project-creator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prices<\/a> a public library $900 per minute\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1572387236985081857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tell an audience<\/a> Of bourgeois liberals\u00a0<\/em>The United States is &#8220;one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world&#8221; Some people may not value historical accuracy as highly as other things. Ditto a cultural\u00a0establishment that promotes her work on numerous platforms and\u00a0showers her with awards.\u00a0We might be meant to take her seriously, but maybe not literally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An honest person would not say something like that in public and claim it to be true. &#8220;a fact.&#8221; (Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/11\/nikole-hannah-jones-keeps-her-eyes-on-the-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accept<\/a> Believe in yourself &#8220;the zodiac.&#8221;)\u00a0But that&#8217;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. &#8220;Jim Crow on steroids.&#8221; No wonder so many of their kids have\u00a0turned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/parody\/analysis-we-need-a-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-rich-white-liberals-having-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domestic terrorism<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s what I get paid to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, the award-winning journalist, describes her mixed-racing uprising as the child of a white mother and a black father. She contrasts the divergent lives of her maternal grandfather, who was &#8220;designated male and white,&#8221; with her paternal grandmother, who was &#8220;designated female and black,&#8221; and proceeds to interview a &#8220;reproductive justice scholar&#8221; about the concept of race in American and how it is &#8220;actually very silly.&#8221; Indeed.<br \/>\nThe post REVIEW: What I Learned Watching &#8216;The 1619 Project&#8217; on Hulu (Episode 2) appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1833440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6962,13479,10264,13478,6378,4146,7289,14140],"class_list":["post-1834562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-the","tag-13479","tag-episode","tag-hulu","tag-learned","tag-project","tag-review","tag-watching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}