{"id":1859607,"date":"2023-02-25T05:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1859607"},"modified":"2023-02-25T05:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:07:29","slug":"review-what-i-learned-watching-the-1619-project-on-hulu-episodes-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-what-i-learned-watching-the-1619-project-on-hulu-episodes-3-6\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: What I Learned Watching &#8216;The 1619 Project&#8217; on Hulu (Episodes 3-6)"},"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-episodes-3-6%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=1859607&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&#8217;t yet read <\/em>The 1619 Project<em>. The essay collection of Nikole Hannah Jones and the award-winning essay collection <\/em>New York Times<em>. Or the best-selling Random House Anthology. Or the award-winning and best-selling book for children. The podcast is not something I&#8217;ve listened to and I don&#8217;t plan 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>\u00a0For the vast majority Americans, including for the vast majority black Americans. 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 often what passes as public discourse today in the digital age.<\/em><em>\u2014a shouting match among the passionately uninformed, while the\u00a0<\/em>People who don&#8217;t know better, 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. The fact 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\">Several<\/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>Serious people wouldn&#8217;t claim to have said something so absurd in public. &#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\">Receipt<\/a> To believe in &#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 in peril. &#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\">Terrorism in the home<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They lecture this crap in universities and applaud it during corporate diversity summits. The video is now streaming on Hulu, a jointly owned subsidiary NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company. It&#8217;s a job I get paid to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out the Nikole Hannah-Jones line about America being &#8220;one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world&#8221; wasn&#8217;t some over-the-top Bidenesque ad lib in the heat of the moment. She repeats it verbatim in The 1619 Project Hulu series, several minutes into to the fourth episode about why capitalism is racist and bad.<br \/>\nThe post REVIEW: What I Learned Watching &#8216;The 1619 Project&#8217; on Hulu (Episodes 3-6) 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":[6962,13219,13479,12259,13478,6378,4146,7289,14140],"class_list":["post-1859607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-the","tag-3-6","tag-13479","tag-episodes","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\/1859607","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=1859607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859607\/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=1859607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}