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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5038389" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I googled "what the 1619 project gets wrong" and at the top is an article on Politico written by a history professor at Northwestern.  He fact checked the 1619 project and just a quick glance at what he wrote points outs firstly that the 1619 project states that the colonists went to war in the Revolution to protect slavery.  He has other prominent historians agreeing with him.  Don't get lost in the weeds, that was just the first of historic inaccuracies he points out.  The thing is the the authors of the 1619 Project want to paint a narrative that indoctrinates kids and get them to believe we must totally remake society.  And I imagine in the current climate guys like this professor who point out inaccuracies will be slammed, if not already, as racist.</p></blockquote><p></p>