The Atlantic
•US Politics
US Politics
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Frida Ghitis: The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, a series of essays about slavery, sparked heated debate.
She says the response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests has been met with censorship and censorship.
Ghitis says the project did provoke hysterical reactions, but it did inspire illuminating conversations, including among critics.
Frida Ghitis: The 1619 Project was criticized for being too simplistic about American history.
She says the project's conceit was to trace slavery’s legacy through American history; it seems clear why Black people's fight for equality would be main theme.
Ghitis says the content mill PragerU's animated videos are comically ahistorical; they don't reflect historical facts.
She writes: The objective behind this campaign was not to depoliticize classroom history, but to make it as ideologically right-wing as possibleGhitis: Better students learn falsehoods and come to the correct political conclusions than learn historical facts that could be had.
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