How the 1619 Project Deceives. "Forgetting vs. Overcoming: Abuses of History and the 1619 Project"

The #1619Project [...] teaches students the wrong way to go about remembering. It abuses remembering [& forgets] #America’s history of reconciliation and unity on race. [It frames] the nation’s identity as irredeemably stained and systemically, irreparably flawed. One must ask, for what purpose?

By scrubbing racial reconciliation out of US history, the 1619 Project misrepresents [...] forces at work besides race.

The 1619 Project purports to correct “a history that never happened.” But it offers a new history that never happened by systematically excluding any traces of black-white unity, cooperation, and common goals from America’s history, including in the abolition movement, the #CivilWar, the Civil Rights Movement, or even today.

The general problem of historical #reductionism plagues a whole line of 19th-century German Enlightenment philosophers of history, from Kant [(in some areas)] to Hegel to Marx. Like the 1619 Project, they all have tunnel vision, using interesting facts and insights in the service of theories that try to reduce the causes of history to [...] of a single thing, while ignoring the infinite variety of other causes at work.

https://quillette.com/2023/03/02/forgetting-vs-overcoming-abuses-of-history-and-the-1619-project/

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