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1776 Commission?

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1776 Commission?

Post by TC Talks » Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:19 am

If you need a good laugh this morning read this... It's almost like Trump was talking to every stupid idea conservatives could come up with. This one tries to whitewash all the atrocities our country has done. In particular if revolves around rewriting the history of slavery and the McCarthy era. If you feel it's worth your time it's worth a good laugh. These guys are really nuts and we've got a few of them on the board.

This is like the bullshit they teach down at Hillsdale when the administration isn't trying to date the coeds.

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A report by President Trump’s 1776 Commission, established to promote “patriotic education,” was written without the input of any professional historians of the United States, and does not include a bibliography or list of citations.

But that doesn’t mean the 45-page report, which drew harsh criticism from scholars when it was released on Monday, doesn’t have sources. Far from a free-floating product of the Trump era, it draws on longstanding conservative talking points and a growing shelf of ideologically inflected scholarship and popular history books that aim to counter what it maintains is anti-American left-wing “historical revisionism.”

“The report seems to draw heavily from a rhetorical trick now quite popular on the right of reassigning slavery, racism, and fascism to the left,” Nicole Hemmer, a historian and the author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” said in an email. “But the underlying argument, that multiculturalism and liberation movements are fundamentally dangerous and un-American, has been a hallmark of conservative politics since at least the 1990s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/arts ... trump.html


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Re: 1776 Commission?

Post by paul8539 » Thu Jan 28, 2021 9:09 pm

OK, so what does (did?) the 1776 Commission really do?



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