Motus Mentis

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1. Jason says

   Alas, in my opinion this minority report is wholly inadequate to repairing the damage. Only a heartfelt mea culpa by the NYT editors and publishers can get back on the rails this now year-long train wreck, which has been fueled by remarkable arrogance and cowardice. The 1619 Project was doomed from the get-go, due to its completely ahistorical and tendentious premise that slavery defines the American Story. Any high school civics or history teacher worth his or her salt would have tut-tutted such a thesis and asked the well-meaning but ill-informed student proposing it to be less Manichean. Yet perceptive journalists at the world’s premier newspaper, who surely knew better, nonetheless looked the other way and allowed this rubbish to receive a green light. Perhaps they were no match for ideologues like Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose shamelessness apparently knows no bounds. And after the inevitable pushback by critics, the Times engaged in subsequent revisions and denials that would have warmed Orwell’s heart. A dispiriting spectacle – harbinger? – to contemplate as we potentially approach Year Zero.

   Anyway, on a lighter note I hope your rehabilitation and recovery Malcolm is proceeding expeditiously, and that you’ll be picking up an instrument soon so that we can get an encore to your “Heroes.” I would suggest “Suffragette City”!

   Posted October 13, 2020 at 7:37 pm | Permalink