tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8418644761080888058..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Speaking Truth to the 1619 ProjectStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42661081977469517492020-10-19T01:40:20.567-07:002020-10-19T01:40:20.567-07:00Quick quiz everyone: when was slavery abolished in...Quick quiz everyone: when was slavery abolished in Europe?<br /><br />Answer: in France, Belgium, Netherlands,... and West Germany with the overthrow of the National Socialists in 1945. In Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia...and Russia with the overthrow of the International Socialists in 1991.<br /><br />The USA fought two wars to end slavery, one in 1861 and one in 1941.ErisGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09383064735664269791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86411630457702501562020-10-18T12:49:39.144-07:002020-10-18T12:49:39.144-07:00It proves that either the author is trying to use ...It proves that either the author is trying to use this to extort OR that Charles Murray was right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-20195631511782283032020-10-18T09:26:12.511-07:002020-10-18T09:26:12.511-07:00Not to put too fine a point on it, Hannah-Jones is...Not to put too fine a point on it, Hannah-Jones is an ignorant twit. Her [ahem] contribution merely rises to the level of restating in more-or-less complete sentences the "Brief History of Civilization According to 'Rev' Al":<br /><br />"We [Subsaharan Africans] taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it. Do some cracker come and tell you, 'Well my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of, that means their forefathers was crooks."<br />--- "Rev" Al Sharpton, 1994<br /><br />It's worth noting that serial liar and tax cheat Sharpton served as President Lightworker's "Ambassador to the Black Community" (WSJ, 2010). Intellectual birds of a feather...trigger warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80262656684115932352020-10-18T08:08:53.306-07:002020-10-18T08:08:53.306-07:00Hymowitz aside, I went to the link for Bret Stephe...Hymowitz aside, I went to the link for Bret Stephens’ piece, and the final paragraph is telling:<br /><br />“All the more so as journalists, in the United States and abroad, come under relentless political assault from critics who accuse us of being fake, biased, partisan and an arm of the radical left. Many of these attacks are baseless. Some of them are not. Through its overreach, the 1619 Project has given critics of The Times a gift.”<br /><br />Wrong again, Bret. The Leftist duplicity of the American mainstream Enemedia is a feature, not a bug. Most of the “attacks” journalists face are not baseless. The coverage of Donald Trump is a self-evident disgrace.<br /><br />I’ve come to despise Bret Stephens as much as I do everyone else at the NYT. Regardless of their their labeling (Stephens, Brooks and Douthat are supposedly “conservative” voices), they all have a uniform condescension — a sneering tone — with everything they write. And it doesn’t stop there. The “conservative” intelligentsia (Kristol, Will, Goldberg, Williamson, et al) are just as bad. What are they conserving? National Review is a joke, with the same problem — a snotty, snobby attitude toward 90% of the country, whom they view as gauche and effectively unworthy of, well, much of anything. You know... the people in flyover country. The losers left to live in the neoliberal hell the Ruling Class hath wrought. Excepting themselves, of course.<br /><br />Journalism (the chattering class) has no credibility today. They are still harkening back to “the good of’ days,” a bygone era of standards and status not seen in 50 years. The 1619 Project was Nikole Hannah-Jones’ high watermark, and it was a bald-faced lie. Stephens spends most of his column apologizing for it, heaping more praise (as if more praise is necessary). Anything to avoid being called a racist meanie. That’s where journalism finds itself today. That’s who Bret Stephens is. And it’s not baseless. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91896633028237896832020-10-18T06:47:07.450-07:002020-10-18T06:47:07.450-07:00She's obviously not read the Bible, wherein th...She's obviously not read the Bible, wherein the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, and the Romans who enslaved pretty much everyone else... But HEY!, it's the NYT, and it gives me one more opportunity to day that I despise, detest, and distrust the NYT. (The WaPoo, too!)<br /><br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com