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NEW YORKBemoaning the papers recent series focusing on the role slavery played in American history, Newt Gingrich slammed The New York Times 1619 Project Monday as shameless abolitionist propaganda.
What were seeing is the tragic decline of The New York Times into a propaganda paper thats clearly operating in the pocket of pro-abolitionist causes, said the former House Speaker, noting that the project amounted to an ideological crusade that put the newspaper in the hands of abolitionist radicals like Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown.
What happened to giving the public all the information about slaverys benefits and drawbacks and trusting them to decide? Apparently, that sort of faith in your readers to understand the real consequences of outlawing slavery is something the Times no longer possesses. In fact, if theyre going to be putting out biased nonsense like this, the newspapers editors might as well have left-wing lunatics like William Lloyd Garrison writing up their anti-slavery screed for them.
Gingrich added that missteps like this are why these days he gets the majority of his news from outlets like the Atlanta Southern Confederacy.
https://www.theonion.com/newt-gingrich-slams-new-york-times-1619-project-as-sh-1837374390
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)I was really about to write a scathing responsive message until I saw it was The Onion.
Oh Lord, please let 2020 be a year where it will be easier to detect political satire so I don't get worked up.
Wounded Bear
(58,668 posts)IIRC, Newt penned a series of "If the South Won the Civil War" alternative history books. I assume he meant them as fiction, but you never know with these guys.
treestar
(82,383 posts)And that is exactly what Newt would have said had he lived back then!
Eugene
(61,900 posts)Gingrich called the 1619 Project a lie. Look at those bad countries over there that still practice slavery, he said.
Newt Gingrich says slavery needs to be put 'in context', calls 1619 project a 'lie'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/19/newt-gingrich-calls-new-york-times-1619-project-a-lie/2049622001/
When reality is this f***ed up, The Onion needs to up its game.