Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias The 1619 Project's architect once likened the New York Times to a slave master's house and her role their as dismantling that house. That strikes me as overly harsh in the way Noah is talking about, albeit with regard to the NYT rather than America. I think his point is, — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias The point is that it treated 1619 as the symbolic "true founding" not that it was a literal claim, whatever that would mean. Many of us instead believe 1776 was the true symbolic founding in addition to being the literal one. If you would like another example I can provide one: — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@ijbailey @Noahpinion @mattyglesias when you make these sweeping and extreme statements that cast America, or the NYT, as symbolically defined by white supremacy more than anything else, it's flattening and ahistorical and alienating in a kind of reverse version of conservative whitewashing and ignoring the ugly — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2021