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Related: The War on History Is a War on Democracy [...]Last November, five days after the latest Russian memory law emerged from a presidential committee, the American president, Donald Trump, created the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Its “1776 Report,” published just as Trump’s term came to an end in January, defined its task as the “restoration of American education.” The report responded to the 1619 Project, an attempt to bring the history of slavery closer to the center of national narratives, which this magazine published in 2019. June,20 21 https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=164652718
The 1776 Report is a propaganda piece written by the 1776 Commission, published in the last few days of the Trump administration.[1] Its purpose is to facilitate "patriotic education", that is to help brainwash American students with white supremacist and rabidly anti-liberal/anti-communist version of US history in line with the conservative correctness agenda.
Contents 1 History 1.1 Members of the Commission 2 Contents 2.1 Chapter IV: Challenge to America's principles 3 As Scholarship 4 Summary 5 References
History
The 1776 Commission was an advisory committee established by Trump. Trump had referenced "patriotic education" as a priority of his several times in the autumn of 2020,[2][3] and likely established the commission within months of the end of his term. The establishment of the Commission (and the eventual publication of the Report) was seemingly a response to the Black Lives Matter movement in general and The New York Times' 1619 Project in particular; the latter being a collection of essays that frame American history in the context of Black slavery and civil rights movements.
The Commission was disbanded and the Report was revoked on President Joe Biden's inauguration day.[4]
Members of the Commission
The Commission did not have any professional historians who specialized in United States history.[5] A few members are tangentially qualified - a few academics here, a constitutional lawyer there - but most are pundits or politicians. The Commission included:[1]
* Larry Arnn, committee chair and president of Hillsdale College (a private conservative Christian college) * Carol Swain, committee co-chair and former professor at Vanderbilt Law School * Matthew Spalding, committee executive director, professor of Constitutional Government at Hillsdale College[6] * Phil Bryant, former Republican Governor of Mississippi * Jerry Davis, president of College of the Ozarks, a Christian college[7] * Michael Farris, constitutional lawyer and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom * Gay Hart Gaines, chair of a GOP PAC[8] * Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation[9] * John Gibbs, pundit turned HUD official under Trump * Victor Davis Hanson, Classical and military historian (i.e. specializing in ancient Greek and Roman warfare) * Charles R. Kesler, professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and conservative book reviewer * Charlie Kirk, co-founder and director of Turning Point USA [Insert: PragerUf'ing kidding? PRAGERU’S INFLUENCE [...]Founded as a nonprofit by conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager in 2009, PragerU’s “5 Minute Ideas” videos have become an indispensable propaganda device for the right. The videos are hosted by conservative personalities; some, like Steve Forbes, Charles Krauthammer, and George Will, are mainstream establishment conservatives, while many others are culled from the more recent and more extreme and combative internet incarnation of conservatism: Ben Shapiro (of The Daily Wire, former Breitbart editor), Candace Owens (Kanye West influencer and vlogger behind “Red Pill Black”), Charlie Kirk (founder and head of Turning Point USA), Jordan Peterson (Canadian professor who recently called for “enforced monogamy”), James Damore (the former Google employee fired for crafting the infamous memo critical of the company’s diversity goals), Dave Rubin (host of the online Rubin Report, who has often featured guests from the racist “alt-right”), and others of their ilk. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172412924] * Peter Kirsanow, labor lawyer and member of the US Commission on Civil Rights * Thomas Lindsay, former president of Shimer College and current think tank executive * Bob McEwen, former Republican Ohio Congressman * Scott McNealy, co-founder of a number of tech companies * Brooke Rollins, former director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council under Trump * Ned Ryun, founder and CEO of the conservative activist organization American Majority * Julie Strauss, lawyer and former Trump appointee[10][11]
The Report included no scholarly citations, and it was not stated which of the commission members were the primary author(s).[5] Contents
The report distorts fact, spews outright lies, doesn't cite sources, and engages in large-scale Red-baiting, especially in the later portions.[12] This section will analyze it chapter by chapter.
Chapter IV: Challenge to America's principles
The "report" The report dismisses accusations that owning slaves made the Founders hypocrites, by pointing out that other civilizations throughout history also engaged in slavery. It also points out that George Washington freed his slaves.
RationalWiki response Washington freed his slaves after his death, through a will, when they no longer would be useful to him. He also mistreated his slaves and placed them in inhuman conditions. In 1798, a Polish visitor once remarked that, while Washington treated his slaves kindly by the low standards of the US, Polish peasants lived happier lives and that the most miserable of peasants had better cottages than the slaves.[13]
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