It stayed up for about as long as it took to write it. https://t.co/v7O3xCinnA
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 20, 2021
Take it from someone who reads archives of American fascist and authoritarian propaganda from 1920s-onward for a living: yes, absolutely. This reads exactly like something the Klan would produce in the 1920s, Coughlin in 1930s, Skousen in 1950s, JBS in 1960s… https://t.co/zcz7q49yhd
— Austin J. Clements (@ClementsAustinJ) January 19, 2021
Annnnnnd 1776 commission page is downhttps://t.co/tF6h1vZWMz pic.twitter.com/N8Iqu0MY4i
— Logan McDonald (@_loganmcdonald) January 20, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden will cancel President Trump’s 1776 Commission, which released a report on Monday that has been derided by many mainstream historians for distorting the history of slavery in the United States.https://t.co/YLRZeZglnV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 20, 2021
A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work https://t.co/z65aj8To48 pic.twitter.com/s5F450ce6R
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) January 19, 2021
Great roundup on historians’ response to the 1776 Report by @gbrockell https://t.co/EOZIvR9zmT
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 19, 2021
Trump administration issues a racist school curriculum report on Martin Luther King Jr. Day https://t.co/RS9LcE0wDj pic.twitter.com/VubpcHv5zW
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 19, 2021
No, no, Fred — you’ve pretty much captured the reaction of historians here. https://t.co/SEIDFQ11B9
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 19, 2021
The 1776 Report — which makes sweeping claims about American history — has no actual American historians among its authors.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 19, 2021
Thread: https://t.co/J02Cqw98rS
The report likens the Progressive movement to fascism and says slavery must be seen “in a much broader perspective”
— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) January 19, 2021
with @jennyschuessler https://t.co/YpeCah3QoN
Yes, the outrage and the awfulness. But I confess I keep burst out laughing how poorly written, slapdash and half thought this crap is. Rule of law. Since Aristotle. Big in England. Now in America < concision. pic.twitter.com/GZZLks3g4I
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 19, 2021
So one clever scholar ran the 1776 Report through the popular plagiarism-detection software Turnitin. And, well, thread: https://t.co/g6E4dWIbNy
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) January 19, 2021
Started a thread on the straw men, distortions, & oddities of the "1776 Commission" report's section on slavery, starting with its strange assertion that a "charge levelled against the founders" is "hence a charge against our country itself." And then I was like, yeah, forget it.
— Joshua D. Rothman (@rothmanistan) January 18, 2021
The Trump administration is marking Martin Luther King Day by putting out a report that defends the Founding Fathers for owning slaves and attacks the Civil Rights Movement. This is an administration racist to the core. https://t.co/k1sSMC1mgN
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 18, 2021
Sad! 