Why Woke History Is Not the Answer
Wilfred Reilly
The United States may be the first country in history to tell a “noble lie” about its past that makes that past look worse, not better, than it actually was. For certain, the premodern history of the United States included a great deal of barbaric, uncivilized behavior: the conquest of Native American tribes, the enslavement of captured Africans, and the oppression of women, just for starters. But popular left-wing models of historical education, in the “1619 Project” and “Howard Zinn” traditions, regularly make claims about further injustices and atrocities that are simply not based in reality: for example, that Americans fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery, or that African-Americans struggled largely “alone” for freedom. Almost universally, these pedagogies also ignore both the context within which America’s undisputed sins took place essentially all nations allowed slavery or serfdom until recent ce
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In 2016, Dr. Wilfred Reilly debated a white nationalist at Kentucky State University.
The associate professor of political science was then one year into his tenure, and the event made headlines.Â
It happened in the midst of a national discussion about free speech, especially whether colleges should allow speakers such as Jared Taylor, Reillyâs competition, to speak on their campuses.
Reilly, 38, debated Taylor on the merits of diversity in America, with Reilly arguing that racial diversity is a strength for America. Taylor, whom Reilly called âthe intellectual founder of the alt-right,â argued that diversity actively harms society.
âI think Jared Taylor is wrong about virtually everything, but we have a tendency in the USA right now to try to silence speech,â Reilly said at the debate. âIf you think something someone says is totally nonsensical, you should go argue with them about.â
Fox News host Tucker Carlson joined the right-wing media pile-up, begun on Friday by Wall Street Journal columnist Joseph Epstein, who criticized Jill Biden for preferring to use her full title, “Dr. Jill Biden,” for her doctorate in education.
“Just don t ask her to commit surgery, don t ask for advice in your coronary artery disease, because she s not actually a physician,” Carlson said during the December 14 edition of
Tucker Carlson Tonight. “She s a doctor of education, which means basically nothing.”
But while Carlson also ridiculed the incoming first lady for having purportedly suffered from “a very bad case of status anxiety” and solving it “with another pointless title,” it turns out Carlson has had no objection to honoring the title of “doctor” for non-physicians when it served his own agenda that is, when their titles might boost the credibility of the conservative narratives he sought to advance on his show.
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Why have over 300 hate-crime hoaxes been perpetrated over the last few decades and why is the media, which pounces on them initially, so slow (and sometimes silent) when the time comes to correct the record?
Why has there been just a single book written about the 1970’s Zebra Killings where over 70 whites in San Francisco are believed to have been murdered by Nation of Islam members the worst mass hate-crime in modern American history?
How come no major newspaper or broadcaster ever covered the beyond heinous “Knoxville Massacre?”
Why isn’t it household knowledge that the notorious D.C. Sniper shootings of 2002 were later found to be based on hastening a race war?
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