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I should probably screenshot this latest example of NHJ’s intellectual dishonest before she deletes it like she usually does, but here’s the fun part: she’s quoting passages from the speeches Douglass later repudiated after devoting time to studying the Constitution. https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1340756835628953600
Douglass explained in great detail afterwards that he had been wrong to swallow Garrison’s views about the Constitution being evil. After studying the subject himself he realized he’d been in error. One might wish, and futilely, that she would herself study with some care.
FD was of course falsely accused of dishonesty for his change of mind—his white critics said it couldn’t POSSIBLY be a genuinely thought-out position on his part. It just HAD to be an intellectually dishonest political tactic.
Anyone who’s read OH SO MUCH about Douglass & the Const would know this. Doubtless it’s news to NHJ.
FD doesn’t fit into NHJ’s (patently false) narrative of American history so she has to wish away the considered opinion he held after the age of about 33.
FD doesn’t fit into NHJ’s (patently false) narrative of American history so she has to wish away the considered opinion he held after the age of about 33.
Anyway, more here: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/1619-project-autopsy
For more information https://twitter.com/timothysandefur/status/1340770063683502080
