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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The same jaundiced eye I am applying to 1619 and progressivism generally is the same one I applied to the run up to the Iraq War and Bush's Administration generally.

I suspect that you haven't read much of the 1619 Project and have formed your opinions on it on the basis that woke SJWs irritate you much more than their critics. Will Wilkinson's Substack on the subject is pretty strong, especially this:

There’s plenty to argue with in some of the essays and articles that make up 1619 Project, especially Hannah Nikole-Jones’ admitted overstatement of the extent to which the American Revolution was motivated by the desire to protect American slavery. That said, the broader story told by the 1619 Project is pretty close to the consensus view of contemporary academic American historians. Conservatives can’t stand this story. It shows us that nearly every American institution and pattern of social, political or cultural life has been structured (or disfigured) by white supremacy, enslavement, racial apartheid, and systemic discrimination.

Intellectually, you basically know that's right, but emotionally it's not something you have any interest in talking about, so while you aren't running out to say that you disagree with most historians because dunno, reasons, you are happy to say that you are annoyed by the 1619 Project for going and making that history the sort of public controversy that goes and enters your brainspace.