THE HEIRS TO LEON TROTSKY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT MEMORY HOLES. AND PURGES.

World Socialist Web Site authors Tom Mackaman and David North bring the smack on the agitprop masquerading as New York Times history.

The Times’ “disappearing,” with a few secret keystrokes, of its central argument, without any explanation or announcement, is a stunning act of intellectual dishonesty and outright fraud. When it launched the 1619 Project in August 2019, the Times proclaimed that its aim was to radically change what and how students were taught about American history. With the aim of creating a new syllabus based on the 1619 Project, hundreds of thousands of copies of the original version of the narrative, as published in the New York Times Magazine, were printed and distributed to schools, museums and libraries all across the United States. A very large number of schools declared that they would align their curricula in accordance with the narrative supplied by the Times

It was a crap project then, it is a crap project now.  At Quillette, Phillip Magness of the American Institute for Economic Research has the receipts the projects' propagandists tried to hide in the memory hole.  This week's Power Line Week In Pictures has a fitting visual aid, as long as we're on the subject of Stalin making things disappear.

Fortunately for the people running the (Failing?) New York Times, and those of us capable of thinking for ourselves, quality control involves market tests, rather than chekist justice.

The Times is now obligated to issue a public statement acknowledging its distortion of history and the dishonest attempt to cover up its error. It should issue a public apology to Professors Gordon Woods, James McPherson, Sean Wilentz, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes and all other scholars it sought to discredit for having criticized the 1619 Project. To be perfectly blunt, Mr. Silverstein and his confederates in the editorial board of the Times should be dismissed from their posts.

Furthermore, the Pulitzer Prize given to Hannah-Jones this spring in the field of commentary for her lead essay, in which the false claims about the “true founding” and the American Revolution were made, should be rescinded.

The 1619 Project was never about historical clarification. As the WSWS warned in September 2019, the “1619 Project is one component of a deliberate effort to inject racial politics into the heart of the 2020 elections and foment divisions among the working class.” As revealed in a leaked meeting with Times staff, Executive Editor Dean Baquet believed that it would be helpful to the Democratic Party to shift focus after the failed anti-Russia campaign.

It didn't. "By repudiating and denigrating the American Revolution and Civil War, the New York Times has provided an opportunity for Trump to fraudulently posture as a defender of the great democratic legacy of America’s revolutions in the interests of his neo-fascist politics." Trotskyites have to write that way. Reality is socially conservative, even if their doctrine won't have it.