Trump Announces Executive Order Establishing '1776 Commission'
By: JusticeTristan (The Federalist)
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President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he would sign a new executive order establishing the "1776 Commission" to promote patriotic education. The commission will counter the revisionist history peddled by leftist efforts like the New York Times' 1619 Project, which imposes false narratives on America's students.
"The narratives about America being pushed by the far left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries," Trump said in remarks during the White House Conference on American History at the National Archives. He further described the 1619 Project—a collection of essays that cast America as an irredeemably racist empire built solely to oppress minorities—as "ideological poison."
Earlier this year, China successfully weaponized American wokeness to drive divisions deeper in the U.S., seeking to evade responsibility for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak by complaining that any term linking the virus to its Chinese origins was racist. Woke reporters soon complied with Beijing's orders and began badgering the president repeatedly on his use of terms consistent with the naming of new diseases.
"Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda," Trump said, "that if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country."
President Trump says he will sign an executive order to create a "national commission to promote patriotic education."
It will be called "The 1776 Commission" pic.twitter.com/LRicAiIj3i
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 17, 2020
Trump's announcement marks the latest example of the White House's decision to engage substantively in the culture war, coming less than two weeks after the administration banned critical race theory trainings at federal agencies.
The new 1776 Commission, Trump said, "will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding."
Several Republican House members also ramped up their efforts to counter the 1619 Project, which has already infected K-12 curriculums in some 4,500 classrooms. Earlier Thursday, Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado and Rick Allen of Georgia introduced the House companion bill to legislation from Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton that would bar federal funding from schools incorporating the 1619 Project in their curriculums.
Launched last year, the progressive project spearheaded by the Times' riot-cheeringNikole Hannah-Jones (who won a Pulitzer for the project's opening essay, even though it required a major correction) has made its way into the classrooms of major schools districts such as Chicago and Washington D.C.
Watch a short documentary debunking the project here:
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Finally something will be done about schools teaching anti-American propaganda!
Who else but the guy with the courage to do something about it. Exactly why we voted for him!
Once again....Thank you Mr President.
The time is long overdue for us to fight against teaching bogus and flawed Critical Race Theory and 1619 Project in our schools, especially to very impressionable K-12 students. Much of this has been taught in our schools for nearly two generations.
I really never thought it would be addressed. God bless him!
I recently read an interesting article claiming that classical music is "racist". The moronic left-wing author obviously didn't know that there have been many Black and Asian composers and performers throughout history.
Even if there were none, it doesn't equate to racism. The NBA is almost totally black, but it does not mean racism. It simply means all the best plyers happen to be black.
So Trump finds a new way to double down on propaganda and lies. What else is new.
Will Trump allocate funds so that students can take the tests for other students?
Trumps, his associates and his base get more and more Orwellian as they go along. Trump can call his "commission" anything he wants, but it's nothing more than the Ministry of Truth Orwell warned us about. I'm seriously wondering which group of Trump Humpers is going to try to go all Night of Broken Glass next month to influence the election.
We already saw that for over 100 days.
We may prosecute under the seditious-conspiracy statute.
Thanks for making my point that right is getting more authoritarian all the time, Vic.
You are projecting. The left is attempting a revolt. That is sedition.
No Tess, it's the people who can't back up their claims.
How about that link?
Come on Tess, you were asked for two links. We are all waiting
Your claim in post 4.1.1 that they were all right wing agitators
You won't get a reasonable answer. They don't have one. Proof was asked for and given. As such all you will get is the usual insults, deflection, and denial.
Yup, it's become routine.
I don't have to. Your statement has been proved to be false
Fear sells for the right which makes my kristallnacht comment spot on point.
Maybe they don't have Internet or a library?
The precise number of outsiders was given, so obviously that's why the BS about 120 out of 125 couldn't be sourced, right?
And no mention of any of them, let alone all of them being "right wing"
If it does, you only have the American left to thank. They have a lot of people frightened right now!
HAHAHA!
You said 120 of 125 were outsiders and that they were all right wing.
Talk about moving goal posts!
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No you haven't!!! Please feel free to offer that proof.
I admit to a mistake.
Ok.
Here try this on:
"bogus" is your term for anything you don't like to acknowledge?
I think we got it.
It's all about those overly enlarged amygdala. Their fear centers are larger than those in liberals.
Which is why they became fear and superstition ruled conservatives in the first place.
Perfect. Sometimes, letting someone spell out their delusional claims is all that you need to do. They expose themselves.
Per the Milwaukee Journal:
"But a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review of bookings into the Kenosha County Jail showed most people arrested since the shooting were from Kenosha, the surrounding area or a few cities in out-state Wisconsin. "
Per Tessy, people who live in Kenosha county are "outsiders." There were actual some actual outsiders though :" a bout a dozen were from Washington, Oregon and California. That group includes at least nine people police said were associated with Riot Kitchen,"
Numerous links have been posted exposing the craziness of your argument yet you persist to deny reality.
Fascinating.
Who is "we"?
( and "may" is a three letter word. )
I'm surprised that you support the Federalist legislation that was used to persecute Republicans during the John Adams administration. The backlash ended Adams hope for a second term as well as the Federalist Party. The GOP would be wise to read up and re-vist books like Criminal Dissent by Wendel Byrd.
Sedition is rarely used because of it's conflict with the First and Tenth Amendments.
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There is no revolt and there is no sedition,
just wishful thinking and silly comments.
That's is one side of the argument. Crimes committed is the other. You can say down with America. The killing of cops as part of that goal is the crime.
And thus the other side of the argument:
Trump would make George Orwell's Big Brother blush!
Orwell knew the difference between speech and rebellion.
Americans won't buy Trump's history rewrite!
They won't buy slogans anymore either.
They, for sure, are not buying MAGA or KAG...
Nor will they tolerate left wing violence.
It's the Left that has been rewriting history for decades, JBB, and there's plenty of evidence.
It is the right that tries to misinform Americans!
Americans oppose violence both left and right.
How so? Links, please.
I don't know about that. Some have defended/made excuses for the violence. The media hardly covered it. Perhaps on Nov 3rd we will find out how many want it ended.
Smart, mature individuals stay home and don't involve themselves in the silly-season marching during a pandemic and amid escalated violence and destruction coming from the proud boys and boogaloo inciters.
Is that why Democrat mayors and governors painted domestic terrorist BLM "street murals" in the "Summer of Love", and allowed vandalism, looting, assault, arson, murder, rape ... and DEFUNDED their police departments ... but NOW ask, "What can we do? Where are the police?"
Yep, the left opposes violence in their Democrat run cities.
WOW! Pretty much all spin on reality.
The propagandists at Heritage/Heartland are working overtime.
Prove my comment wrong, and make sure you use facts not opinion. I'll wait.
Unfortunately, a generation has been raised on Howard Zinn's anti-American propaganda, and the results are playing out in the streets where lawyers throw Molotov Cocktails at police. The left has controlled our academic institution for decades now, and they've created a generation who've rejected the melting pot in favor of racial identity politics and balkanization . Learning and achievement is out, grievances based demands are in.
The reality is that folk are not actually all right or all left. These polarizations and labeling only serve to divide us.
I consider myself a centrist due to agreeing with moderates on both sides of the aisle.
Seems there are very few moderates that are willing to fight Trump's insanity on the right now.
The writing is on the wall. Authoritarian fascism has immigrated from Nazi Germany to America.
What was that about your being a "centrist"?
Fine and good, but that's no excuse to avoid the truth. Our educational system, particularly at the university level, is very left wing.
"The University of Chicago’s English department will only consider graduate school applicants interested in “working in and with Black studies” for this upcoming admissions cycle, it has announced."
Does that sound like the work of "moderates" to you? History is a similar echo chamber. To speak out against the craziness is to be cancelled.
Authoritarian fascism has immigrated from Nazi Germany to America
And universities are it's vanguard into America. Silencing dissent, race obessions... It's all there for you.
So a centrist can't call out extreme insanity when it is evident?
Let's take a minute and appreciate this from the author of "100 were outside agitators/right wing/inciters/killers. "
I think you can be patriotic and still be critical of your country. Hopefully, you work within the existing system to promote improvement peacefully and legally.
I fear, though, that if students are not shown the positive aspects of the country anymore, but are instead indoctrinated to believe that their country is evil, they will work for change illegally and with violence. Also, when someone comes along insisting that the country is evil, they will just believe it. And if that person proposes some utopian alternative for government and society, they will blindly buy into it without realizing what they are giving up. They won't defend what is right and good about America because they won't understand what those things are.
So if schools inject some patriotism into the lessons, I don't mind. I think you can do that without erasing history. We used to have that. There seems to be a notion on the far Left these days that topics like slavery, racial injustice, unfair treatment of Native Americans, and sexual inequality are never talked about in schools. That's not true.
I learned about all of those things in school (and that was a long time ago), and was somehow able to recognize those things as faults in America, but still love my country because they are faults we have been trying to correct. I learned that America was founded upon and continues to operate by certain ideals. We have struggled to achieve those ideals in actual practice, but at least we do make the struggle. Over time, we get closer to that ideal.
Looks like the heat got too hot in Vic's reality kitchen here for some.