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Political Correctness is Real
You can tell “real” patriotism mostly by who expresses it, like when a conservative wears a flag pin in the lapel of his sport jacket or declares their loyalty to the statues of Confederate war heroes.
“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” the most recent former president warned his cult at the foot of Mount Rushmore on his last Independence Day Eve as Commander-in-Chief.
Such patriotism is politically correct. For example, the historical accuracy of the 1619 Project is unassailable. The Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project was led by Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose professional honors and awards, so far, included a Peabody Award, two Polk Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant, a 2019 Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year and a handful of regional and national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, among many more. A record worthy of bragging rights for any accredited university journalism department, let alone one single journalist, yet Hannah-Jones was recently denied tenure at the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism. The school had pursued Hannah-Jones for its Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. But by the Memorial Day holiday weekend, in the wake of a right-wing conservative temper tantrum, the school…