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The hosts criticize a CBS segment and the musical "Hamilton" for rewriting the history of founding fathers like Benjamin Rush. While modern media portrays Rush as a progressive abolitionist, the hosts point out that he owned slaves and authored pseudoscientific racial theories. They characterize "Hamilton" as a form of "programming" for New York elites to accept a sanitized version of history.
The discussion reveals how the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations cooperated to transform the American education system. According to researcher Norman Dodd, these foundations sought to alter the teaching of American history to create a "stable of historians" who would promote their globalist and industrialist agendas. This is presented as the origin of the "obedient worker" model of public schooling.
The hosts discuss the "rewriting of history" in modern media, citing Netflix shows like Bridgerton that feature racially diverse aristocrats in historically white settings. They argue this creates a false sense of historical reality for younger audiences and serves a broader agenda of multiculturalism. The discussion links these media trends to the global Black Lives Matter protests and their impact on traditional European institutions like the monarchy.
Zed Jilani notes that some of the earliest and most rigorous critiques of the 1619 Project came from the World Socialist Web Site. These critics took issue with the project's dismissal of the American Revolution's democratic significance and its focus on race over class.
