Best fiction read was Tim Winton's Breath or (there's probably some recency bias at play here) Sebastian de Castel's Traitor's Blade.
I also read a few comic books. I love the East of West series (at least the first three books).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/06/1619-s06.html
lmao
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...
> What Is The 1619 Project? - The 1619 Project And Socialism
> 1619 Project Debunked - What parents should know.
So i assume there's a certain section that disagrees with the book so much that they're paying for ads to counter it! Maybe there's an answer lying there. i.e. it triggers the left versus right debate and hard!
One of the goals of propaganda is to cause disunity.
The idea being you divide people and conquer. You force people into psychological states where there are two minorities where some people don't react, and some who react violently at shadows, and it allows a smaller third group to do things that couldn't normally be done. That's the gist of it. You get them to that point by corrupting social norms, and other factors that make up individual and national identity. Its quite evil, and often uses sophisticated techniques that are designed to work on psychological blindspots we all have, the only defense for that type of material, is to limit exposure and view that material with critical thought and attention.
Obviously this kind of content would be harmful to any children younger than 12 as they would lack the developmental faculties needed to discern lies from truth and just accept what is provided.
I have no opinion myself (haven't read the book, don't know much beyond the official grade school history curriculum), but some of the criticisms come from superficially reasonable people.
If you take the book content to be meaningful, you should at least survey the criticisms. Of course you'll want to ignore the virulently anti brigade, which is numerous, very loud, and insufferably stupid.
Did not downvote. I think this is what the downvoters meant. As a reader, you deserve an explanation, IMO.
Subversive content in general tends to get that reaction from intelligent people and that book is more rightly considered propaganda than actual history.
If you understand what propaganda is, what its goals are, and can recognize it easily you probably wouldn't have been blindsided.