1619 Project founder proud to have iconoclasm fad named for her work

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The director and creator of the New York Times’s factually challenged 1619 Project is happy to take credit for the largely indiscriminate sacking of monuments throughout the United States.

If this surprises you, it should not. When Nikole Hannah-Jones is not advancing conspiracy theories or trying to one-up victims of the Trail of Tears, she can be found cheering the destruction of American institutions and icons.

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