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Because the left is governed by political correctness / Lysenkoism: the subordination of evidence and truth to leftist politics. The 1619 project was always absurd. But its aim is not to find the truth. The "architect" of the project, NHJ, has admitted that the aim of the project is to get reparations for slavery, not to represent the truth about American history.
You can't understand the left without understanding political correctness.
More on the "project," from Jason Riley.
Of course the right has had a tendency to minimize the sin of slavery...but it didn't raise the principles underlying that denial to the level of axioms of inquiry. The right, at least, tends to maintain a belief in reason, evidence and objectivity. Thus it can be shamed into admitting its errors. The left, not so much. In fact, another candidate for an axiom of the left: credo quia absurdum est.
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