The Tom Woods Show, episode 1478.

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Pick it up at wrongaboutguns.com. Hi everybody, Tom Woods here by myself today talking a little bit about

this 1619 project launched by the New York Times

recently 1619 of course the date in which slavery is introduced into what becomes the

United States and the claim being made here is that we need to look back on that it being

2019 400 years later as being the foundational moment in American

history because so much of what, in fact, there was a tweet from a New York Times writer saying

that we're going to be running a series of essays arguing that pretty much everything that we've

thought of as making America great has its origins in slavery.

So I want to say a little something about that, and some very good libertarian scholars have already started to take this on.

Now, predictably enough, there are some libertarians, not that many, thank heavens, who immediately latched onto this idea and wanted to go after anybody

who was skeptical. And thank goodness our friend Phil Magnus is able to hold his own, because when

the career destroyers and the smears and the regime mouthpieces in the libertarian movement

went after him, he just immediately fired back, well, I've actually written scholarly work on this.

And then they cowered, you know, like Dracula before a crucifix.

Right? This is, they just wanted to throw some talking points at him and hurt his reputation.

And he just came back with, but I actually know the scholarly literature on this.

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