Progressives have done all they can to heighten the tension of political correctness with our established institutions and “cancel culture” in Western society. As comedian Shane Gillis also learned recently, everything is political now, and your present fate must be “canceled” if your past does not conform absolutely to today's progressive orthodoxy.
The New York Times's 1619 Project, for example, aspires to “cancel” the American founding for that generation's sins and redirect all reverence Americans have for 1776 toward 1619, the year the first slave ship arrived in British North America.
In a word, the Times's politically purposed project communicates antipathy toward the founding of the country it claims to care about so much.
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