How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

This is important, because context provides knowledge: yes, the European encroachments on the American continent were bloody and awful, but bloody and awful conflict was nothing new on the continent itself. Claims of genocide by Columbus are wildly wrong; the depopulation of natives after contact with Europeans was almost entirely the result of disease to which natives had no immunity.

The Times stated that 1619 was America’s “true birth year,” that “Out of slavery—and the anti-black racism it required—grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day.”

The newspaper of record declared that it aimed to “reframe the country’s history” by placing slavery at its center.48 The goal here is obvious: to suggest that America’s values are inherently white supremacist and tyrannical, rather than rooted in liberty.

Unless. Unless we remember. Unless we learn to love; unless we learn to trust; unless we remember what unites us, rather than what divides us. We can start by remembering those who built our country—and why they built it.