Matt Walsh would like you to know you've been lied to. Last month, the right-wing provocateur appeared on Megyn Kelly's show to discuss his new video series, Real History With Matt Walsh. 'When you really start getting into it,' Walsh told Kelly, 'you realize that, wow, they really lied about everything.' He begins the series by examining the practice of chattel slavery, he said to Kelly, 'because this is, we're told, the original sin' of the United States. In Walsh's account, the left believes that 'America was built on slavery, and it has no right to exist, and every white American carries, somehow, that legacy, that guilt in their blood'; therefore progressives feel they have the 'moral justification to just do whatever they want' to white people. Walsh intends to stop this. So in Real History, he relentlessly downplays the brutality of slavery in the United States. Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump'a malignant response to...
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