Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project

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Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project
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Republican senator who wants to ‘save’ US history from New York Times gives interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

, who was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her introductory essay to the 1619 Project, said on Friday that Cotton’s bill “speaks to the power of journalism more than anything I’ve ever done in my career”.: “If chattel slavery – heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit – were a ‘necessary evil’ as Tom Cotton says, it’s hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end.

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