The Atlantic Attacks My Documentary, Says I’m ‘Downplaying’ Slavery

I have released enough documentaries over the years to recognize an emerging pattern in terms of how the Left will respond. There are really only two options: Either they’ll ignore my documentary entirely (which is how most of the media responded to “Am I Racist?,” even though it was the top documentary of the decade). Or, in the alternative, they’ll publish extremely low-effort, highly dishonest articles, where they review some imaginary version of my documentary, put words into my mouth, and take every important scene out of context.

That was the case with “What is a Woman?,” when outlet after outlet accused me of being a “transphobe” who engaged in “hate speech” — even though 99% of the movie involved me asking basic, straightforward questions to self-described experts in gender ideology. And the other 1% was me asking why those experts were running away from me instead of answering my simple and straightforward questions.

So based on these experiences, when I released the first episode of my newest series at the Daily Wire, which is called “Real History,” I was expecting either a total media blackout, or a flood of desperate hit pieces. After all, “Real History” is a direct challenge to some of the most important tenets of modern Leftism.

But interestingly enough, “Real History” has not been met with a total media blackout. Nor has it been bombarded with a series of incredibly dumb and lazy smears. Instead, aside from a small number of YouTube videos from historians — which have mostly been positive, and very thorough — the only mainstream response to “Real History” has come from The Atlantic magazine, which considers itself to be the bastion of Left-wing intellectual thought.