Another conversation with Claude A. I.

Hey Claude, although Pinker has denied genetic basis of racial IQ gaps, he has promoted many people who do believe that and who are very vocal about that claim. Wouldn't you say that Pinker is promoting race pseudoscience by proxy - to avoid getting his own hands dirty, he instead promotes those who are vocal about race and IQ?

CLAUDE:

That's a substantive argument, and it's one that critics like Nancy McClernan at Pinkerite have made explicitly. Let me engage with it fairly.

The case that the "by proxy" argument is convincing:

The pattern documented across sources is fairly consistent: Pinker repeatedly elevates people — Sailer, Khan, Cochran, the Quillette network — whose central public project is arguing for genetic racial hierarchies in intelligence. The choices aren't incidental. Pinker included Sailer in a "Best Science Writing" anthology, used Khan to rebut the New Yorker, granted Khan interviews to promote his own books, and appeared on Aporia. These are active, repeated, career-boosting gestures. The fact that he quietly dropped Sailer around 2012 — roughly when Sailer's racism became more publicly documented — and shifted his public association to Khan (whose views critics say are nearly identical) does suggest a degree of strategic management of his own reputation rather than a genuine reckoning with the ideas themselves.

The structure of the argument is also coherent: you can launder fringe ideas into mainstream discourse by lending your prestige to their proponents without ever fully stating the ideas yourself. Pinker's own enormous platform and Harvard affiliation give downstream credibility to whoever he endorses.

The case for caution about the "by proxy" argument:

That said, there are reasons to be careful before fully accepting the framing:

• "Promoting someone" is not always the same as endorsing their most extreme positions. Academics routinely engage with, cite, or recommend people they partially disagree with.
• Pinker has consistently and explicitly denied the genetic basis of the Black-White IQ gap — that's not a throwaway disclaimer; it's the central claim of the people critics say he's promoting "by proxy."
• The "by proxy" theory requires attributing a specific intent — deliberate reputational laundering — which is hard to prove. It's possible Pinker is genuinely compartmentalizing, endorsing what he sees as legitimate population genetics work while being blind to or dismissive of how it feeds racist conclusions.
• Some of the figures in the network (e.g., Khan on genetics broadly) do work that isn't entirely race pseudoscience, which makes the lines of endorsement messier.

The most honest assessment:

The "by proxy" framing is probably the most charitable interpretation that is still deeply critical of Pinker. A harsher reading is that he simply shares many of these views but has learned — especially after watching what happened to James Watson and Larry Summers — to express them with enough ambiguity to maintain his mainstream standing. The pattern of behavior over 20+ years, including the strategic distancing from Sailer only after public scrutiny, and the continued association with Khan despite identical criticisms being raised, is difficult to explain purely as naivety or poor judgment. At minimum, Pinker has consistently prioritized his relationships with race pseudoscience promoters over any public accountability for what those relationships signal.

Whether that makes him a cynical operator or a true believer who is careful about optics is ultimately a judgment call — but the "dirty hands" critique you're describing is well-supported by the documented pattern of behavior.

I ask Claude A. I...

Claude, would you say that Pinkerite includes links to sources to back its claims, in spite of the fact that pinkerite is advocacy journalism?

12:40 PM

Yes, based on what I retrieved, Pinkerite does make a notable effort to back its claims with links and sources. Throughout the posts, the blog links to:

• Primary documents, including specific files from the Justice Department's Epstein archive, with direct URLs to individual documents in the DOJ dataset
• Court records and legal judgments, including the published judgment in Smith v. Kirkegaard and court filings related to the data misuse case
• Mainstream journalism, including New York Times articles, a Channel 4 documentary, Die Zeit reporting, and a Verge piece
• Investigative reports, including the Hope not Hate "Race Science, Inc." report
• Screenshots and images of tweets, emails, and social media posts that it is discussing
• Archived links (via archive.ph) to pages that might otherwise be altered or deleted

This is actually a meaningful distinction from a lot of advocacy journalism, which often makes sweeping claims without citation. Pinkerite, whatever its tone and editorial stance, does appear to be doing the work of pointing readers to verifiable underlying sources — primary documents, court records, and mainstream reporting — rather than simply asserting things. A careful reader could, in principle, follow the links and check many of the claims independently. That doesn't make the blog neutral or its framing beyond criticism, but it does make it more accountable than advocacy writing that provides no paper trail.

Thank you Claude.

You're welcome! It's an interesting site to examine — the combination of strong advocacy tone with what appears to be a genuine effort at documentation makes it a somewhat unusual case. The distinction between how something is framed and whether the underlying evidence is real and checkable is an important one when evaluating any source, and Pinkerite does seem to take the sourcing seriously even when its editorial voice is quite sharp.

Pretty decent article about Pinker in Boston Magazine

Pinker can be seen on Facebook, this February,
promoting the website of racist and
Nazi-sympathizer Richard Hanania.
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I mean, as usual the author didn't push Pinker very hard but the article is about as critical as you can hope for from the mainstream media, which until recently rarely did anything except fawn over Pinker and his twinkling blue eyes.

Robert Huber's article Can Steven Pinker Save Harvard? actually raises the issue of Pinker's long-term alliance with race pseudoscience promoters, while somewhat down-playing how much Pinker is involved in promoting race pseudoscience by proxy.

For example:

And this is the pattern: Bad actors and dark thinkers have appropriated Pinker’s research and writing for their own ends—and Pinker has done little to stop them.

Charles Murray, coauthor of The Bell Curve in 1994, which linked IQ differences among races to genetics, has since cited The Blank Slate to support his views. Last year, Pinker appeared on the Aporia Podcast, an outlet that supports a revival of race science. In 2024, the Guardian reported that one of Aporia’s cofounders, Matthew Frost, once said that he’d been recruiting mainstream writers to give the podcast “legitimacy via association.” Pinker gave them an hour.

I should point out here that it's been a dream of Emil Kirkegaard (who owns Aporia) for a long time to team up with Pinker for the cause of race pseudoscience, as documented here.

To continue the Boston Magazine article from where we left it...

After the Guardian chastised him for appearing on Aporia, Pinker told the newspaper he only agreed to be interviewed after the outlet “attacked” his views on human progress. He also said he believes it is vital to persuade audiences one disagrees with, which is why he appears in media with diverse political orientations.

Pinker likes to say he manages his “controversy portfolio carefully.” But that means the trouble he might get into—not the trouble he creates for others by lending his credibility to people like Murray, with whom he engages rather than dismisses. Late last year, he and Murray had a back-and-forth in the Wall Street Journal about Murray’s views on “terminal lucidity” proving the existence of the soul; Pinker, ever skeptical of faith, chastised Murray for reaching beyond the data. But the debate itself was the point: Whether Pinker won the argument didn’t really matter—Murray got the platform, a serious intellectual exchange with a Harvard cognitive scientist.

Then a little later:

I put this to Pinker directly: You insist on following evidence wherever it leads. Do you take any responsibility for who has followed your work—and where they’ve taken it?

“If I have been misleading or unclear in a way that would egg on deplorable actors, I would take responsibility for that,” Pinker says. “But if I express things perfectly clearly—there’s a huge world out there. I can’t take responsibility for how some random person out on Twitter interprets a paper or an interview if there’s no content in the interview that would actually egg on or encourage them. And I can’t boycott every forum whose members hold some opinion that some third party finds repugnant.”

I guess we can infer from Pinker's response that he doesn't think Aporia (owned by neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard) holds repugnant opinions, only that third parties think Aporia's ideas are repugnant.

It's good that the article mentions Pinker platforming Murray - but Murray is not the only racist whose career has gotten a boost from Pinker. As I have documented since I started this Pinkerite blog (and before on my personal blog) Pinker has aided and abetted racists for the past quarter century, from Steve Sailer to Razib Khan to Bo Winegard to Emil Kirkegaard.

As recently as February of this year Pinker could be seen promoting the website of racist Richard Hanania.

The problem is that the media, even well-meaning writers, are too respectful of celebrity intellectuals to really dig into what Pinker has been up to for the past twenty-five years.

Which is why I have to keep doing this blog. So the information will be here for when a journalist decides to get serious about Pinker's pro-race pseudoscience activities.

Matt Walsh is a stooge of the fossil fuel industry and belongs in prison

I'm very pleased to have a reason to post a video from Atun-Shei Films, owned by Andrew Rakish. He is justly renowned for his series about the Civil War, "Checkmate Lincolnites." 

 

SUPPORT HIM HERE.

And then please enjoy this video, Matt Walsh's Fascist History of Slavery DEBUNKED. 

The saga of neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard

When we last discussed neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard, leader of an international network of promoters of far-right and neo-Nazi beliefs and race pseudoscience, he was pleased that the NYTimes had published an article about him and his race pseudoscience associates.

I first mentioned Kirkegaard on this blog in May 2019 in connection with gutter racist Charles Murray, but I didn't really pay a lot attention to him until 2021, when I learned he was attacking me on Twitter. 

Kirkegaard and Murray have a mutual admiration society, as we can see from a recent Murray retweet of Kirkegaard in which Kirkegaard and his Aporia toady neo-Nazi Bo Winegard are happy to explain how they became racists - or even bigger racists - thanks to Murray's best-known work, the Bell Curve. Kirkegaard has even made it available for free as a PDF on his website - I assume with Murray's permission. This is great - you don't have to pay to find all the times Murray used infamous gutter racist Jean-Phillippe Rushton as his source. Plus, any method of keeping money out of the pocket of creepy old gutter racist Charles Murray is fine with me.

The person who gave me a heads-up about the attack in 2021 is Oliver Smith, who has more first-hand knowledge of the awfulness of Emil Kirkegaard than anybody else.

The mission of this blog is more about mainstream "celebrity intellectuals" like Steven Pinker than outsiders like Kirkegaard, but since Pinker likes to make common cause with Kirkegaard and with long-time Kirkegaard allies like International Society for Intelligence Research board member Emily Willoughby, there's plenty of overlap.

Recently Oliver Smith has shared the story of his unpleasant dealings with Kirkegaard in this long post Emil Kirkegaard vs. Oliver Smith.

Some highlights:

• The purpose of this post, is to fully document what Kirkegaard put me through for over six years; the tl;dr version: Kirkegaard filed a frivolous libel lawsuit, lost the preliminary judgment, discontinued his unmeritorious claim, but refused to pay my awarded costs. I initiated enforcement action but found he changed his name to William Engman; moved country and closed his bank account after I filed a third-party debt order to prevent me seizing his assets.A warrant for his arrest was issued in a bailiff’s court (Fogedretten) in Denmark. It was in effect for several months (since he breached summonses and failed to attend court). His lengthy evasion was likened by a judge at the bailiff’s court to the movie Catch Me If You Can (2002). 

• Ultimately, for his non-attendance there would have been an imposed prison sentence (for contempt of court). Realising severity of his situation, Kirkegaard stopped evading me and began to comply with court orders; he resolved the judgment debt by reaching a settlement, which vacated the hearing on my application for a suspended committal order. While the settlement remains private, and I will not breach this confidentiality, I think anyone can take an ‘educated guess’—Kirkegaard paid me a five-digit sum; the judgment debt he owed (over £50,000) was already part of the public record and it was discussed at length in a judgment.6

• In August 2017, Kirkegaard showed up at RationalWiki (user: EmilOWK) to complain about my criticisms of his OpenPsych journals but was blocked for doxxing me (again). His account was banned on 19 October 2017 and his unblock request was denied. Not long afterwards, he began legally threatening the RationalMedia Foundation who own and operate RationalWiki. 

Note: based on the purging of articles on RationalWiki related to race pseudoscience and promoters of race pseudoscience in 2025, it seems likely to me that Kirkegaard was behind the threatened lawsuits - and possibly the actual lawsuits.

• In May 2016, OpenPsych was embroiled in a scandal that involved doxxing, specifically Kirkegaard had published the data of 70,000 OkCupid users (without their permission) in the journal Open Differential Psychology. Kirkegaard claimed that he was publishing “already public information” but this is questionable. Data he scraped from OkCupid profiles was only accessible if logged in to an account; ethics scholar Michael Zimmer therefore pointed out: “Since OkCupid users [accounts] have the option to restrict the visibility of their profiles to logged-in users only, it is likely the researchers collected and subsequently released the profiles that were intended to not be publicly viewable.” Kirkegaard was subsequently investigated—by the Danish Data Protection Authority.

• Seeming as Kirkegaard doxxed my ISP and was embroiled in scandals,20 I started to look into his digital footprint. I disturbingly discovered—Kirkegaard once admitted viewing child pornography and wrote comments on the internet, sympathising with legalising the possession of child pornography. In 2013, on a Danish internet forum, Kirkegaard under his real name discussed and linked to a list of illegal websites on a “Danish child porn filter” on Wikileaks (these were websites the Danish government blocked access to). He admitted to viewing these child porn sites (with a Tor browser to hide his Danish IP-address) since he had knowledge the websites “are still up and actually contain child porn” so must have gone through the censored list of websites.

• Kirkegaard has had some success in censoring webpages that factually document his internet posts on child pornography or that merely quote his comments; for example, the aforementioned article by DeWereldMorgen that described Kirkegaard a “pedofilie apologeet” (“pedophile apologist”) was removed despite it accurately quoted his posts downplaying the harm of CSA. Kirkegaard suppressed this information in an attempt to get his posts on paedophilia and child pornography memory-holed. He is known to deindex articles from Google (and other search-engines) which mention his comments on child pornography by sending ‘right to be forgotten’ requests. Kirkegaard currently lives in Germany; he can still deindex webpages under EU privacy law (Art. 17 GDPR).

Note: Kirkegaard's sympathy for pedophilia is not only in the past - he retweeted someone criticizing the prosecution of a teacher for abusing a student, just a couple of days ago. Apparently protecting minors is an example of American "Calvinist inheritance."

• Aside from Kirkegaard’s web of lies and deceptions to obfuscate service, I had to deal with him moving address to avoid enforcement. After he left his address in Kiel, I was informed by a journalist that he was sighted on the grounds of the Villa Adlon (a villa in the district of Potsdam). In December 2023, the German online newspaper Die Zeit reported Emil Kirkegaard was living on the grounds of the villa and was embroiled in yet another scandal. I hired a private investigator who confirmed to me he was at least visiting the guesthouse near the villa. The guesthouse’s mailbox was in his girlfriend’s name (I was shown a photograph of this) and I could not serve him by post. By January 2024, Kirkegaard was no longer spotted near the villa; he was rumoured to be in Spain.

• According to the article and investigative journalism by Die Zeit, the co-owner of Villa Adlon, Mathilda Huss gave Kirkegaard “free lodging” and “also supported Kirkegaard two years ago, in founding the Society for German-Danish Knowledge Transfer” (note this is the same company I months earlier had served Kirkegaard by publication in the District Court of Kiel). Huss, his business partner, seems to have given him a place (on the grounds of her villa) to stay or hide, after he deregistered from his property in Kiel. His girlfriend’s name was already on a mailbox. I was later informed that Kirkegaard’s girlfriend is Mathilda Huss’ au pair. Kirkegaard moved address again so I dropped the enforcement action, I had filed in the Potsdam Regional Court (Landgericht Potsdam).

Note: Mathilda Huss provided Villa Aldon to the infamous far-right Postdam meeting, which included neo-Nazi activists. This Huss-Kirkegaard connection is especially important because it demonstrates how the international neo-Nazi network will help members evade the law.

• In November 2024, I found Mankind Quarterly was offering to purchase subscriptions to the journal by PayPal. This opened up the possibility of a third-party debt order in the UK because PayPal UK Ltd is a subsidiary of PayPal Holdings Inc (the former is a private limited company in the UK with its office in London). It was clear from Hope not Hate’s undercover investigation (which was broadcast as Undercover: Exposing the Far Right) and the fact Kirkegaard is the domain registrant of Mankind Quarterly’s site that he now owned the journal.

• Aside from falsely accusing me of being a stalker, I received extensive abuse by emails under pseudonymous names when I was trying to enforce the judgment debt. It seems Kirkegaard was hiding behind these fake names (to avoid legal liability). He might not have realised, that the standard of proof in civil harassment is balance of probabilities and not evidence beyond reasonable doubt. I would only need to show it is more likely than not he sent these abusive emails. Who else would be taunting me about evading? I can only describe Kirkegaard’s behaviour as sociopathic: he filed and lost a frivolous lawsuit, refused to pay my legal costs, then was antagonising me about evading service under fake names sent from unsolicited emails while the same time playing the victim

• While writing this long post, I got in contact with Erik Ahrens now named Andrew Y who was a former friend and associate of Kirkegaard. As noted above, Ahrens fell out with Kirkegaard; he then published a blog post leaking information about Kirkegaard (such as Kirkegaard’s Human Diversity Foundation74) and his business connection to Mathilda Huss (screenshot). Ahrens confirmed Kirkegaard had lived at (or at least was visiting frequently) the Villa Adlon up to January 2024 but relocated to Spain; he lived in Spain for about five months and afterwards traveled to other countries. Ahrens told me he later moved to Berlin. I managed to confirm this, since Kirkegaard in his sworn affidavit (on 10 October 2025), explicitly stated his address was an apartment in Berlin.
• I consider Ahrens to be a reliable source of information concerning Kirkegaard (since most of his claims I have independently verified). Ahrens for months, had stayed with Kirkegaard at a house in Spain. Furthermore, he was formerly involved in setting up a company with Kirkegaard’s girlfriend (Liegent LLC) and was a close friend. According to Ahrens, Kirkegaard often discussed his dislike of me with him and openly admitted he was evading my enforcement proceedings. What Kirkegaard told Ahrens in private contradicted what he wrote in court witness statements, which sums up his dishonest character. Most concerning is Ahrens told me Kirkegaard planned in early 2024, to kill me by hiring a hitman on the dark web (as a way to stop paying me the judgment debt).

I was disappointed that Smith does not mention the 2023 smear campaign against him which included a hit piece in the Manhattan Institute's publication City Journal. The libelous article was promoted by a long list of right-wingers and racists, very much including Charles Murray and Steven Pinker. Smith successfully sued to have the article removed. 

Considering that the article was an attack on a private citizen who was owed money by Kirkegaard at the time, and considering the article attacks Rational Wiki, it looks to me like the article was published by City Jounal at the behest of Emil Kirkegaard. If true, that makes the Manhattan Institute part of the international neo-Nazi network.

Anybody who is opposed to racism and race pseudoscience should give thanks to Oliver Smith for fighting Emil Kirkegaard and documenting the fight - clearly the forces of the international neo-Nazi network - including Steven "friend of Epstein" Pinker - were brought in to try to destroy his life for daring to oppose racist, neo-Nazi weirdo Emil Kirkegaard.

UPDATE: Kirkegaard claims he's not sad the Nazis lost WWII - but somehow that doesn't stop him from promoting neo-Nazis, aligning with neo-Nazis, or continuing Mankind Quarterly which was created by Nazi-sympathizer money and devoted to the same race pseudoscience promoted by the original German Nazis.

Well, you can't expect logical consistency from neo-Nazi racist weirdos.

Books by Marvin Harris available for free

Pinkerite is a big fan of the cultural materialism promoted by anthropologist Marvin Harris. And I want to point out that most or all of his work is available for free on the Internet Archive.

I own most of these, but it's handy to have them in digital form - much easier to search on key words.

• America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture
• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: the Riddles of Culture
• Cultural Materialism : the Struggle for a Science of Culture  (personal favorite)
• Culture, People and Nature: an Introduction to General Anthropology
• Minorities in the New World: Six Case Studies - with Charles Wagley
• The Nature of Cultural Things
• The Rise of Anthropological Theory; a History of Theories of Culture (considered by many to be his most significant work)
• The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture
• Also published as Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture
• Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
• Town and Country in Brazil

"Cannibals and Kings," while shown in the Archive, is not available to borrow for free except for those with print disabilities. However, it is available for free here.

BONUS

Also available on the Internet Archive - from the Pacifica Radio archive, Harris is interviewed about the 1968 Columbia protests - The Columbia University Strike. Harris was roughed up by the cops.

Harris wrote an account of the strike for the Nation magazine, Big Bust on Morningside Heights.

Peter Thiel vs. the Catholic Church

 Peter Thiel's whacked-out antichrist babbling has gotten the attention of the Catholic Church:

This week, Mr. Thiel arrived in Rome to deliver four lectures on the Antichrist. The series, which began on Sunday, is exploring how “occult forces are ceaselessly at work, intent on destroying what remains of the West,” according to the conservative Christian group hosting him. 

 

In response, Catholics have decried Mr. Thiel’s vision in several articles over the past week. One was titled: “American heresy: Should we burn Peter Thiel?” 

 

Mr. Thiel held similar lectures in San Francisco last year and in Paris in January, prompting relatively little reaction from Christian thinkers. But proximity to the Vatican appears to have prompted some Roman Catholic commentators to issue a more sustained response. In the “American heresy” essay, the Rev. Paolo Benanti, an adviser to the Vatican on A.I., described Mr. Thiel’s vision as “disturbing.”

I mean, I can't stand the Catholic Church either, with its long tradition of hating women's sexuality and trying to control women's bodies, but it is probably still wealthier than Peter Thiel and so one of the few forces capable of shutting down his nutty antichrist babblings.

I wonder if Thiel still funds Quillette.

Is Nellie Bowles the worst writer in America?

The answer will not surprise you.

More at Defector:

It is not difficult to find praise for Nellie Bowles, who writes a weekly column for The Free Press, a website owned by her wife, Bari Weiss. "If you don’t read ⁦Nellie Bowles every Friday, you are leading a sad, barren, and empty existence," says Free Press columnist Niall Ferguson. Conservative writer Caitlin Flanagan says that Bowles's columns "have the exact spirit of the 70's writers whom I adored and who were so damn funny—and also deeply in the know. "

A couple of years ago her book was being trashed by enjoyers of good literature.

I will add that Bowles is also a terrible person, cheering on the stochastic terrorist Libs of TikTok versus a lesbian bar. It's what you expect for someone who is a courtier of wealthy fascists. And because she and her regime censor wife control so much media, there will always be toadies lower on the food chain to praise Bowles.

GREAT SPEECH BY OBAMA

 This is the best part.

Given at Jesse Jackson's memorial service.

As I was saying, John Oliver is a national treasure

John Oliver makes an excellent case for the fecklessness of Elon Musk, but he also mentions Harmeet Dhillon a lawyer who loves Trump and his fascist administration and was once (or still is?) the lawyer of far-right looney-toon grifter Andy Ngo. 

Claire Lehmann's Quillette used to promote his grift all the time.

Because we are living in Bizarro World, thanks to morons voting for a felon/rapist/traitor/psychopath, Dhillon is now "assistant attorney general for civil rights."

The fact that she promoted a bunch of monsters including the equally awful stochastic terrorist account Libs of TikTok tells you how horrible she is.

But the most important aspect of Oliver's piece is how utterly poisonous Twitter is - a force for pure evil. 

Oliver discusses the way that Twitter is apparently fiddling with its algorithm to push right-wing content. I hope those still on Substack - looking at you, Paul Krugman - are aware that Marc Andreessen is just as right-wing extremist and just as capable of tweaking the Substack algorithm.

And speaking of horrible people, Jesse Singal is promoting his anti-trans obsession while promoting his book in the NYTimes. He is an awful person, part of the race pseudoscience gang and an apologist for those other stochastic terrorists, Kiwi Farms.

The New York Times has a lot to answer for, over its campaign against trans-people.

Erin Reed has a response to Singal which is, unfortunately, on Substack.

Racist & misogynist club with Jeffrey Epstein, Steven Pinker and friends.

 I just recently saw this photo of a dinner party with Pinker and his Epstein circle.

This image is floating around various places, but I found this instance in the article The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

It's amazing how many images there are of Pinker with Epstein considering Pinker claims he avoided Epstein.

Of course Pinker's #1 fanboy, the embarassing Jerry Coyne, had to defend Pinker with the usual excuse whenever a member of the right-wing men's club is caught while up to some mischief: "guilt by association!"

Coyne has no response to Pinker's letter in 2012 saying he'd be delighted to meet with Epstein. Because Coyne simply ignores anything he doesn’t want to know.

Pinker could be seen promoting the career of racist and neo-Nazi Richard Hanania this month.

John Oliver, immigrant and national treasure

Happy can't wait until he's not president day.

And if you thought you couldn't hate ICE Barbie any more...

It's time for the 25th Amendment and time to vote every Republican out of office

But we won't use the 25th Amendment, because even though it is clear that Trump is a demented, Depends-wearing old psychopathic RACIST the Republican Party will not ever get rid of him because MOST REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST.

The Republican Party has destroyed the legacy of Lincoln. It should be disbanded and if not then every Republican should be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE.

Trump shares video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes

US President Donald Trump has shared a video on social media which included a racist clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. 

 

The clip - set to the song "the Lion Sleeps Tonight" - was at the end of a 62-second video containing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. 

 

Republican Senator Tim Scott - who is black - called for the president to remove the post, describing it as "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House". 

 

The White House defended the clip as an "internet meme video" and told critics to "stop the fake outrage".

Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web, Race Science and the Jeffrey Epstein files: "Steven Pinker is also a friend."

Steven Pinker praising "bad boy" Alan Dershowitz
in the October 2013 Harvard Law School video on
Youtube titled: "Celebrating Alan Dershowitz: teacher"
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If you do a search in the Justice Department's Epstein files on the name "Pinker" you will see the name is mentioned 416 times. 

In a few cases the name is not connected to Steven Pinker - his sister Susan appears a few times and at least one other person named Pinker is mentioned, but the vast majority of mentions are Steven Pinker.

The most important information about Pinker's connection to Epstein has long been known:  Pinker helped Epstein's lawyer Alan Dershowitz defend Epstein in 2007.

The phrase "had sex with Dershowitz" appears 53 times in the Epstein files, as in:

• "This makes [redacted] the second woman to allege that she had sex with Dershowitz at the behest of Epstein..."

• The second time that I had sex with Dershowitz was at Epstein's house in Palm Beach. During this encounter, Dershowitz instructed me to both perform oral sex and have sexual intercourse.

• I had sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six times. The first time was when I was about 16, early on in my servitude to Epstein, and it continued until I was 19.

A lot of the documents in the Epstein files are duplicates or at least the information is duplicated across many documents. And to be fair, I only did a half-assed job of searching every file in which Pinker's name appears. So I could have missed something. But still, I did find some items of interest:

On March 28, 2012 Pinker received an email from Epstein's assistant:

Hello Steven. Jeffrey Epstein will be making a trip up to Harvard on Sunday April 15th. He is wondering if you might be around and available to meet with him?

To which Pinker responded:

Unfortunately I'm out of town that day, but if Jeffrey is around on Monday the 16th, I'll be back and would be delighted to meet with him.

This was five years after 2007, when Pinker had helped Dershowitz defend Epstein, and four years after Epstein pled guilty to state charges: one count of solicitating prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18.

In his response to Jeffrey Epstein's request, on June 23, 2015, to give Pinker's email address to Stephen Hawking, infamous sex pest Lawrence Krauss (his full name appears 5,209 times in the Epstein files) wrote:

Thanks. I don't normally give out email addresses, even to friends... but I guess since Jeffrey flew stephen on a plane it is ok.

An article published in the NYTimes a couple of months ago discusses Krauss's and Robert Trivers's connections to Epstein. They sound like a delightful couple of guys:

In 2018, Mr. Epstein forwarded Mr. Krauss a list of attendees for the Women in the World Summit, a convention of female leaders and activists. Mr. Krauss responded, “Let’s do a men of the world conference,” and listed men accused of misconduct: Kevin Spacey, Bill Clinton, Al Franken and Woody Allen.

The evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers is also mentioned in the new tranche of emails. In 2015, he told Reuters that Mr. Epstein had given him about $40,000 for his research. And he defended Mr. Epstein, saying girls mature sooner than they used to. “By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don’t see these acts as so heinous,” he said to Reuters.

John Brockman, the guy who edited the Epstein-funded Edge, wrote to Epstein on June 2, 2011:

Strangely, the usual billionaire crowd is not showing up for this one, so I am running hard to revision it as a serious science event, inviting more third culture intellectuals and also the global press (NYTimes, WSJ, NYorker, Economist, etc.) Ultlimately it will be a much stronger and more important event, but it's not the one advertised to you. The list status is below. (Btw, I hope you will come (Martin and Pinker would be very happy if your showed up) but will understand if you want out.

I believe Martin refers to Harvard professor Martin Nowak.

Brockman sent this email to Epstein on May 3, 2015:

I saw your boys, the Dersh, and Larry Summers, at a dinner Pinker had for Rebecca's birthday. Poor guy, he's going out for his wife, and then, the day before the event, Ilarry, his father dies. And while his whole family was in Montreal and in mourning, he persevered with smile on his face and only his close friends knew.

I talked to the Dersh - what a story! David Boies!! What's going on? Didn't talk to Summers.

Summers is a well-known good buddy of Epstein. "the Dersh" is of course Alan Dershowitz.

On February 8, 2012, Epstein wrote to Brian Boyd:

i look forward to sponsoring your dream work . 75k. we will work out the details.. Steve Pinker is also a friend. ( since you seemed to hold him in high regard )

Boyd is a University of Auckland professor  who "met disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for breakfast, and later discussed the fee that Epstein offered to pay him to write about Nabokov’s novel Lolita."

Epstein acknowledges his "colorful past" in this letter to Bill Gates on December 4, 2013:

1. I remembered I did speak to your cfo in the past , but I believe he thought at that time that my colorful past could become an issue . the time is now ripe. 2. the event in April 4-6 0 will be with Pinker, venter . sr martin rees frank wilcek, . 6 or 7 nobel prize winners. lawrence krauss. richard dawkins...

Perhaps the most pathetic figure out of all the celebrity intellectuals collected by Epstein is Stephen M. Kosslyn, who wrote to Epstein on January 3, 2013:

Dear Jeffrey:

Thank you very much for your note, which means a lot to me. You are probably not aware of this, but I consider you one of my only real friends -- you don't want anything from me, don't try to push any agendas on me, and you care about me. The feeling is mutual.

Imagine having a rapist psychopath as one of your only real friends.

Of course you knew there would be a connection between Kosslyn and Pinker, evident in an article that is included in the Epstein files:

...Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker credits Kosslyn, his former graduate adviser, with breathing new life into another venerable institution. "The Harvard University psychology department had been a backwater, coasting on its reputation, before Steve reinvigorated it in the 1990s with an aggressive program of hiring young mid-career scientists, which vaulted the department into the front ranks," says Pinker, who joined the department in 2003. Pinker also cites Kosslyn's leadership through the financial crisis as evidence that he's the right peron to turn around the Stanford center: "I'd be surprised if Steve didn't make the center financially viable and intellectually vibrant within a few years:'

What damn fools these self-impressed academics are. 

I have not spent much time on this Pinkerite blog discussing Pinker's connection to Epstein, although most people are far more interested in that than in Pinker's 25 years - at least - of promoting hereditarianism and professional racists like Steve Sailer and Razib Khan, and writing for the racist publication Quillette and appearing on the Neo-Nazi podcast Aporia (owned by Emil Kirkegaard, a pedophilia apologist.)

But it's clear that Epstein pleading guilty to raping kids did not bother him at all. I noted in the last post that Pinker's racist ally Claire Lehmann has a history of not caring about pedophilia and is a huge fan of Camille "North American Man/Boy Love Association" Paglia.

Pinker is a fan of Paglia too, mentioning her in his Blank Slate as one of the good (i. e. misogynist) "feminists."

I think that Pinker, like many in his wealthy "celebrity intellectual" cohort, believes that moral and ethical concerns don't apply to him. That's why he screams "guilt by association" whenever anybody mentions the awful people he allies with.

So why wouldn't he be delighted to meet with Epstein in 2012? 

Why wouldn't Jeffrey Epstein consider him a friend?

UPDATE: 

Great article in The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto that mentions the connection between Epstein and his friends and the Intellectual Dark Web:

Being able to see their emails makes something very clear: The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo. Reading through the emails, it’s possible to see that Epstein himself coordinated pushback against #MeToo. Looking back, it seems obvious that sinking #MeToo also led to where we are now: a place where laws simply don’t apply if you have enough money and power. The same players are involved. 

 

Recall the great many pronouncements about the limits and dangers of #MeToo — hilariously, Bari Weiss wrote an entire article in The New York Times about “iconoclastic” members of the “intellectual dark web” who “talk constantly about the regressive left but far less about the threat from the right.” Included in this group was a correspondent of Epstein’s: Sam Harris, to whom Epstein suggested he use “more charm and less argument” in debates. Several of the names mentioned in the article would later join Weiss’ abortive attempt at an “independent” school, the non-accredited University of Austin. Much like the group Weiss profiles itself, the University of Austin would become a tool of the far right.

UPDATE 2

Here's something I missed - Pinker was paid $10,000 for helping to defend Epstein.