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Friday, August 21, 2026

Hereditarian KKKomedy gold

The international hereditarian network has come out to support racist ghoul Nathan Confas after he was suspended by Ghent University.

Ghent University never should have hired him in the first place, since his academic career is founded on the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology. I will be talking about that in-depth soon

Cofnas decided to make a big funny joke about his campaign against Jason Arday. As Lauren Michele Jackson writes in The New Yorker:

Razib Khan is a comedian too 
 
 
I do agree with Harper that Arday, sanctified before the fall, was not seen as a person by the people and institutions to whom his story would be of use—only “a hook for a story,” as Cofnas said on Montz’s podcast. Arday is dead and still being propped up as an example of various crises, by commentators unconcerned with his memory. As for the “race-realist” at Ghent, he told Montz, “I’m still waiting for the revolution to happen, and then I’ll get another job.” 
 
He added, jokingly, “After the revolution, I’ll be the head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard.”


Except it isn't a joke. Cofnas published his very own race war manifesto a couple of years ago, on Substack, the comfy home for Nazis. It is entitled "A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution." Harvard is mentioned five times. Towards the end he shares his vision, including his "permanent solution" involving "self-segregating communities."

In the light of race differences, certain core liberal values will have to be reexamined.

We will probably have to rethink ideals like multiculturalism and a borderless world.

Legislators should take into consideration how their policies will influence the racial makeup of society, and what effects this is likely to have.

After knowledge of race differences spreads, people's moral intuitions will start to adjust, and institutions and social norms will increasingly reflect the new preferences of the elites. There will be a multidecadal transition period between wokism and a new, reality-based system, which will require various stopgap measures. In the short run, it may be necessary to guarantee some minimal representation in certain leadership positions to major demographic groups. That doesn't mean we need quotas to ensure proportional representation of blacks at Google, Harvard, and air traffic control. But when it comes to policy making in a multiracial society, we might need to make sure that everyone feels they have a voice in determining our collective fate. In the long run, a more permanent solution may be to grant communities more freedom to organize themselves according to different values. Divisions won't necessarily be made along racial lines, although it's likely that many self-segregating communities will be relatively homogeneous.

Yes, Cofnas is Jewish and you would think that a Jew would avoid advocating a vision of the world so in debt to the Nazi mindset, but Cofnas is also a fucking moron.

People who advocate evolutionary psychology, like Steven Pinker and Kathryn Paige Harden, have a lot to answer for, promoting hereditarian bullshit until morons start to talk like Adolf Hitler.

Harden is mentioned at the end of the manifesto, which I will be writing about soon.

And Cofnas is not alone, the international hereditarian network is in place, funded in part by far-right plutocrats, working full-time to promote Cofnas, no matter how fucking stupid he is.

The campaign against Arday isn't the first one by the international hereditarian network against someone they thought was vulnerable - they did the same thing three years ago and the mainstream media completely ignored how the conservative media enabled neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard's campaign against a guy who won against Kirkegaard in court and to whom Kirkegaard owed money. 

The campaign was started by an article in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal and then some of the more prominent racist ghouls like Charles Murray and Steven Pinker promoted it as hard as they could. Luckily the target of their campaign did not kill himself.

I predicted that the international hereditarian network would be dancing on Arday's corpse for weeks to come, and the Cofnas suspension gave them all the excuse they needed.

And so here, for your disgust, are prominent members of the international hereditarian network, doing their best to give aid and comfort to one of the most grotesque racists to come down the pike since neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard. 

All of them have been mentioned on this blog, some many times. Some of them work for Kirkegaard, some of them, like Jesse Singal, write for The New York Times, and all of them are shameless gutter racists. When Cofnas talks about " the new preferences of the elites" these are the people he has in mind.

So sorry you have to look at this but war is hell and race war doubly so.














UPDATE - more gutter racists come crawling out of the woodwork:


I recognized several names of racists and far-right ghouls, which I've written about on this blog: Alex Byrne, Colin Wright, Russell T. Warne, Eric Rasmusen, Richard Haier, Eric Kaufmann, Satoshi Kanazawa and Lee Jussim.

Link to an archive of the document of shame.

UPDATE 2

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and will be interested in noticing Alexander Kustov on the list of signatories.
roterote
 @roterote.bsky.social
· 5h
All of these people signed from Universities around the world. This is a clear example how easily it was for Nazi Academics to take over the academy in the 1930s and 1940s. People will defend people whose views would see them all destroyed and most in camps.
Oh, hello there, Alessandro Strumio, my little misogynist friend. What slides have you prepared for us today? Did you dream up some numbers about IQ?
I know the names and public commentary of 19 of the 134 signatories on a protest letter which valiantly claims to defend the academic freedom of a postdoc fellow at a little-known university in Belgium. That level on name recognition is a red flag. bsky.app/profile/katj...
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
 @katjathieme.bsky.social
· 1h
I know so many names. Always surprises me a little, I don’t set out to know these networks, they insinuate themselves on my work. Clearly it can only be a crank/pseudoscience issue if I know half the names if signatories on a protest against an internal process at a uni halfway around the world.
If it is not a red flag for you, then consider that this is an internal investigation against one postdoc at a university with 50K students and 9K administrative staff (see Wikipedia). Yet there’s only one signatory from that uni. The supervisor who, with no committee input, hired that one postdoc.
So, we know that among the several thousand faculty at Ghent University only the one lone-hiring supervisor is willing to claim that this is an academic freedom issue which must be publicly condemned. You can now count how many academics from the same UK institutions have signed this letter.
Up to 23 out of 156 now—names of people whose public work I know. I was about to say: wait what, where’s Steven Pinker? But he’s there folks, he’s stepped right onto the mat. bsky.app/profile/rote...
roterote
 @roterote.bsky.social
· 2h
And more of them. These academics are being played for fools and some are just Cofnas’s fellow travelers.
In other words, this defence network in favour of race science has its most established academic insiders placed at UK and US universities. We’re talking about a uni in Belgium, where teaching is in Dutch. And the signatories are mostly reactionary academics seated in the UK and the US.
3:39 PM · Aug 22, 2026



It’s a very funny undercurrent to the reactionary academic movement that they never seem to understand what open letters are for and supposed to do.
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
 @katjathieme.bsky.social
· 58m
In other words, this defence network in favour of race science has its most established academic insiders placed at UK and US universities. We’re talking about a uni in Belgium, where teaching is in Dutch. And the signatories are mostly reactionary academics seated in the UK and the US.
Oh word? Steven Pinker, Alessandro Strumia, and Dorian Abbott think a racist shouldn’t be fired despite clear violations of university rules? That changes everything!

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