What does Manhattan Institute pay Colin Wright for?

Apparently Colin Wright's job is to post this emoticon all day on his Bluesky account. He's posted it at least a dozen times.

😘

It reminds me of Wright's buddy James Lindsay, who thought it very clever indeed to respond to people on Xitter with some variation of "your mom."

Wright, former managing editor of racist Quillette, testified on Xitter what a big influence the oafish anti-Semite Lindsay was on his own political views.

Colin Wright and James Lindsay count as intellectuals in right-wing circles. Which is why, I assume, the Manhattan Institute made Wright one of its fellows. Colin Wright is officially on wingnut welfare.

The Manhattan Institute is right-wing trash, and it publishes garbage rag City Journal. I was just talking about City Journal and its connection to Heather "great replacement" Mac Donald a week or so ago.

As readers of Pinkerite may recall, City Journal was sued last year for publishing a defamatory article against a guy who was - and still is - owed money by neo-Nazi kook Emil Kirkegaard. 

City Journal retracted the article.

It seems very likely that either Kirkegaard wrote the article himself, or it was written at his request. 

Now it must have been pushed for publication by an important Manhattan Institute donor (Kirkegaard himself?) because I don't think even the ghouls who edit City Journal are really interested in Emil Kirkegaard's personal finances. 

But City Journal does have alleged editors:

• Brian C. Anderson Editor, City Journal
• Steven Malanga Senior Fellow | Senior Editor
• Paul Beston Managing Editor
• John Hirschauer Associate Editor
• Daniel Kennelly Associate Editor
• Theodore Kupfer Associate Editor
• Jordan McGillis Economics Editor, City Journal

One of Colin Wright's biggest thrills was from his stickman cartoon, which was re-tweeted by Elon Musk. 

Wright immediately tried to monetize it.

I assume that like the oafish Lindsay, Wright thinks he's very clever. But in fact, his cartoon is simply an illustration of what life has always been like for people who are conservative by nature. 

The illustration shows Colin Wright - I assume that's who "me" is. In 2008 he was left of center. But those "woke progressives" ran farther away from the center, somehow causing the hapless Wright to slide to right of center.

Now in this example, this slide happened due to "woke" beliefs - the beliefs that Black Lives Matter and that trans lives matter. 

But I'm sure many "left of center" people throughout human history have gone on the same "political journey" as Wright as they've gotten older.

Take the issue of slavery. Those on the right were whole-heartedly in favor of slavery. But those slightly left of center believed that slaves should be set free some day, maybe when slavery died out all by itself. And once they were free they should move to Haiti.  

Meanwhile the left was saying that slaves had the right to be free, immediately, and live in the United States.

Then one day John Brown came along and tried to start a slave insurrection. Many on the left thought that it was a great idea. That was when the left stretched farther to the left, as in Wright's stick figure graphic - thanks to the hardcore abolitionists of 1859.

They were considered so radical they were even called "Radical Republicans" back in the day long before the Republican Party became the party of fascism. 

But conservatives who thought they were pretty liberal - center left - for believing that slavery should end some day thought the Radicals were crazy, and suspected them of being open to personal, even sexual relationships with Black people, a thought that horrified the "center left."

And so it goes, from one progressive cause to the next - women's suffrage, the labor movement, gay rights, etc. etc. All causes that were once considered radical.

When he was young, Colin Wright approved of things that had been radical twenty years before. But as he got older and was confronted with new progressive causes that he did not grow up with - trans rights and diversity, equity and inclusion - he decided that change should stop.

So Colin Wright's political journey is nothing new. It's the same old same old.

It's just a matter of time before Wright is telling those kids to get off his lawn, like his ideological ally Jerry Coyne.

Compare people like Colin Wright to Abraham Lincoln. Like Wright, when he was younger, Abe Lincoln was center-left - he wanted slaves to be free, and he believed that slaves would eventually be free, maybe in about a hundred years. And he was in favor of "colonization" the term for sending free Black people to Haiti or elsewhere.

When the Civil War came, probably influenced by Frederick Douglass and others, Abraham Lincoln moved towards the left until, at the very end of the war, he gave a speech in favor of Black voting rights, an extremely radical position at the time.

That's the primary reason John Wilkes Booth shot him, according to historian Michael Burlingame. 

I think it's a safe bet that Colin Wright will never die for a noble cause.

Pinkerite is a member of the elite now

Plutocrat bootlicker Jesse Singal is one of the top accounts blocked by other accounts on Bluesky, along with Brianna Wu.

Here they are both at Bari Weiss's Free Press election party, along with other grifters and ghouls like Coleman Hughes, Michael Shellenberger and Nellie Bowles.

 

The reason Wu is part of the IDW/Quillette/Free Press gang of grifters and booklickers is very likely because she was offered a sweet deal to work for them and couldn't resist. After all, Bari Weiss has connections to both Peter Thiel and Harlan Crow, and other insanely fascistic billionaires who are eager to spend their money on the future, Mr. Gittes, the future!

It's a classic right-wing move to hire a member of any group the right wishes to attack, so they can say "see, even one of THEM hates liberals and the left." That's why Coleman Hughes is part of this gang of race pseudoscience promoters, and why anti-feminists Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Sommers have careers at all. Now the gang has Brianna Wu to promote anti-trans views along with the likes of Jesse Singal.

Singal blocked my Pinkerite account, but I can still view his skeets via a Bluesky-affiliated website called Clearsky, which is also where I got the blocking statistics. I'm also blocked by Claire Lehmann and Razib Khan. But I can see their skeets on Clearsky too.

You can get an idea of how tight-knit the gang of bootlickers is by how fast Claire Lehmann and Razib Khan, both promoters of race pseudoscience beliefs - or as Lehmann prefers, "hereditarian" beliefs - jumped in to support Jesse Singal.

But also thanks to Clearsky, I've discovered I'm a member of the elite now. Razib Khan has blocked only a few Bluesky accounts: my two accounts and accounts for Jamelle Bouie and Molly Jong-Fast. And another person I wasn't familiar with, Erin Reed - but if she's blocked by Razib Khan, she must be good.

Racist Claire Lehmann and her goon squad

I wasn't paying attention to Claire Lehmann on Bluesky, because I assumed she had already blocked my Bluesky Pinkerite account since she's a snowflake and she already blocked my other account. 

But while I wasn't looking she was replying to my skeets about her and her grotesquely racist friends. People like Steve Sailer and the neo-Nazi Aporia gang. 

And her goon squad was thrilled.

Now that I've responded to her of course she will block me, so I made sure to grab some screen caps.

(Update: yes she did block me.)

Here are the racists and right-wing grifters that Claire Lehmann recommends others should follow:

Charles Murray, Bari Weiss, Eric Weinstein, Jonathan Haidt,  Jordan Lasker (aka Cremieux),  Jonah Goldberg, Nicholas Christakis, Iona Italia, Jerry Coyne, Razib Khan, Michael Shermer, Steve Sailer, Aporia and of course the racist rag she founded, Quillette.

Elon Musk has always been a promoter of race pseudoscience and now he owns America

It was inevitable that X would become a vector of race pseudoscience.

Some people like to imagine that Musk was radicalized by the existing racist content on Twitter/X. But Musk and his PayPal pal Peter Thiel have been racists for a long time - probably their entire lives considering that Musk comes from South Africa and Thiel comes from hyper-Christian German immigrants who became "fanatical Republicans" and, like Musk, grew up in South Africa during apartheid.

But they even brought their racist beliefs into the workplace, as discussed in "Contrarian" the book about Thiel by Max Chafkin. Thiel was a founder of the now-defunct Clarium Capital, and Musk was an investor (my emphasis):

Clarium employees read, played chess, and debated (sample topic: If you were going to design a country from scratch, what would it look like?) Everyone spent a lot of time talking politics, though it was important that those politics always be of the right-wing variety. An employee told me that it was common to hear talk about climate change denial and to see web browsers open to VDARE, the far-right website with a long record of publishing white nationalist writing. There were liberals at Clarium, but they understood that it was best to keep those views quiet. 

VDARE, which also seems to be defunct now - hooray - is about the most racist organization this side of American Renaissance. VDARE was infamous recently for buying a castle in West Virginia.

But is VDARE really necessary for white supremacists now? 

After all, Elon Musk, stochastic terrorist, white supremacist, anti-Semite, misogynist and best buddy of fascist Trump, possessor of many US government contracts and beneficiary of billions in US government subsidies, and all around horrible human being, now owns America.

Blocked on Bluesky by the snowflakes of Quillette

So many ghouls and grifters and racists are stinking up Bluesky now. I haven't been blocked yet by Charles Murray, Aporia and Steve Sailer, but it's just a matter of time.

Meanwhile the racists who can't stand being called racists have blocked me: Iona Italia, managing editor of Quillette, Razib Khan, long time contributor to Quillette, Claire Lehmann, founder of Quillette and Quillette itself.

Extremist kook Heather Mac Donald attacks historian David Blight

Heather Mac Donald, promoter of the racist, neo-Nazi "great replacement theory", is so extreme that she attacked the babbling billionaire patron saint of the far-right, Peter Thiel, simply because he is gay:

Ms. Mac Donald emailed some of the same people about news reports that a boyfriend of Mr. Thiel — nominally their ally in the rising “national conservatism” movement — had committed suicide after a confrontation with Mr. Thiel’s husband at a party. Calling the episode “a scandal,” she opined that gay men “are much more prone” to extramarital affairs “on the empirical basis of testosterone unchecked by female modesty.” She added mockingly that a friend had once tried to convince her “how wonderful Thiel’s ‘husband’ was.”

Mac Donald's career is so disreputable, (although I am sure well-remunerated), that her claim to fame these days is writing for the garbage City Journal, which published a defamatory, pseudononymous article attacking a guy who is owed money by racist kook Emil Kirkegaard. City Journal removed the article after it was sued by the target of its smear campaign, and eventually settled.

That article was almost certainly written on behalf of - or even by - Kirkegaard, who is at the center of an international racist/fascist network funded by plutocrats, a network that includes the Neo-Nazi magazine Aporia.

Mac Donald is such a racist she appeared on the Aporia podcast.

So it is no surprise that Mac Donald also showed up recently in the garbage, racist Quillette, attacking Frederick Douglass biographer David Blight for his NYTimes editorial.

Pinkerite is a big fan of Blight.

Mac Donald writes:

...it is delusional to call Trump’s voters “neofascists.” They do not seek the end of democracy, they just want their voice back...

Then at the end of her screed writes:

Blight’s op-ed epitomises the cocooned state of contemporary academia. Universities should face a choice: Forgo the billions of taxpayer dollars that underwrite their bloated tuitions, politicised bureaucracies, and one-sided intellectual orthodoxies or accept strict conditions of colourblindness, admissions transparency, and political neutrality in every aspect of their operations. The Yale faculty and its counterparts throughout the country will undoubtedly feel under siege from unsophisticated “culture warriors,” but it is those who believe in preserving Western culture who now need to stand up and take the universities back. 

As Mac Donald's ally Jay Greene of the Heritage Foundation explains:

Taxpayers should not pay for building the research infrastructure at wealthy universities that already have sufficient private funds for that purpose.

It's unlikely that preventing universities from receiving research money is a top priority for most Trump voters, and even Greene admits that wealthy universities can get along without those taxpayer dollars.

So simply cutting off tax money for research will not be enough to make Yale and esteemed scholars like David Blight bow down before Heather Mac Donald's white supremacist agenda. And I'm sure Mac Donald knows that.

The only way Mac Donald's dream of total domination of American universities can be achieved would be via the Trump administration. That is how the fascist portion of Trump's voting block would "get their voice back." By suppressing universities, Nazi-style. 

And Mac Donald will certainly not shed a single tear if that happens.

Steven Pinker thinks Mac Donald is brilliant. Because of course he does.

Delusional religious fanatic Peter Thiel is still delusional

As noted by SFGate:

The PayPal billionaire and longtime California resident is back in the news this week, joining media provocateur Bari Weiss’s “Honestly” podcast for its Nov. 14 episode. About 10 minutes into the two-hour conversation, Thiel, an early supporter of Donald Trump, let fly a truly bizarre metaphor. 

 

He’d been talking about the “intellectual straightjacket” that he sees the Democratic Party forcing people into. He said there’s no room for “individual thought” on the left — not mentioning Trump’s sidelining of the critics within his party — before explaining his point with a “Star Wars” reference.

"Provocateur" is a funny way to describe Weiss. I think "handmaiden to fascist plutocrats" is more accurate.

I have no doubt that Thiel has funded Weiss's "Free Press" project in an effort to add to the right-wing media network led for so long by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News.

To get an idea of how truly weird and semi-coherent and religion-fanatical Thiel is, check out my transcript of his speech from a few years ago, given to the right-wing whine festival, known as the "Stanford Academic Freedom Conference." It was an event where hardcore racists like Amy Wax could go to complain that they get pushback when they publicly attack non-white people.

Thiel himself has used Star Wars references before, to express his own extreme racism:

These were Thiel’s people, and he spoke at the closed-press event with a lot less nuance than he had in our interviews. His after-dinner remarks were full of easy applause lines and in-jokes mocking the left. Universities had become intellectual wastelands, obsessed with a meaningless quest for diversity, he told the crowd. The humanities writ large are “transparently ridiculous,” said the onetime philosophy major, and “there’s no real science going on” in the sciences, which have devolved into “the enforcement of very curious dogmas.” 

 

Thiel reprised his longtime critique of “the diversity myth.” He made a plausible point about the ideological monoculture of the DEI industry: “You don’t have real diversity,” he said, with “people who look different but talk and think alike.” Then he made a crack that seemed more revealing. 

 

“Diversity—it’s not enough to just hire the extras from the space-cantina scene in Star Wars,” he said, prompting laughter.

The IDW fascists are coming for the Southern Poverty Law Center again

Elon Musk and Seth Dillon are both stochastic terrorists, and friends of the Intellectual Dark Web, which has been targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center for a long time.

The article they are so mad about is Inside the Beehive:

An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth Dillon, along with the identities of 14 pseudonymous Not the Bee writers, despite the website’s efforts to keep information secure.

Pinkerite is 6 years old

The big news of the year of course was that the race pseudoscience candidate Donald Trump is back in power in spite of being a rapist, a traitor and a felon 34 times over. He's ready to destroy American democracy,

I am curious to see Steven Pinker's reaction - last I heard he was not a fan of Trump in spite of so many of his IDW fellow travelers being on the side of fascism - but I can't be bothered to go look on Twitter anymore and see if he tweeted about it. It's such garbage thanks to Musk.

The second biggest news is the banger of an expose on Emil Kirkegaard and his racist machinations from Hope not Hate. 

And also that the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) let  Kirkegaard participate in its conference this year. 

I created a database of people mentioned in all ISIR conference programs.

And last November Kirkegaard was in German news for his connection to the German fascist political organization Alternative für Deutschland.

So what else have I talked about in the past year?

• I discovered who Marc Andreessen is. Ugh.
• I created a Rational Wiki article for Richard Haier.
• I wrote about the Neo-Nazi connections of the ISIR
• I wrote about Richard Jensen, patron saint of the ISIR, and his feeble "science" 
• I was one degree from Rachel Maddow (sort of) thanks to John Jackson
• I discovered that ANTIFA has been doing the work the FBI should be doing in monitoring and countering far-right racist organizations. And thanks to the Trump election, they will likely continue to do the FBI's work.
• Steve Sailer was sued, Pinkerite got a third citation and Jerry Seinfeld was palling around with Bari Weiss.

The top most-visited individual posts this year:

• PZ Myers dissects evolutionary psychology: brief, sharp and fabulous - 551

• Jerry Seinfeld is apparently a member of the Bari Weiss right-wing racist club - 482

• Polite Conversations' Eiynah and her revealing interview with Sam Harris - 409

• Sabine Hossenfelder and the Intellectual Dark Web - 252

• Jerry Coyne promotes racist neo-Nazi Bo Winegard's racist Substack Aporia ~ Steven Pinker promotes an attack on a critic of Bo Winegard and Emil Kirkegaard - 220

• Aporia - the most prominent bunker full of racists on Substack - 192

• Steven Pinker fights to maintain his title of "World's Most Annoying Man" - 191

• The Institute of Mental Chronometry gives money to its gang members - and the University of Minnesota is so proud - 163

• Is Emil Kirkegaard taking refuge from the law in DAS LANDHAUS ADLON? - 163


• The Brian Ferguson Interview - 150

Conversation with a grifter

Has it only been four years since the sleazy Harpers Letter guy,  Thomas Chatterton Williams blocked me on Twitter?

He's shown up on Bluesky - Tom Scocca immediately blocked him.

I couldn't resist engaging. 

The level of Williams' weaseliness is truly breath-taking, he's right up there with Steven Pinker - he even uses Pinker's favorite get-out-of-jail-free card, "guilt by association."

To get some idea of how extremely pro-Trump the gang at Bari Weiss' Free Press is, look no further than their celebration of Trump's win, posted to the Free Press site. Oh and it turns out Brianna Wu is now a right-wing grifting asshole. I guess the price was right.

Curiously Williams has his own page on Free Press, but no articles associated with it. Which I assume means he's on staff, and doesn't need to display articles in order to justify a connection to Free Press.

Meanwhile Williams is claiming to be concerned about the looming Trump dictatorship.

It was clear to me that Williams is not very bright when he was interviewed in the New Yorker by Ian Chotiner. But I'm only now realizing how incredibly shameless Williams is. I don't think I've ever spoken to someone with so little personal integrity.

Razib Khan is also on Bluesky now, but immediately blocked me.

Yes of course the Trump administration is the Intellectual Dark Web administration

Pinker dancing for joy over Trump's
defeat in 2020
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Yes, like the Intellectual Dark Web, the Trump administration is chock-full of unqualified morons, racists, grifters and right-wing extremist plutocrats. 

I made the connection between J. D. Vance and the IDW back in August.

Trump supporters Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are hard-core believers in race pseudoscience - I noted Trump was pushing race pseudoscience during the campaign.

The Conversation, an opinion website funded foremost by religious conservatives, is celebrating this victory of IDW-style racism and fascism über alles in an article by Jamie Q. Roberts.

Roberts, an Australian, is a true believer in the Intellectual Dark Web, working on a forthcoming book about the IDW.

It's obvious that Roberts adores the idiocracy:

Donald Trump had his own celebrities, such as Hulk Hogan, but he was also supported by a group of converted Democrats: Joe Rogan, Tulsi Gabbard, (just chosen as Trump’s director of national intelligence), Robert F. Kennedy Jr (Trump’s pick to head the federal health agency), and Elon Musk, who has been selected to co-lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. 

Rogan is a self-confessed moron.

Gabbard is also a moron and a Russian asset.

Stephen Colbert recently had some great lines about Gabbard: “Tulsi Gabbard has been named Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Now, I... I... I have met this woman. I interviewed Tulsi Gabbard right over there during the 2020 presidential campaign, and I gotta say... uh... when, I think Tulsa Gabbard, the word intelligence is not the first one that comes to mind. Or the second. And, a reminder, a reminder: Gabbard is known for spreading Russian propaganda on fringe, far right sites, which is why Hillary Clinton said Tulsa Gabbard is being groomed by Russia, but only because she’s too old to be groomed by Matt Gaetz.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaxxer and animal-corpse-abusing kook.

Elon Musk is also a Russian asset and a full-blown corrupt oligarch in the Russian tradition, who needs to be deported back to South Africa.

The best part of the article though is when Roberts links Trump's victory to the IDW grift of Steven Pinker.

While Trump won for many reasons, including immigration and the economy, my sense is that Trump, forever the populist, harnessed a widespread dissatisfaction with a form of identity politics promulgated by a quite often well-paid, white-collar class: psychologist Steven Pinker’s “chattering class.”

Pinker can be seen a month ago worrying about a Trump presidency. While comparing Trump's fascism to "culture wars" and the woke mob.

Pinker's dislike of Trump while loving much of what Trump stands for is likely more evidence of Pinker's intellectual incoherence: he likes to have things both ways, a personality trait which many critics have noticed.

I hope Steven Pinker's devotion to the IDW grift will henceforth be recognized as an important factor in the triumph of fascism over American democracy.

Trump voters sold out American democracy to save a few bucks - and they won't even get that once Trump's tariffs kick in

From the Philadelphia Inquirer 

Idiots who voted for a treasonous fascist rapist conman will get a rude wake-up call once they realize that Trump's tariffs will make the economy worse and they've been conned again.

Excellent piece by Stewart Lee in the Guardian

If I were Captain America, I’d quit

But, one has to ask, if Jenrick’s so worried about sex offenders being on the loose, why is he so pleased that one is now in the White House? 

“If I were an American citizen, I would be voting for Donald Trump”, the child-hating sod told GB News’s calcified opinion-vampire Camilla Tominey, Britain’s 49th most influential rightwing figure, in September. It looks like it’s one rule for white working class British rapists and quite another for orange American billionaire sex offenders with their fingers on the nuclear codes. Two-tier Jenrick can do one! Accommodating Donald Trump will invalidate us all.

The fight against race pseudoscience continues

Yes the coming Trump fascist state will be a big boost to right-wing racist filth like Emil Kirkegaard and his neo-Nazi patrons and racist plutocrat scum like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen. And race pseudoscience mainstreamers like Steven Pinker and the International Society for Intelligence Research.

I admit I will get a sick chuckle out of watching the early days of the Trump administration as all the ghouls line up to see who can kiss the Orange Obscenity's ass the most self-servingly and hold competitions to try to bottom each other over who can grovel the most grotesquely.

Does anybody doubt that the second Trump administration is going to be insane?

As Trump's dementia continues to get worse and his actions become more erratic, Musk, Kennedy, Bannon, Don Jr., Vance and many others are going to get into power struggles over who can control Trump to their best advantage.

It will be an absolute shitshow.

Now, more than ever, there must be no tolerance for the intolerant.

Imagine voting for this demented freak

Calling Trump supporters "garbage" is not fair to garbage.

Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?

Yes, that is the Republican candidate for president.

But even as Trump’s rhetoric grows darker and more unhinged as election day approaches on Tuesday, and many voters — after nine years of insults and lies — have become numb to it, maybe you still thought Trump crossed a line with his comments about golfing legend Arnold Palmer’s penis.

Well, it turns out the 78-year-old former president and Republican presidential nominee has even more penis comedy material — an impersonation of Linda Lovelace.

Trump, in one of his final rallies on Friday night, simulated sexually stroking and then performing oral sex on his malfunctioning microphone in Milwaukee.

I cannot stop laughing.

More media

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/11/trump-simulates-oral-sex-stage#google_vignette

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/trump-simulates-giving-oral-sex-to-rally-microphone/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-pantomimes-oral-sex-at-rally/680511/

https://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-blow-job-oral-sex-microphone-rally/

https://allhiphop.com/news/donald-trump-mimics-oral-sex-microphone-rally/

https://www.ibtimes.com/social-media-erupts-after-what-trump-does-dead-mic-blows-it-3749241

Adam Rutherford says no to racist $1K

Adam Rutherford, a long-time critic of race pseudoscience, is a big fan of the excellent HOPE Not Hate report Race Science Inc.

He wrote an article for the Guardian about it: Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever.

So it was absolutely flabbergasting to read in the Race Science Inc. article that the racists asked Rutherford to write for them:

Frost added that he was using these high-profile guests as a “shield” to avoid scrutiny, giving the semblance of a respectable publication. In March 2023, he approached Adam Rutherford, the UCL geneticist, and offered him $1,000 for a regular column on Aporia. Rutherford, who has published extensively against scientific racism, criticising the likes of Kirkegaard and Dutton, rejected the offer.

Few Americans know who Adam Rutherford is, but he is huge in England. 

It's hysterical that Aporia thought they could get Rutherford to destroy his entire career for them, and to add insult, for a measly $1000.

Emil Kirkegaard's Race Pseudoscience and Nazi Network

The Guardian ran an article recently about people and organizations Pinkerite has blogged about. Thanks to Oliver for the heads-up. The article is Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss.

The tech boss is a guy I'd heard of but forgotten, Andrew Conru:

HDF received more than $1m from Andrew Conru, a Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites, the recordings reveal. After being approached by the Guardian, Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of “non-partisan academic research”.

I mentioned Conru over a year ago because he is also a donor of Richard Hanania.

The HDF is the Human Diversity Foundation  apparently now partially funded on the remains of the infamous Pioneer Fund. The name recalls Steve Sailer's old Human Biodiversity Institute.

HDF is owned by that international man of douchebaggery, Emil Kirkegaard.

HDF’s owner, Emil Kirkegaard, has made similar comments about “remigration”, saying of families settled for two or three generations: “I generally support policies that pay them to leave.”

Kirkegaard, who also appears to use the name William Engman, is an author of more than 40 papers published by Mankind Quarterly, a British race science journal established in the 1960s.

Emil Kirkegaard says HDF ‘is not involved in politics’. 

Originally from Denmark and now living in Germany, he heads what Frost described as an “underground research wing” for HDF consisting of about 10 hobby researchers and academics.

Ongoing HDF projects, discussed in a video call between the group last year that was led by Kirkegaard, included studies into “international dysgenics”, whether dating apps alter human breeding, whether people with progressive opinions are mentally ill or whether Wikipedia editors are too leftwing.

The Guardian article is based on an article by Hope Not Hate, Race Science Inc. published a few days ago. 

And it is a hum-dinger.

And the article starts with the Scandza Foundation which I was talking about last month. 

The article:

The Scandza Forum is one of the most important events in the far-right calendar. Hosted by Fróði Midjord, a Scandinavian neo-Nazi, it is a conference of extremist intellectuals who gather for lectures on white nationalism, race science, and World War II revisionism. In May 2023, the Scandza Forum was held for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic at the Von Stackelberg Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, attracting more than 100 far-right activists from across the western world.

Among the guests was an undercover reporter for HOPE not hate.

At the conference, our infiltrator met a man who introduced himself as Matthew Archer, although we now know his real name is Matthew Frost.

Frost said he was the founder of Aporia, a website running stories on “HBD”, or human biodiversity. This is the belief that there are meaningful and measurable differences between different “races”, especially in terms of intelligence. It is, in essence, the misuse of science to promote racist ideology.

According to the article, Aporia is part of the HDF’s organisation, as is a scientific racism research team. 

Aporia is the racist Substack account. I'm waiting on Jonathan Katz to talk about Aporia one of these days since he wrote about other Nazis happily making bank at the racism-friendly Substack.

Aporia has a direct connection to German Nazis:

The third senior figure of HDF is Erik Ahrens, a social media advisor in Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the far-right German party. He is an advocate of white nationalism, and appeared at the AfD’s Potsdam conference in November 2023, at which party leaders discussed deporting German citizens of foreign descent.

The Hope article includes images from the slide presentation given for the HDF's ghouls. You can see the org chart here. That's Kirkegaard in the bottom square to the right of the org chart.

Just to give the HDF some historical context, I created my own org chart, based on info from the Hope Not Hate article and elsewhere.

You can see the PDF version here.

It's funny, in the article Kirkegaard is shown as being so happy about meeting Peter Thiel. Kirkegaard is on the record as saying that homosexuality is a mental illness. He surely must know that Peter Thiel is proud to be gay.

I guess money changes everything.

Back in May we saw that Kirkegaard had Mankind Publishing House LLC registered in Wyoming and now it seems he has the Human Diversity Foundation LLC registered in Wyoming too.

And as usual it comes back to the Nazi Bar known as the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR). Many of those connected to Aporia are associated with or attended meetings of ISIR including Kirkegaard, Charles Murray, Helmut Nyborg, Jonathan Anomaly, Curtis Dunkel, David Piffer, Bryan Pesta, James Thompson, Russell T. Warne, Razib Khan, Gregory Clark, Garette Jones, Jonatan Pallesen, Toby Young and of course ISIR bigwig Richard Haier.

It now makes perfect sense that so many right-wing organizations and race pseudoscience ghouls like Steven Pinker all chipped in to defame the guy that Emil Kirkegaard owes money to last year. Aporia attacked Rational Wiki for the same reason more recently. 

Kirkegaard is an essential player in the right-wing billionaire-funded racist/neo-Nazi/fascist network.

Jerry Seinfeld changes his mind

 So a few months ago I wrote about Seinfeld hanging out with right-wing creep Bari Weiss, whining about the Left ruining comedy. 

Apparently Seinfeld has done a 180 on the issue. Which is a good thing - but like the hosts of The Majority Report I can't guess what happened. Maybe he finally realized what creeps Bari Weiss and her crew are?

Good piece on the racism of traffic stops

A link in case you get that stupid "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot" message. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ygQ2wEwJw

The Trump campaign fully embraces race pseudoscience

Per the Washington Post:

In an interview with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday morning, Trump’s suggestion that non-White immigrants are genetically inferior was made explicit.

The comment came as Trump was disparaging his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“How about allowing people to come through an open border,” he said, “13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person and they’re now happily living in the United States?”

This is a false claim — “outrageously false,” in the wording of The Washington Post Fact Checker — based on a misrepresentation of numbers released by the government. That data indicated that there were about 13,000 immigrants who had committed murder but were not in custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many, though, are in custody elsewhere, including at the state level. Nor were they all immigrants who arrived during the Biden administration; many were here under Trump, too.

Unchallenged by Hewitt, Trump continued on the subject.

“You know, now, a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes,” he said. “And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” Reinforcing that he was talking about the “bad genes” of immigrants, Trump offered up more false claims based on the ICE data.

Hewitt, rather than contesting Trump’s genetic argument, shifted the conversation with no apparent irony to the federal criminal charges Trump himself faces. These, of course, are not a function of criminal genes, in Trump’s estimation, but instead of the political whims of Biden. (In reality, they are a function of Trump’s actions.)

"Criminal genes" is a core belief of Biosocial Criminology, a loose collection of racist, hereditarian beliefs that relies heavily on the racist garbage of Jean-Phillipe Rushton. How did I miss this article in Undark on the subject of Biosocial Criminology?

Later that year, the lead author of the paper, Brian Boutwell, took to the right-wing magazine Quillette to complain that biosocial criminologists were being shunned by their colleagues. Around that time, Boutwell and one of his co-authors on the paper, Florida State University criminologist Kevin Beaver, appeared separately on the show of alt-right podcaster Stefan Molyneux to talk about the links between crime, biology, and race. (Wright, one of the Cincinnati professors, appeared on the show too.)

Shunned or not, the authors of the paper maintained active careers. Boutwell is now an associate professor at the University of Mississippi. One of his co-authors, J.C. Barnes, was until recently the chair of the Biopsychosocial Criminology division of the American Society of Criminology. Another co-author, Beaver, now directs the Biosocial Criminology Research & Policy Institute at Florida State University, and he maintains an affiliation with King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. (Beaver did not respond to requests for an interview.)

Steven Pinker is a booster of biosocial criminology, which the Undark article does not mention, but which I've been tracking.

It should come as no surprise that Trump embraces race pseudoscience, considering he is funded by racists like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen. 

In a surprise twist, Andreessen's partner Horowitz has switched to supporting Harris.

But any reporter doing the least amount of research on Thiel would understand exactly how racist he has always been. This is from "Contrarian" the book about Thiel by Max Chafkin:

Clarium employees read, played chess, and debated (sample topic: If you were going to design a country from scratch, what would it look like?) Everyone spent a lot of time talking politics, though out was important that those politics always be of the right-wing variety. An employee told me that it was common to hear talk about climate change denial and to see web browsers open to VDARE, the far-right website with a long record of publishing white nationalist writing. There were liberals at Clarium, but they understood that it was best to keep those views quiet. 

How ironic that Steven Pinker (born in Canada), who apparently despises Trump (see him doing his awkward dance when Trump lost in 2020) has contributed to Trump's dangerous racist beliefs, by promoting racists and race pseudoscience (albeit usually stealthily) for the past couple of decades.