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.
