Meet Benjamin Ryan, the NYTimes' pipeline to race pseudoscience and neo-Nazis

Ryan's social media is pure right-wing attacks and propaganda.

I had been aware of Ryan and his connection to Jesse Singal for some time, and I always knew one day Ryan's cozy alliance with the race pseudoscience gang would become an issue.

And now it has. For the New York Times.

It's bizarre to see Ryan whining on Singal's Substack that "they're trying to turn me into the next version of you" when Ryan appears to be doing all he can to become another version of Jesse Singal. 

Like Singal, Ryan has been noted for his anti-trans campaign:

• Ben Ryan Rages at Trans Women on Twitter
• New York Times is Responding to the Full Scale Assault on Trans People by Giving Jesse Signal's #1 Fan Ben Ryan a Space to Discourse about Trans Youth
• Ben Ryan vs transgender people 

But an aspect of Jesse Singal's career that is often overlooked is his very cozy relationship with racists, especially Razib Khan, whose entire career has been devoted to promoting race pseudoscience, since at least when Ron Unz funded his college education.

And we see that Benjamin Ryan is Singal's clone in that respect too. He subscribes to racist Jordan Lasker (aka Crémieux) on X/Twitter.

The New York Times published an article, co-written by Benjamin Ryan, sharing a Columbia University admissions application by Zohran Mamdani, stolen by hackers. 

I see on his LinkedIn that Ryan went to Columbia - I wonder if he still has a log-in to its system.

The source for Ryan's article is Jordan Lasker, but the NYTimes did not give his real name, instead writing:

The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X. He provided the data under condition of anonymity, although his identity has been made public elsewhere. He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.

The white-washing is so blatant: "writes often about IQ and race" is a funny way to describe a dedicated racist who has taken money from neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard to publish in Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi Substack Aporia, at least twice.

Lasker has published many papers with Kirkegaard as well as other hard-core racists including Bryan Pesta, John G. R. Fuerst, and Jan te Nijenhuis.

Lasker's connection to Crémieux was public knowledge thanks to an article in the Guardian back in March.

Unfortunately for Lasker and Ryan, by one metric at least, their attempt to hurt Mamdani failed.

But one thing that the team of Benjamin Ryan and Jordan Lasker has accomplished is to damage the New York Times' reputation, at least among those of us opposed to racism.

Thanks to the outcry, the NYTimes had to respond:

It looks like the same pipeline used to destroy trans rights is being turned on Mamdani.

But at least we know that Lasker's sister can't stand him.