Bari Weiss is a fascist - and now so is CBS news

 

AV Club:

Just when you thought the Paramount corporation couldn’t heap any more indignities on the head of poor, beleaguered CBS News—which got to spend months being abused by the Trump administration for the horrible crime of editing down an interview, before having to watch its parent company sheepishly shell out millions rather than fight it out on its behalf—multiple sources are now reporting that the venerable TV news brand might end up being handed off to former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss. This is per TheWrap, seemingly confirming a Puck report from earlier today suggesting that Paramount (now owned by Skydance, and under the watchful eye of its founder, David Ellison) is in talks to acquire Weiss’ media company The Free Press, potentially with an aim toward installing her at the top of CBS News.

Predictably, gutter racists like Razib Khan were celebrating.

Nathan Brand is a hard-core Republican which makes him a friend of fascism and racism, automatically.

Brand is apparently associated with Hillsdale, the far-right college that employs Ben Winegard, the twin brother (and fellow racist) of neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard's flunky Bo Winegard.

As Tom Scocca noted above, Weiss is supremely untalented.

But she does have one amazing talent - to be a shameless courtier to fascist plutocrats, as I have discussed on this blog for years.

Exquisite take-down of Richard Dawkins

I just discovered a really good atheist YouTuber, Drew McCoy, known as Genetically Modified Skeptic.

It seems that one of Dawkins' PR guys tried to bring him into the Dawkins fold. 

McCoy refused and then did an exquisite take-down of Dawkins instead. This is how you do it. 

Hemant Mehta the Friendly Atheist makes an appearance.

Mentioned as allies of Dawkins: Jerry Coyne, Colin Wright, Edward Dutton, Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson.

Related Genetically Modified Skeptic videos:

• Why the Anti-Woke Right Has So Many Atheists

• Why the Right Hates Atheists but Loves Elon Musk

• The "Skeptics" Are Crashing Out Hard - about the infamous "War on Science" right-wing grievances book

Who is a gutter racist?

There are basically two kinds of racists - the genteel and the gutter.

To illustrate the difference, let's talk about the degeneration of the career of E. O. Wilson.

Wilson began as a genteel racist. In his book Sociobiology, published in 1975, Wilson did not actually discuss racial differences. He merely suggested the possibility of human mental improvement, based on the premise that hunter-gatherer societies are shaped by evolution in the same exact way that non-human societies are, although he is careful to admit that we don't know "how much mental evolution has actually occurred:" 

There is no reason to believe that during this final sprint there has been a cessation in the evolution of either mental capacity or the predilection toward special social behaviors. The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back only to the time of the Roman Empire. Two thousand generations, roughly the period since typical Homo sapiens invaded Europe, is enough time to create new species and to mold them in major ways. Although we do not know how much mental evolution has actually occurred, it would be false to assume that modern civilizations have been built entirely on capital accumulated during the long haul of the Pleistocene.

But by his next book, On Human Nature published in 1978, Wilson was making a case for the genetic passivity of Chinese and Navaho infants:

Navaho infants tested by Freedman and his coworkers were even more quiescent than the Chinese infants. When lifted erect and pulled forward they were less inclined to swing their legs in a walking motion; when put in a sitting position, their backs curved; and when placed on their stomachs, they made fewer attempts to crawl. It has been conventional to ascribe the passivity of Navaho children to the practice of cradleboarding, a device that holds the infant tightly in place on the mother's back. But Freedman suggests that the reverse may actually be true: the relative quiescence of Navaho babies, a trait that is apparent from birth onward, allows them to be carried in a confining manner. Cradleboarding represents a workable compromise between cultural invention and infant constitution.

And by a dozen years after the publication of Sociobiology, Wilson was promoting the career of gutter racist Jean-Phillippe Rushton, who would go on to become the president of the Nazi-legacy organization, the Pioneer Fund. 

As Borrello and Sepkoski wrote in the New York Review of Books shortly after Wilson died:

Rushton was arguing that “r/K selection theory” applies to different human races. This model was developed in the 1960s by Wilson and the population biologist Robert MacArthur to characterize distinct evolutionary reproductive strategies among different species of animals. It distinguishes species that produce large numbers of offspring (or those that are "r-selected") with little subsequent parental investment (for example, many insects) from those that produce few offspring (or are "K-selected") with greater parental investment (elephants, humans). Rushton’s intent was rather to demonstrate that "behavioral genetics seems to suggest that r/K relationships are heritable" among humans, and that, furthermore, different human "races" have different strategies: specifically, that Black people are r-selected, while whites are K-selected. Moreover, he carefully explained to Wilson that this model accounted for racial disparities in IQ, postulating that Black people are not selected for high intelligence because their selection strategy favors, essentially, quantity over quality.

As an author of the r/K model, one would have expected Wilson to have been outraged at Rushton’s proposal, which implied, as many nineteenth-century scientists did, that human “races” constituted different species—a view no reputable biologist, including Wilson, would have publicly defended. But Wilson immediately dashed off a letter to Rushton applauding his application of the r/K model as “one of the most original and interesting [ideas] I’ve ever encountered in psychology,” adding that the work was “courageous.” “In this country the whole issue would be clouded by personal charges of racism to the point that rational discussion would be almost impossible,” he wrote, urging Rushton to “press ahead!”

In his alliance with Rushton, E. O. Wilson became an indisputable gutter racist. 

By that measure, Steven Pinker has been a gutter racist since at least 2004, when he selected the very poor work of gutter racist Steve Sailer to include in "The Best American Science and Nature Writing" annual anthology which Pinker edited that year.

And Pinker has remained a gutter racist, and these days he even makes common cause with the neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard, appearing on the Kirkegaard-owned Aporia magazine podcast in June of this year. This was significant enough that establishment media, which has done its best to ignore Pinker's implicit racist views suddenly paid attention.

Basically, if you are an ally of Emil Kirkegaard, you are a gutter racist.

And so the following people are gutter racists:

• Jonathan Anomaly
• Benjamin Boyce
• Noah Carl
• Gregory Clark
• Nathan Cofnas
• Edward Dutton
• Diana Fleischmann
• Matthew Frost
• John R. G. Fuerst
• David Geary
• Richard Haier
• Richard Hanania
• Rob Henderson
• Stephen Hsu
• The International Society for Intelligence Research
• Anatoly Karlin
• Razib Khan
• Jordan Lasker
• Lipton Matthews
• Gerhard Meisenberg
• Charles Murray
• Helmuth Nyborg
• Jonatan Pallesen
• Bryan Pesta
• Davide Piffer
• Steven Pinker
• Andrew Sullivan
• Jan te Nijenhuis
• James Thompson
• Russell T. Warne
• Bo Winegard
• Michael A. Woodley of Menie
  

And of course Claire Lehmann - soon I will talk about her "how I became a gutter racist' speech for the international league of gutter racists, the ISIR. 

And her pants-pissing terror of Zohran Mamdani - the future mayor of New York City, baby!

A former neo-Nazi defects from Emil Kirkegaard's neo-Nazi network

Could Erik Ahrens be the Hanfstaengl of the neo-Nazi movement?

Ahrens has published YouTube content critical of both Emil Kirkegaard and the International Society for Intelligence Research.

Ahrens was the main connection between Kirkegaard's Human Diversity Foundation and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) "often seen as chauvinistic, right-wing-populist, nationalistic, populist, right-wing, extremist, radical-right, or simply as Germany’s new Nazi party." 

According to the HOPE not Hate profile of the Human Diversity Foundation (now officially called "Polygenic Scores LLC) :

HDF has also enlisted Erik Ahrens, an Alternative für Deutschland communications worker, to expand its stable of influencers. With Frost, he has created an audiobook app called Liegent, which summarises texts by Charles Murray, Alain de Benoist, and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The aim is to give far-right content creators an advertising partner, providing them with an additional source of revenue. In return, HDF expects an element of control of their editorial output. Ahrens, who has launched a similar scheme in Germany, calls the scheme “economics as coercion”. Edward Dutton and Thomas Rowsell (AKA Survive The Jive) have promoted Liegent adverts.

Last year the Irish Times published an article about Ahrens titled: The guru showing Alternative for Germany how to use social media to win votes and influence young people.

Ahrens has apparently had a change of heart since then, and is now opposed to race pseudoscience, homophobia and neo-Nazism.

So Ahrens published a video to his YouTube channel called Black people are NOT less intelligent. The "World IQ Map" is a fraud (PROOF) in which he argues against a race pseudoscience artifact promoted by Kirkegaard and his network. 

The World IQ Map is the usual Richard Lynn bullshit, the obvious slop of motivated reasoning and plain old racism, but it's good to have a former Kirkegaard associate say so.

The video is recorded in German, but provides an English-language auto-dub, which is not perfect, sometimes translating Kirkegaard's name as "Emil Kirkard" or "Meal Kirkegaard." Also the English translation auto-dub censors naughty words, so that the auto-dub voice says in English "when I was still pretty deep into all this Nazi." But even I know enough German to recognize that in the German captions he says "Nazischeiße' - or "when I was still pretty deep into all this Nazi shit."

Ahrens says he lived with Kirkegaard in Spain for a few months. He shows photos and a video clip of himself with Kirkegaard. He says "we often drank alcohol together" and that once when Kirkegaard was drunk he said he planned to do a new IQ study in which he would prove his racist beliefs. So I guess Kirkegaard does not have confidence that the Lynn World IQ Map sufficiently makes the racist case. 

Ahrens points out that Kirkegaard claims to already know the results of his study even before performing the study. But of course he does. That's how sociobiology/evolutionary psychology/behavioral genetics/eugenics/biosocial criminology/hereditarianism work - in my series on Adam Rutherford and the paper he co-authored that cites racists/hereditarians, I discussed Sam Harris giving the game away.

Ahrens says that Kirkegaard is "a leading figure or the leading figure in this international race and IQ research." Ahrens notes that Kirkegaard is not a data scientist or geneticist but rather has a bachelor's degree in linguistics. Also Kirkegaard has declared outright multiple times to Ahrens that he, Kirkegaard is a racist and hates Black people and "all his studies reflect that." 

I mean, that's a pretty obvious fact about Emil Kirkegaard, but it's good to have this personal testimonial to confirm it.

Next Ahrens discusses Kirkegaard's Human Diversity Foundation and the London Conference on Intelligence which no longer takes place in London - probably due to all the negative publicity it generated for ghouls like Toby Young - but now takes place in eastern Europe. 

Ahrens claims the conference took place at the Brody House in Budapest, August 16 - 18, 2024. Then Ahrens displays what he says is the time-table for the conference. Ahrens remarks: "professors and more or less well-known intellectuals from all over the world who of course travel there secretly so they don't get cancelled, and then they spread their basically racist theories together and present their pseudoscience to each other."

Next Ahrens discusses the 2022 annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) in Vienna, saying:

...I was also in Vienna for another conference, again with Emil in tow. To be precise, the International Society of Intelligence Research conference in Vienna and Emil Kirkegaard was originally invited there but then disinvited. He came anyway and a secret meeting took place after the conference, where many of those present, including those you can see in this video including Professor Heiner Rindermann from TU Chemnitz, listened to a racist lecture from Emil Kirkegaard.

The Ahrens video shows silent video clips of race pseudoscience promoters, some I unfortunately know on sight by now, including Jonathan Anomaly (real name Jonathan Beres) and Gregory Clark. 

Ahrens claims that Jonathan Anomaly
attended Emil Kirkegaard's "secret lecture"
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Ahrens claims that Gregory Clark 
attended Emil Kirkegaard's "secret lecture"
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Then Ahrens shows what looks like a clip from an official ISIR video listing Anomaly, Clark, Helmuth Nyborg, Jordan Lasker (aka "Cremiux), Anna-Lena Schubert, Camille Williams, Tobias Wolfram, Paulina Plinke and Andreas Demitriou.

ISIR board member Emily Willoughby denied that she had anything to do with a private meeting but does not deny it took place, in the comments section of a blog post defending her by race pseudoscience ghoul Jerry Coyne.

It was understandable to be suspicious of Willoughby since she has a history of friendly communications with race pseudoscience freaks like "HBD Chick" and, yes, Emil Kirkegaard. And her long history of promoting the trashiest of race pseudoscience under the nom de Nazi "Ferahgo the Assassin" can be seen in Wikipedia archives. Twitter user Magnus Pharo testified to Willoughby's connection to Kirkegaard in 2022.

Kirkegaard has not responded yet, as far as I can tell, to the Ahrens video in spite of someone asking him to in the comments section of a blog post in which Kirkegaard practices the antique pseudoscience of physiognomy.