I am hated by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard*, a racist and according to British comedian Stewart Lee, a "weird far-right paedophilia apologist."
Kirkegaard is a major player in an international race pseudoscience network as shown in the report "Race Science Inc." by the organization HOPE not Hate.
According to the report, Kirkegaard's Human Diversity Foundation has received the remaining money of the infamously racist Pioneer Fund. Which makes Human Diversity Foundation essentially the new Pioneer Fund.
I'm also hated by race pseudo-science promoters/anti-trans grifters Razib Khan and Jesse Singal.
So I must be doing something right.
Fun fact: Khan has appeared on Kirkegaard's Aporia podcast.
I am an admirer of anthropologist Marvin Harris, whose criticisms of sociobiology/evolutionary psychology inform my views of race and gender essentialism.
You can see videos of Marvin Harris here.
Recommended reading: anthropologist R. Brian Ferguson's "Materialist, cultural and biological theories on why Yanomami make war" to understand cultural materialism, sociobiology and the differences between the two. It's only 17 pages and it's free here.
But why am I being so mean to Steven Pinker, world-famous "celebrity intellectual?"
Because he's the media-friendly face of race pseudoscience and named by Bari Weiss as the most respectable person associated with the Intellectual Dark Web.
In his article about Pinker entitled "The World's Most Annoying Man," Nathan J. Robinson writes:
Fun fact: Khan has appeared on Kirkegaard's Aporia podcast.
I am an admirer of anthropologist Marvin Harris, whose criticisms of sociobiology/evolutionary psychology inform my views of race and gender essentialism.
You can see videos of Marvin Harris here.
Recommended reading: anthropologist R. Brian Ferguson's "Materialist, cultural and biological theories on why Yanomami make war" to understand cultural materialism, sociobiology and the differences between the two. It's only 17 pages and it's free here.
But why am I being so mean to Steven Pinker, world-famous "celebrity intellectual?"
Because he's the media-friendly face of race pseudoscience and named by Bari Weiss as the most respectable person associated with the Intellectual Dark Web.
In his article about Pinker entitled "The World's Most Annoying Man," Nathan J. Robinson writes:
Pinker is supposedly “such a nice guy,” a person who is restrained and moderate and reasonable, who laments that politics has gotten so vicious and tribal. And yet in his books, you find him comparing environmentalists to Nazis and campus anti-bigotry initiatives to Stalin’s purges. Those he disagrees with are “quasi-religious,” “authoritarian,” they push “emotionally charged but morally irrelevant red herrings.” Al Gore and the Unabomber belong together. When anthropologist Jason Hickel critiqued Pinker’s theses in the Guardian, Pinker snapped that Hickel was a “Marxist idealogue” while leaving many of Hickel’s arguments unaddressed. Is this what the Chronicle called Pinker’s “relentless friendly persuasion, a kind of indefatigable reasonableness”?
* Fun fact: Steven Pinker is one of Emil Kirkegaard's influences. And in turn, Pinker uses the force of his "celebrity intellectual" status to promote the career of Razib Khan and the Substack-platformed neo-Nazi Aporia Magazine.
The big question is why does Pinker, who is Jewish (although an atheist), promote a neo-Nazi media outlet?
My guess is that he is such a true believer, even evangelist, for race pseudoscience that he'll promote an organization devoted to race pseudoscience even if it includes neo-Nazis.
And it is not hyperbole to use the term "neo-Nazi" to describe Aporia. As the Hope not Hate investigative report concluded about Aporia's parent organization: "HDF is working to create a cult of weapons-trained activists inspired by Scientology and the Nazi SS."
Pinker has also been an enthusiastic participant in conferences of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), an organization that has always welcomed racists and neo-Nazis, including Emil Kirkegaard. I have created a spreadsheet to track ISIR participants (with links to the conference programs) here.
