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I found listening to #StevenPinker's audiobook helped me get some perspective: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk

Do you remember that shadowy network of white supremacist "race science" and eugenics revivalists running a rebranded Pioneer Fund that we talked about being behind the ideologues fueling Trump's "War on Woke" back in late April? Well noted "enlightened centrist" dipshit intellectual Steven Pinker just turned up on a podcast for the (now renamed to) Human Diversity Foundation's magazine Aporia, and to the surprise of no one who has been paying attention to Pinker's career for any length of time, cited Douglas Murray and helped normalize garbage pro-"scientific racism" propaganda.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism

"During the podcast, Pinker expressed agreement with claims made by Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve, a prominent figure in the “human biodiversity” movement that seeks to promote race-based theories of intelligence, and like Pinker a one-time participant in a human biodiversity email list convened by Steve Sailer.

When Carl cited “evidence collected by sociologists like Charles Murray suggesting that part of the family breakdown in some communities in America seems to be attributable to the state taking over the traditional function of the father”, Pinker responded: “I think that is a problem.” He added: “It is a huge class-differentiated phenomenon, as Murray and others write it out.”

Reporting last October in the Guardian revealed that Aporia operates within a broader network of groups and individuals seeking to mainstream racial pseudoscience.

The initiative had been secretly funded by US tech entrepreneur Andrew Conru until he was contacted for comment on the reporting, and Aporia’s editors are connected to far-right extremists, including Erik Ahrens, whom German authorities have designated a “rightwing extremist” posing an “extremely high” danger.

The investigation also found that Aporia was owned by the Human Diversity Foundation, a Wyoming LLC founded in 2022 by Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish self-described eugenicist and race scientist who has spent years attempting to access genetic datasets, and maintaining publishing platforms including OpenPsych and Mankind Quarterly that serve a network of race-science researchers."

As one of Pinker's many longtime critics in left wing discourse, part of the reason I'm sharing this story is a giant middle finger to all the "Very Serious People TM" in our society who kept insisting it was unreasonable to say that vapid fraud was promoting a foundationally colonialist, white supremacist view of society, human development, and the world at large; we told you folks he was basically Niall Ferguson for "centrists" and this is absolutely where Pinker's career was always headed. Yet another celebrity intellectual who barfs up platitudes about the status quo that affluent white Americans love, turns out to be not just "asking questions" but the full blown cracker supremacist scholars on the left warned you he was. Maybe the gatekeepers of our larger discourse should stop showering praise on folks who kiss the ruling class's asses if they also think Charles Murray had some valid ideas worth exploring? Who can say.

The other reason I'm sharing this story however, is that The Guardian, one of the few outlets who actually covered the international network of race science activists behind the Human Diversity Foundation and the US techbro nazi who was funding the project at the time, is kind of minimizing how odious and career-ending what Pinker just did should be. Formerly named the Pioneer fund, the organization behind this podcast was originally founded to spread Nazi ideology in America for the actual Third Reich, and the folks running it now are literally hardcore neo-nazis and white supremacists who actively promote bunk "race science," eugenicist ideology, and argue for the mass expulsion of nonwhite people from the Imperial Core. This isn't like the dumber Cuomo brother having Steve Bannon on his show to disseminate Trump's lies, this is a lot more like letting Andrew Anglin interview you for a Daily Stormer podcast. In a Pig Empire that wasn't already drunk on fascist ideology, this should absolutely be career-ending for Steven Pinker; whether it will be in the really real world we live in where lots of nazis are still welcome and celebrated in our public discourse, is a lot harder to predict.

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