Timnit Gebru (she/her).Important reporting by Christopher Mathias. Same shit, different day. "Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name...to write articles where he identified himself as a “race realist.” He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black."
"He opposed “miscegenation” and “race-mixing.” And once, while arguing that Black people cannot govern themselves, he cited the neo-Nazi author of “The Turner Diaries,” the infamous novel that celebrates a future race war..."The 37-year-old has been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post. He delivered a lecture to the Yale Federalist Society and was interviewed by the Harvard College Economics Review. He appeared twice on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,”"
"A third billionaire, Peter Thiel, provided a blurb to promote Hanania’s book, “The Origins of Woke,” which HarperCollins plans to publish this September. In October, Hanania is scheduled to deliver a lecture at Stanford...."A little over a decade ago, he felt compelled to hide his racist views behind a pseudonym. In 2023, Hanania is a right-wing star, championed by some of the country’s wealthiest men, even as he’s sounding more and more like his former white supremacist nom de plume"
"And this October, Hanania is scheduled to teach a seminar at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. The school did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment..."Peter Thiel,...expressed excitement over the book’s takedown of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. “DEI will never d-i-e from words alone,” Thiel wrote. “Hanania shows we need the sticks and stones of government violence to exorcize the diversity demon."
"Hanania mentioned all of these men in a June Substack post while describing what he celebrated as the “Tech Right,” a new Silicon Valley-based conservative movement that, among other beliefs, embraces transhumanism and “longtermism.”"
Steve Torrente@timnitGebru Oh no he's gonna mess up their branding.
Sarah@timnitGebru and another L for Substack bc they sent out this newsletter about a month and a half ago.. oh yes, this is a great description of not-so-secret Nazi Richard Hanania
@timnitGebru I mean, Haniana’s views weren’t actually unknown. He created a fake study trying to prove that Twitter was censoring conservatives… But some of the accounts he included were actual Nazis—the American Nazi Party, David Duke, James Allsup and Richard Spencer to name a few (in an article for Quillette, bc of course). https://www.techdirt.com/2019/02/22/does-twitter-have-anti-conservative-bias-just-anti-nazi-bias/
The Witch of Crow Briar@SarahOestreich @timnitGebru Quillette! I think that completes some twisted nazi tech bro bingo.
@crowbriarhexe @timnitGebru yeah, writing for Quillette kind of gives away the game there, doesn’t it
KelsonV@SarahOestreich @timnitGebru JFC no one who cites the Turner Diaries as part of their position is "centrist."
Or "enlightened" for that matter.
@kelsonv @timnitGebru and it’s not like no one knew. The stuff he published under his own name was bad enough. But supposed respectable conservatives will yet again ask how they should have known when it was pretty clear after reading 5 minutes of his work. And Substack will just shrug it off bc they like to platform everyone, no matter how vile they are. But promoting, not just platforming, is a whole other level of evil
cobalt going beige today@SarahOestreich @timnitGebru @kcarruthers I subscribed to him a year ago just to get an idea where he’s coming from. Proud moment when I commented on a healthcare issue first and then about 20 people faved my comment and the replies came fast and furious. He conceded my points.
Chris Real@timnitGebru Once again, another highly researched set of posts that contributes to the validity of my axiom,
"All tentacles lead to Thiel".
Raven Onthill@timnitGebru visiting scholar? Does that mean UT Austin can fire him?
@timnitGebru I fully resent the these guys who dress up fascism as classical liberalism and get fancy jobs at "western values" institutes and speaking gigs at the top of the discipline. Political science abandoned political theory as a subfield over the past 15 years and look who rushed in.
MDK@timnitGebru jesus, what a psychopath
Vessel of Unknown Origin@timnitGebru Dear gods, what a gross set of ideas masquerading as an *intellectual*. Thank you for bringing this to light.
J3RN 
@timnitGebru Oh wow, they're saying the quiet parts out loud now.
geoneil@timnitGebru so Thiel's on favour of monoculture, inequity and exclusion?