Ken WhiteRichard Hanania’s view of America versus America.
But I am assured by Serious Thinkers that he’s a moderate, thoughtful, important voice, and it’s so crucial to take him seriously. So very Serious, such Thinkers, every one.
NKT@Popehat I don't get it?
aismallard (relocated!)@Dss You don’t get the contrast between someone saying black people aren’t policed hard enough and an article about a black teen jailed for three years without trial for stealing a backpack?
Adrian Lorenzana 
@Popehat Holy shit
Carlos Scheidegger@Popehat what really grinds my gears is the “who could have seen he’s a white supremacist?” “He was young” “it was a different time” nonsense. He hasn’t stopped; it’s been plainly out there all along, but I suppose racists will racism
Allen B. Skye@scheidegger @Popehat Yeah, the ‘we need to put more black people in jail’ bit wasn’t even a dog whistle. That’s just being openly racist.
edited: for precision
@raddude12 not only surveillance, he literally said incarceration. It's worth being precise here.
@scheidegger Oh, damn. Yep
Jesse@Popehat wait, I thought he was being a racist shitbird under a pen name...he was also a racist shitbird under his own name?
@yetanotherjesse He was a slightly more genteel racist shitbird, Jesse, the sort that impresses venture capitalists and rich dudes with Nazi memorabilia collections.
They just love WWII history! It just happens that a lot of it has fascist iconography. Don't make it weird.
[because this toot will be floating without its original context: absolutely do continue making it weird]
Marcus Marcius Marcellus
Father Ted visits Father Fitzpatrick
@marcas a superlative response
Jonathan Hendry@marcas @Popehat @yetanotherjesse
I guess we know what that scene would be like if glinner wrote it today.
@jonhendry @Popehat @yetanotherjesse Yes. Glinner's a bit like David Icke, isn't he? Each was good at something once, long ago, something worthwhile and wonderful. And then each went absolutely off the rails and devoted himself utterly to something completely different, something vile and pernicious.
Cantard@yetanotherjesse @Popehat someone is going to sit him down and explain about using subtext…and plausible deniability.
Like a Klansman wearing a robe with an iron-on of his own face on the hood.
Probably with an iron-on of the little round green guy with his middle fingers up, on his chest.
Pappy@Popehat He's not wrong. We do need more policing. More policing of rich, white people.
Jeff ByrnesI ain't short strokin' or half steppin.
You gotta rise above it all
Or drown in your own shit.
UseYourIndoorVoice
Righteous Hazard@Popehat A guy like that will always have a audience of people who don't know better.
But there are plenty of people who know better, who even now still choose to excuse and promote white supremacist garbage like him.
Funk_Funky@Popehat Serious Thinkers blow.
Dark Sage Torunka 
@Popehat Louis Rossman is more moderate than this and he swears at MacBook motherboards and the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance all day
Michael C. McGreevy@Popehat Pardon my profanity, but how in the FUCK can anyone look at the modern state of America and think that the solution is an even more heavy-handed police presence than we have now?
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@mcmcgreevy @Popehat You need access to a gated community to find the Real America.
Pēteris Krišjānis@Popehat such thinkers, much *cough* fascism propaganda.
LibTarg’s 5-Alarm Fire 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨The percentage of black folks who are incarcerated (38.5%) is about TRIPLE the percentage of black folks in the US population (13.6%). But sure, we need to keep an eye on them blacks and throw more of them in jail.
Richard living up to his name it seems.
(sources: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp | https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/IPE120221)
@Popehat But prosecuting Trump means we have a two tiered justice system! 🤐
David Landon 
@Popehat If this clown wants to racially profile, then remind me what race most serial killers and mass shooter are. Sounds to me like a guy who finds himself in the same demographic as society's most heinous criminals and is desperately saying "Look over there!"
James Ryland Miller@Popehat Who the heck thinks he's a moderate when he claims "We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people."...? The #whitesupremacy ? Our #criminal #justice system is already hugely #racist and disproportionately incarcerates black people. Hanania sounds just awful. #racism #racismisbad
@Popehat Damn shame. Didn’t know he committed suicide. This is your professional world, so nothing I can add you don’t know. Just a damn shame.
jensen@Popehat ah yes the 'there's a chance a crime might happen so we should live in a police state' mindset. super healthy.
North Easton 
@Popehat Love that he puts his racism right out there and people still say "wait, he has a point".
Like, no.
@Popehat i hope to live in a country one day where saying shit like this is career suicide
Unfortunately being a racist sentient teratoma is a secure career path.
Arotrios@Popehat Advocating racially based policing is the first step towards a fascist police state. Any scholar of history understands that fascism is failed philosophy of government that collapses in upon itself when it no longer has targets to oppress, and that racial disparities in crime have been proven to be a social construct, not a scientific one based on genetics.
As such, he's proving that he doesn't have a grasp on undergraduate level basics that should have been a requirement for him advancing at Columbia. His degree should be revoked.
If you're pissed off that Harper Collins is publishing his book, and that Stanford is giving him a platform to speak, I've posted the contact info here for those who wish to make their opinions know. The article on that thread goes into much more detail about the vile spew he put forth under the Hoste pseudonym.
This Man Has The Ear Of Billionaires — And A White Supremacist Past He Kept A Secret - politics - kbin.social
Richard Hanania, a prominent conservative writer, used the pseudonym Richard Hoste in the early 2010s to write racist articles supporting white supremacy and eugenics. He argued that Black people are inherently less intelligent and more prone to crime than white people. Though he has moderated his rhetoric, Hanania still...
@Popehat well now you know, whoever those people were, they are not “serious thinkers”.
Craig Mcgee@Popehat not sure if you are aware, he wrote under a pen name to hide his real identity, and this article shows he has some awful views.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817
Mushifoot@Popehat hey little thing let me light your candle cause mama i'm sure hard to Hanania -The Black Crowes probably
El Fotografo@Popehat maybe they only look serious because they're constipated (see Carlson, T).
klausfiend has moved@Popehat he seems nice.
@Popehat Red flags go up when I hit the phrase "solve crime."
Even chatGPT will recognize that as the first step in an argument for murdering people.
John Infante@Popehat “In order to finally defeat the Left and instill law and order, we must have a Cultural Revolution.”
@Popehat Really tells you where the Overton window is when they say that “Crime is a black phenomenon” is a “moderate” position.
tom4okstate@Popehat you wonder what sort of North Korea level Police State the deranged shit head is envisioning here.