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ben chambers 🏴

'Public apologies or confessions are usually not apologies at all. They are political statements: they employ powers of rhetoric to rally one’s crowd, to gain public support. And in Hanania’s case it’s apparently having the desired effect. His goal is not to express regret or contrition, but to burnish his reputation and advance his career, which was at risk of being damaged by this affair. Through the employment of a few mawkish clichés, he’s able to wring victory out of defeat: he turns it into a story of personal redemption and growth. The fact that this sorry and meager attempt garners such applause does not recommend either the moral or literary condition of our society.'

'the “statistical” and “scientific” turn of his racism does not make better: it makes it far worse. This is what makes it go from mere prejudice, which can be unlearned through experience, to the basis of an entire ideology. This is truly pernicious. By taking on the air of scientific authority, racism goes from being hot blooded to cold blooded, a matter of premeditation. It thereby becomes an engineered device for the systematic denigration of the dignity and worth of other human beings. Through this trick, it sneaks from the back alley into the parlor and becomes the subject of polite and “educated” dinner conversation. It makes it an appealing ideology not just for the mob but for the bourgeoisie. And, most disturbingly, it is how it becomes becomes policy.'

johnganz.substack.com/p/creepi

Unpopular FrontCreeping Ever Upward By John Ganz

david stafford comments

'Guys like Hanania, Fuentes, Kirk, Shapiro are opportunists who are finding their niche in the rightwing hierarchy as intermediaries between the lost boys and the political establishment. Spokesmodels for fascism with a veneer of sophistication, dimestore Iagos whispering innuendoes to the thugs.'

johnganz.substack.com/p/creepi

johnganz.substack.comCreeping Ever Upward Racism, Respectability, Careerism

my comment

'it's gaslighting all the way down--they want us to think that we're crazy

hanania and his coterie's dipshit dilettante obsession with iq, crime rates, birth rates, folk genetics etc is copypasta'ed by white supremacist mass shooters and their voyeurist murder porn fans who often credit these academic racist memes for their red pill awakening (musk has since followed a prolific anon account of this renegade intellectual poseur, chan nazi type)

as you say of antisemitism, there is a stalking murderousness to this pseudoscientific, cod empiric bioracism, genocidal ideation of the icy rationalist kind lurking behind the counterfeit statistics'

johnganz.substack.com/p/creepi

johnganz.substack.comCreeping Ever Upward Racism, Respectability, Careerism