#richard hoste

[morlock-holmes]

Richard Hanania is still bugging me.

He is a right-wing intellectual who recently wrote a book called "The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics".

The Amazon blurb says,

"For those angry about wokeness and what it has done to American institutions, this book offers concrete suggestions regarding policies that can move us back to being a country that emphasizes merit, individual liberty, and color-blind governance."

Anyway, in August of 2023, the Huffington Post broke the story that in the teens, he wrote online under the pen name "Richard Host"

Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name “Richard Hoste” in the early 2010s 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.

Hanania has admitted that the Huffpost story is correct.

Even five years ago, the media could set the narrative, tell people what was important, and how they should react to any particular story. We appear to be moving past the worst of the cancellation trend. Most outside of a certain echo chamber realize this kind of reporting is contemptible. The goal is not to engage with ideas, but to simply silence a person and remove them from polite company. To not have to discuss their ideas on account of other ideas they put forward at a different time of their life and which they may no longer even believe in.

Man, good thing cancel culture has been rejected, so that saying,

“We’ve known for a while through neuroscience and cross-adoption studies... that individuals differ in their inherent capabilities. The races do, too, with whites and Asians on the top and blacks at the bottom,” Hoste wrote in the 2010 essay, titled “Why An Alternative Right Is Necessary.” “If the races are equal,” Hoste wrote, “why do whites always end up near the top and blacks at the bottom, everywhere and always?”

Is absolutely no obstacle to becoming a respected scholar of civil rights.

Wait a second... I'm not sure we've landed at the correct equilibrium.

Hanania is not a guy who makes TikTok videos about fancy cakes but said some unrelated objectionable things 15 years ago.

He is an author and the founder of a right-wing think tank who hopes to, and probably does, have significant influence on the direction of conservative ideas about civil rights law. His views on civil rights are directly related to his job.

Especially if, like, he was just actively lying to people about how he came to his conclusions as recently as may of this year

Here's an excerpt from a speech Hanania gave to the Yale Federalist Society on April 3 of 2023:

I’m glad to be here talking about woke institutions and civil rights law. I have to say, I was ahead of the curve on this issue. It’s something I’ve been thinking about since I was in law school. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2013, and my 1L summer I worked for an organization called the Center for Individual Rights, which argued the Gratz and Grutter cases. And I learned a lot while working there about how government forces institutions to be conscious of race and sex. So, for the last decade, from 2011 on, as I was doing other things in life, I would talk to people about all these things government did to discriminate against whites and men, remove standards, get rid of standardized tests, etc. And one reason I was so passionate about this is that a lot of the fixes did not require legislation. Executive orders and judicial decisions are enough. But the Trump administration came and went, the Supreme Court got more conservative, and still nobody was listening to me. So finally I started writing on this topic myself, and now that I’m writing for the public instead of just trying to convince people one-on-one, I’m getting a better return on my efforts. Another reason what I’ve been arguing has caught on is that we saw the transformation in how institutions talk about race- and sex-related issues over the last decade. A lot of people are looking for answers. Who are these diversity bureaucrats saying all these crazy things? How did we end up with so many of them and where did they come from? And all this stuff that was more latent, of interest to legal nerds only in 2011, became much more part of the culture.

In 2010 Hanania wrote:

“The biggest enemies of the Black Man are not Klansmen or multinational corporations, but the liberals who have prevented an honest appraisal of his abilities and filled his head with myths about equality and national autarky,”

I'm not just trying to gratuitously point out how awful the things Hanania said were: I am pointing out that he just lied, blatantly, about the very field he is supposed to be an expert in.

And that's not something that happened years ago when he was just a law student, that's something he did this year.

Hanania knows that this stuff was not "latent, of interest only to legal nerds" back in 2011, because by then he had already spent years embedded in a subculture that was deeply concerned about this kind of thing. Nor, for that matter, was he simply, "trying to convince people one-on-one". He was writing under a pseudonym for numerous far-right websites.

And honestly, at this point the question is just "How much of this speech is a lie" but if less of it is a lie, than it looks way worse for Hanania.

When he joined the Center for Individual Rights he wasn't 15 years out from writing all that racist stuff, he was 3 years out. How much of it did he still believe? When he was an active racist back in law school, was he still planning on joining the Center for Individual Rights?

If the answer is yes, and the actions of a blatant racist and the "classical liberal" he has now become are essentially identical, then, uh, I'm sorry, but that seems like the kind of thing that might be a pretty important part of the story of wokeness.

If the answer is "No" then, well, we're still left with the fact that he just blatantly lied about how and why he reached his current conclusions. This story of someone who had a vague, wonkish interest in something obscure but just had to speak up when he realized it was getting out of control in the teens is an utter lie.

This is a man who has told very self-serving lies about how and why he has reached the conclusions that he has, lies that are designed to leave out crucial parts of any honest appraisal of wokeness, and who kept telling those lies until he was unable to get away with it, up to this year.

I think his willingness to lie about his own supposed field of expertise in order to sell books is pretty damning in itself, and that didn't happen 15 years ago, that happened this year.

[nightmare-foundation]

Tbh I wonder if there's any fics where comic Dick ends up in the WFA universe. I think that'd be a really really fun read

[weirdlookindog]

Richard Corben (1940-2020) - Uncle Creepy

[tinytimism]

touch me baby put your lips on mine

could go to hell but we’ll probably be fine

[thehauntedrocket]

Elvira Mistress Of The Dark

Art by Richard Pace

[doctorfriend79]

Game Show Host

[catnamedoggy]

I saw @no-name-blu 's Gameshow Host Wally design on my homepage today and I thought: "Hmmm, why not make an art of em since I'm a gameshow enthusiast too?"

So, here it is..

Gameshow Host Wally... in Match Game!

Version without noise grain and discoloration:

Reference image are from Gene Rayburn's Match Game (1973). (good show btw, love the 2016 Alec Baldwin too.)

[darlinhutchence]

video beat barbie!

michael & tim bringing absolute chaos everywhere they go

[space--daemon]

i'm realising that i view palamedes in much the same way i view gansey in that i can pretty much imagine both of them saying everything the other one says.

gansey would absolutely tell ronan to 'go loud' and palamedes would pleasantly ask "what fresh hell is this".

the only difference is pal would never be a republican

[riepu10]

@kennyhostylist The Handsome @richardcarmitage attending the screening of his new @netflixuk miniseries “Obsession” at the @britishfilminstitute last night

[nightmare-foundation]

I'm going to fucking Scream

There's so many parallels between No Way Home and A Death In The Family (specifically the movie version, I haven't read the comics yet).

Like. Please tell me I'm not insane for this?? Cause the parallels are jumping out at me and it's making me want to eat drywall. Like at this point the parallels between Peter/Batman and Peter/Jason as well as Joker/Goblin AND May/Bruce in the whole. Condo fight CANNOT be unintentional. There's no fuckin way. You could also argue there's some UTRH vibes thrown in but I'm less sure about that

Like. Idk it really feels like there's a lot of similarities between Jason and Peter. Similar traumas and events even if it's not 1:1. Specifically Peter kinda reminds me of Jason pre-hood.

A lot of people argue Peter is exactly like Dick, and he is!! There's definitely similarities there you can't deny. But MCU Peter, at least right now, reminds me WAY more of Jason than Dick. Peter, in other media such as the Spider-Man games, is definitely more like Nightwing than anything. But MCU Peter always felt fundamentally different and I think this us why??

He feels way more like Jason and I can't really explain it bc I'm frankly worried about getting it wrong. It feels more like Peter's journey in the mcu is there to match Jason, not Dick. Not listening to his mentor, being a brash and rebellious teenager (not angry, but he IS rebellious), wanting to do good no matter what, but life beating him down time and time again- fucking up and almost/actually getting people killed (the ferry, or Felipe), having issues with their superhero billionaire father figure, getting benched because of their brash actions, almost dying, ACTUALLY dying bc of said rebellious nature, green and/or purple themed nutcases killing them/someone close to them just to prove a point (one bad day vs no good deed goes unpunished), wanting said green nutcase dead, etc.

Like. Please tell me I'm not insane for this?? Ever since I got into batfam stuff all of these parallels have been jumping out at me. They feel REALLY similar except Peter hasn't, and very likely won't, go down the path Jason did.

Honestly this makes me really want to see a movie exploring Peter struggling to hold back, dealing with his trauma and darkness, though lbr, that likely won't happen. It'd be cool tho

[lackadaisicalnereid]

Part 1 / ?

[transrightsjimin]

i just learned about a black host of a somewhat main symbiote in venom (scott washington as hybrid) and i just discovered that character is alr dead in the comics :(( damnit they do have a lack of diversity w the hosts of the more prominent symbiote characters / venom symbiote family. same goes for the terrible writing and drawings of women like anne and beck etc in the old comics

i liked what i read of him so far in a comic from the 90s. he really wanted systemic change in the neighbourhood and stuff and teamed up w a friend who didn't have a symbiote but was open to finding one

[angel---eater]

y'know. its been about 2 weeks since i learned from a friend with legit sources that difficulty regulating ur body temperature is an autism thing. and i still can't believe it. but we've been doin that our whole life so what hte fuck

[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we present Maurice Tarplin, The Mysterious Traveler, as he rides the rails and tells the tale of "The Man The Insects Hated"!

[take-care-with-your-glasses]

I miss this show.