Thread by @letsgomathias

NEW @RichardHanania is a right-wing star. A @UTAustin scholar, his fans include JD Vance, Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Rufo. @HarperCollins will publish his book "The Origins of Woke"

HuffPost found he used a pseudonym for yrs to write for white supremacist sites huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Hanania used the pseudonym "Richard Hoste" to become a formative voice during the rise of the racist "alt-right" in the 2010s, writing for the most vile publications in America, including the Occidental Observer, Counter-Currents, Taki’s Mag, & VDare.
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He was among the first writers tapped by Richard Spencer to write for , which became a main propaganda organ of the nascent “alt-right."

He wrote an introductory essay for the site titled “Why An Alternative Right Is Necessary.” https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vHAlternativeRight.com
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Hanania used his "Richard Hoste" pseudonym to call for the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed “race-mixing.” He wrote that Hispanics "don’t have the requisite IQ" to be "part of a first world nation.” huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

He argued for ethnic cleansing, writing that “the ultimate goal should be to get all the post-1965 non-White migrants from Latin America to leave.”

And he wrote that “Women’s liberation = the end of human civilization.”
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HuffPost connected Hanania to his “Richard Hoste” persona by analyzing leaked data from a Diqus data breach that showed him using three of his email addresses to create usernames that commented on white supremacist sites. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

A racist blog maintained by "Richard Hoste" called HBD Books was also registered to an address in Hanania’s hometown. Finally HuffPost found biographical information shared by Hoste that aligned with Hanania’s own life. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Hanania abandoned the "Richard Hoste" persona sometime in the mid 2010s, and started to write under his real name years later, as he wound his way through academia, from Univ. of Colorado to Univ. of Chicago to UCLA to Columbia and now to Univ. of Texas. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

But even while writing under his real name, Hanania didn't abandon the noxious views he advocated while writing under his white supremacist pen name. https://t.co/WINmrNavqhhuffpost.com/entry/richard-…

He nevertheless has risen to prominence in mainstream media.

Hanania has written pieces for NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Newsweek, the National Review, Task & Purpose, Reason, Palladium Magazine, Quillette and The American Conservative, among other places. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

He delivered a lecture to the Yale Federalist Society & was interviewed by the Harvard College Economics Review. He appeared twice on Tucker Carlson. He was a recent guest on a podcast hosted by the CEO of Substack, where he has nearly 20,000 subscribers. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

People Hanania has interviewed for his podcast: Steven Pinker, Chris Rufo, Marc Andressen.

Tech moguls wrote blurbs for his upcoming book: Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy. https://t.co/rii76zAikehuffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Hanania is also a lecturer at @bariweiss's unaccredited school the University of Austin (@uaustinorg), where he was part of the "forbidden courses" program.

Weiss and the university didn't respond to a request for comment. huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Substack co-founder @hamishmckenzie interviewed Hanania recently on his podcast. Neither Mckenzie or Substack replied to HuffPost's request for comment.

Hanania is also president of a think tank called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which has received a ton of dark money donations.

@KatzOnEarth did incredible reporting on CSPI and its funders, which I cite extensively in the piece https://t.co/XUWqtGUL0Nhuffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Here's the first of three great pieces @KatzOnEarth did about Hanania theracket.news/p/anatomy-of-a…

One of Hanania's biggest supporters appears to be Marc Andreesen (@pmarca), the powerful tech mogul, who has appeared on Hanania's podcast three times.

https://t.co/cZJ854MHiAhuffpost.com/entry/richard-…

A theory about why Hanania, a former eugenicist blogger, has emerged as the go-to scribe for the new "Tech Right," aka reactionary billionaires: longtermism. https://t.co/y3BcgMz4BDhuffpost.com/entry/richard-…

Some fallout to look out for:

Will @HarperCollins still publish Hanania's book?
Will he stay a visiting scholar at @UTAustin?
Will @substack take any action?
Will @bariweiss's university fire Hanania?
Will @Stanford still invite him to lecture?

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