“Anti-Woke” Author Secretly Wrote For Extremist Sites

The Huffington Post reports:

A prominent conservative writer, lionized by Silicon Valley billionaires and a U.S. senator, used a pen name for years to write for white supremacist publications and was a formative voice during the rise of the racist “alt-right,” according to a new HuffPost investigation.

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.

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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 https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

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. https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

He was among the first writers tapped by Richard Spencer to write for https://t.co/74LWWKTpIm, 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/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

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.” https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

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.”https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

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. https://t.co/NOPSmIc0vH

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2023

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— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 25, 2023

“On measure after measure—from thinking that children ought to be obedient, to tolerance of homosexuality…European countries have moved in the direction of greater individualism and secularism in the past 25 years.” https://t.co/dXVmNi0HRB

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 4, 2023