You may have seen that the Guardian, a newspaper linked to slavery, recently published a big exposé on “race science”. Then about a week later, Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast an hour-and-a-half-long documentary on the “far right”. Much of the material for these two offerings came from footage obtained by an undercover journalist who works for the left-wing activist organisation Hope not Hate. Posing as an investor, he secretly filmed himself talking to various individuals, including our former editor-in-chief Matt Archer.
For readers who aren’t familiar with Hope not Hate, it’s essentially Britain’s equivalent to the SPLC. Courageously standing against the emotion of “hate”, they paint anyone expressing an opinion that’s even slightly right-wing as “racist” or “far Right”. Earlier this year, they published an article on the “State of Hate” that characterised Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party (which oversaw record levels of immigration) as harbouring a “Radical Right insurgency”. And in the midst of England’s anti-immigration riots, their CEO falsely claimed that a Muslim woman had been doused with acid.
As for the Guardian’s “criticisms” of us, none of them comes close to a serious scientific or philosophical argument. Their exposé is basically one long point-and-sputter, featuring all the usual epithets: “dangerous”, “discredited”, “far right” etc. They couldn’t even get basic things right. For example, they claim we believe in the “genetic superiority of certain ethnic groups”. Yet Bo wrote an article last year saying the exact opposite.
They do quote several “experts” to attack the bogeyman of “scientific racism”. As you may have noticed, this is a wholly bad-faith tactic. Redefining your opponents’ views as something negative doesn’t actually qualify as refuting them. It would be like us labelling the views we disagree with as “scientific communism” and then pointing out that there’s no good evidence for “scientific communism”. In terms of Paul Graham’s disagreement hierarchy, they barely progressed beyond name-calling.
One of the people they enlist is Adam Rutherford (excuse us, Dr. Adam Rutherford) who boasted on Twitter that he “helped with” this “incredible investigation”. Remarkably, he then criticised Ed Dutton for putting out a “doxxing request” after Dutton asked his supporters for information about the undercover journalist. When Noah and Diana pointed out to Rutherford that the investigation he “helped with” involved doxxing, he claimed he didn’t know what they were talking about. We still can’t be sure if he was just playing dumb or genuinely can’t see the hypocrisy.
Another issue with the Guardian article is that a substantial part of it is dedicated to a guy called Erik Ahrens, who has never been an employee of Aporia or the Human Diversity Foundation (an organisation owned by Emil Kirkegaard). The reason Ahrens got mixed up in this is that, at the time Matt was secretly filmed by the undercover journalist, he and Ahrens were working together on an unrelated project. Incidentally, Matt’s departure from Aporia in August had nothing to do with the exposé; he left of his own accord before we all found out about it.
Normally, we wouldn’t give two hoots about another lazy hit piece. Unfortunately, our funder was named in the recent coverage and has now stopped funding us. This was surely the activists’ aim all along: they want less debate; we want more. What this means is that we’ll have to rely more on paid subscriptions going forward. We may need to start paywalling our articles in addition to the podcast and research round-up. Hence we’d be grateful if you would consider buying a paid subscription. Don’t let the enemies of free speech win.
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I wonder who the funder was
I hope you find another one
Perhaps Ron Unz would be interested in getting involved or publishing your material
Why is it that there are no right wing billionaire funders? When did they and the money laundering foundations all become fascist? I don’t blame sites going for subscriptions but if like me you look at a lot of them the bill soon mounts up.
To varying degrees Musk, Murdoch, the Walton family. I expect there are others but agree they seem to be in a minority. It would be interesting to understand why. Probably billionaires have an interest in preserving the status quo. Luke Johnson is not a billionaire but I think he might find DS.
I agree it mounts up. I subscribe to a few sites and don’t even have time to look at all of them.
I don’t know if you could describe him as right wing but Ron Unz is pretty rich and funds his site – he is a free speech absolutist.
I guess we have to keep doing these commonsense, factual “replies to hit jobs”, if only for the sake of those unfamiliar with culture war tactics who don’t realise what’s really going on.
Nevertheless, we should be clear that none of these far left, neo-Marxist organisations is remotely interested in sensible debate and discussion. Their only interest is in stirring up trouble.
I also strongly doubt that they truly care about their pet “victim groups”
IIRC the SLPC were also a factor in the speedy linking of Jo Cox’s murderer to the “far-right”, on the basis of a leaked bookshop receipt. Perhaps some ticket clerk will now leak the names of selected attendees at today’s rally in Madison Square Garden?
This is the ‘Hate Not Hope’ mentality in action. The irony being that Mahyar Tousi was actually a refugee from Iran, but he doesn’t look very welcome here from this deranged, hate-filled mob. But because he opposes what they stand for he’s labelled as ”fascist scum”. Make it make sense! I just think anyone who holds a ”refugees welcome” sign ( or a socialist workers one, obviously ) hates their country and if you hate your own country then you are the enemy within, as far as I’m concerned;
”This is @MahyarTousi
whose family fled the Islamic regime in Iran. He met up with counter demonstrators who bully, molest & harass him.
They call him a Nazi and suggest he kills himself.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1850478074237726742
This is where ”refugees welcome” gets you. And yes, I realise that there will be some legitimate refugees such as Christians and gay people fleeing persecution in majority Muslim lands, but I somehow don’t imagine it’d be these guys rocking up with no I.D, having deliberately left their documentation at home or chucked it overboard on the journey over so’s they can’t be vetted. Anybody arriving without documents, or fake documents, should be turned around and made to leave;
”After a Syrian migrant stabbed a 4-year-old girl in Bavaria’s Allgäu region in Germany, nearly murdering her, he will not serve a day in prison. Instead, he has been sentenced to life in a psychiatric hospital. The judge also expressed anger that the case is being used as an argument in favor of immigration restriction by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Mohamed S. was given his sentence of life in a psychiatric hospital in the Ravensburg Regional Court. The public prosecutor had sought attempted murder, and the jury also convicted him of this charge.
The attack, which saw the migrant stab the little girl in a supermarket in Angen im Allgäu in April of this year, nearly killed her. At random, he plunged a 20-centimeter-long knife into the girl with “four powerful stabs.” The migrant deeply punctured the little girl’s intestines and stomach, tearing them to bits. He then ran away from the scene.”
https://rmx.news/article/syrian-migrant-who-brutally-stabbed-a-4-year-old-girl-will-serve-no-prison-time/
“I just think anyone who holds a ”refugees welcome” sign ( or a socialist workers one, obviously ) hates their country and if you hate your own country then you are the enemy within, as far as I’m concerned.”
Nailed it Mogs. 100% agree.
HNH part of the Gestaop fascist censorship complex.
This is why a majority of the pop with an IQ over 75 (not Kamala Harris), have turned off the fake news mainstream/fake science media.
I hope you can make a living and survive the neo-Himmlers and globalists.
Don’t bother replying to Marxist filth such as hate not hope.