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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 31, 2023

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I have not been particularly impressed on the occasions that Hanania has been linked.

That said, trying to cancel a guy who already says the quiet part out loud is a bit silly. Is that really more extreme than what he normally says?

My (probably terrible) instinct is that he can ignore it, but I also don’t know how much of his money comes from non-substack sources. Publishing and speaking is a weird market.

Disagree with below - it's very different from what he usually says. Discussing your emotional distaste for LGBTs analytically or unemotionally discussing the lower mean IQ of blacks while still ultimately promoting democracy and race-blind meritocracy, arguing the MSM is still better than the right-wing media and talking about how jews are universally successful due to their genes, claiming that veganism is a strong moral position even if he still disagrees with it - is very far from denouncing the "ugly, secular and barren White self-hating and Jewish elite" and promoting the Turner Diaries. e.g. Doglatine wouldn't have claimed Hanania was a very interesting writer if he was still doing the second.

I also think Hanania is more correct now than he was ten years ago, and suspect he has, to a significant extent, actually changed his mind (compare to Karlin's more limited moves in that direction). Although obviously he's still going to strategically conceal some ideas that are too distasteful.

I have not been particularly impressed on the occasions that Hanania has been linked.

If you are very right-wing, he might be a breath of fresh air to see support for stronger right-wing ideas (IQ and merit and correlation with race, crime) coexist with lambasting of weaker right-wing ideas (universal anti-immigration, populism, ...).

I don’t think anti-immigration is a weak idea. I’m personally okay with a small level of immigration but I can understand why one doesn’t want the population to artificially change.

For the most part it's not that far from what he normally says. Some differences are that, for example, as far as I know he doesn't bring up the "Jewish elite" under his birth name. I might have missed him referring to it somewhere, though. Also, when he writes under his birth name he generally has a more equivocational tone than he does in these quotes. These quotes are more blunt.

Did he say anything about Jews other than the 'barren white and Jewish elite' thing when talking about Sarah Palin?

Because he is half Ashkenazi and has married a Jewish woman. They have only one child together, of course.

Hanania isn’t Jewish, he’s a Palestinian Christian.

I thought his mother was Jewish, but I must have imagined that as I can't find anything online about her.

He looks very Jewish, but that isn’t uncommon for Levantine Arabs, obviously.

Well yeah, antisemitism is something that the mainstream is absolutely unwilling to forgive even if they look the other way on disguised racism a lot. He’s not an idiot:

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