Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that he’s saying

As a commenter noted yesterday, prominent neo-Nazi Richard Hanania has an incredibly thirsty blog promoting his forthcoming book, The Bell Curve of Turner Diaries. And he helpfully includes the various people who have blurbed it:

“Richard Hanania is a daring and engaging writer who cuts to the heart of the modern civil rights regime, which has had a profound but often hidden impact on American life. He explores the problems, absurdities, and unintended consequences of this form of governance — and outlines a path for reform.” — Chris Rufo

“DEI will never d-i-e from words alone — Hanania shows we need the sticks and stones of government violence to exorcise the diversity demon.” — Peter Thiel

“Richard Hanania is unafraid to transcend the Overton Window on issues of race and gender because he is grounded in irrefutable facts and history. This book delivers a devastating kill shot to the intellectual foundations of identity politics in America. A must-read for liberals and conservatives alike.” — Vivek Ramaswamy

“Exorcise the diversity demon” = make the Civil Rights Act a dead letter until it can be repealed entirely, in case you were wondering. A Republican presidential candidate, a Republican presidential candidate’s muse, and a prominent billionaire vampire are all on board with this program.

“Richard Hanania is one of America’s most important iconoclasts. The Origins of Woke is a pathbreaking analysis of how law has helped to create the culture wars of recent times. Not everyone will like it, but it is one of the most important books of this year—and everyone should read it.” — Tyler Cowen

Ah yes, Respectable Libertarian Tyler Cowen finally turns over his cards.

“Most people think of ‘wokeness’ as a recent and purely cultural phenomenon. In this deeply researched and historically detailed book, Hanania traces its origins to distortions of civil rights law imposed by judges and bureaucrats over many decades, and he offers conservatives a playbook for fighting woke ideology in the fields of law and politics, where they can actually defeat it.” — David Sacks

Ah yes, David Sacks, the Elon Musk toady who gets kept around so Elon won’t always be the very dumbest reactionary South African venture capitalist in the room.

“Many pundits ridiculed Ibram X. Kendi, the high priest of wokeness, when he proposed creating a ‘Department of Anti-Racism’ that would censor ‘racist ideas’ and outlaw racial disparities. But what if such an agency already exists? In this trenchant and well-argued book, Richard Hanania shows how an ostensibly new phenomenon has its roots in a fifty-year-old legal regime — one that has strayed very far from the color-blind ideals that created it.” — Aaron Sibarium

In the wake of Nate Hochman getting shitcanned, Sibarium counseled young wingnuts to maybe not hang around overtly racist message boards. Talk about the good advice you just didn’t take.

Also making an appearance is Bryan “women were freer in 1880 than 2010” Caplan:

“Why is corporate America so woke? Combining social science and legal scholarship, Hanania provides a compelling answer: Not being woke is almost illegal. Elastic definitions of ‘discrimination’ expose the whole business world to incessant politically correct shakedowns. Instead of wasting energy refuting woke absurdities, Hanania advises a laser-like focus on curtailing civil rights litigation. Wokeness has triumphed in the marketplace of ideas with thinly veiled government backing. Take that backing away, and the woke threat will crumble.” — Bryan Caplan

“The law as it stands makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race or gend…I mean, be ANTI-WOKE. This is very bad, and finally a guy who looks like a serial killer is willing to pad this argument out to book length.”

Part of me thinks that the revelation of Hanania’s even-more-racist sock puppets will damage his career, but another part of me thinks that if all of these luminaries supported him not despite his obvious racism but precisely because they agreed with a lot of it, he’ll carry on just fine.