Ben Winegard



I hate wokism and believe BLM is a cultish movement based upon falsehoods Benjamin Mark Winegard, best known as Ben Winegard is an American far-right psychologist whose political views align with the alt-lite. Winegard took his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Missouri. He was previously an assistant professor at Carroll College and a former assistant professor of psychology at Hillsdale College.

Winegard is a proponent of HBD ("human-biodiversity") pseudoscience and opponent of Black Lives Matter. He writes articles for Areo Magazine and Quillette. He claims his main interest is "Western Civilization", and he opposes political correctness and multiculturalism.

Winegard has a twin brother, Bo Winegard. Of the two, Bo Winegard seems to hold more extreme views. For example, Winegard (unlike his brother) doesn't support eugenics. Nevertheless, both brothers have co-authored papers with eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly.

In response to this RationalWiki article documenting Winegard's racist views, he deleted his Twitter account and now works as a private consultant. However, Winegard still publishes controversial work on race with his brother.

Race realism
Similar to his brother, Winegard supports controversial far-right and HBD figures such as Charles Murray, Emil Kirkegaard, A New Radical Centrism and Steve Sailer on Twitter. Winegard once commented he was going to have his racialist work published in one of Kirkegard's controversial OpenPsych journals. In 2019, Winegard posted:

Winegard admits he has a problem publishing his papers on race in mainstream journals, so looks for fringe publishers. OpenPsych publishes racist pseudoscience and its journals are widely considered to be pseudojournals because they don't use formal peer-review.

Concerning his "race realist" views, Winegard has stated:

Opposition to Black Lives Matter
Winegard has criticized Black Lives Matter (BLM) on his Twitter as a movement based on falsehoods. In July 2020 he posted "There’s a good case to be made that the sacred tenets of Christianity are more plausible than those of Black Lives Matter. I am certainly open to the argument". Winegard opposes BLM protests, "Frankly, if this is how people are going to behave, shutting things down was moronic." Winegard has described BLM as a "quasi-religious cult founded on demonstrable bulls**t.

Religious beliefs
Winegard is an atheist, and has flirted with the Christ myth theory, claiming "there’s a reasonable case that Jesus did not exist".

RationalWiki
He's pissed at RationalWiki.

Winegard denies being far-right or even particularly right-wing.🇱🇮 One of his dubious arguments for this is the fact he voted for Biden seemingly ignoring there are white nationalists such as Richard Spencer who voted Biden too.

Deletion spree
In early 2023, Winegard deleted his Twitter account and removed all of his other social media posts that were critical of Black Lives Matter. Winegard is no longer associated with Hillsdale College and now works as a private consultant.