Richard Hanania



If I owned Twitter, I wouldn’t let feminists, trans activists, or socialists post.

Richard Hanania (born August 28, 1985) is an American conservative, grifter transphobe, anti-feminist, eugenicist and fake contrarian who presents himself as both against "woke" and "anti-woke" (albeit conservative anti-wokeness  ). Until recently, Hanania was an outspoken conservative and wrote articles for right-wing publications such as Quillette, The American Conservative and The Wall Street Journal.

He maintains a blog at Substack and also runs the think tank The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology which has been described as "right of center".

Background
Hanania was born in 1985. He is of Palestinian Christian background and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Hanania holds a PhD in political science and is a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is currently the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He lives in the Los Angeles area and has a daughter.

Hanania was an outspoken conservative until he began rebranding himself as unorthodox and having delusions he is idiosyncratic:

This is despite the fact most his views (documented below) are banal right-wing.

Hanania claims to be autistic.

Views
Richard Hanania is a conservative historian/blogger for substack. He hates trans people, leftists, seems to be pretty flirty with race science, thinks the west is too feminized, etc.

Interracial crime
Hanania has acquired a following by racists for his controversial views on interracial crime. He has been criticised for making "incendiary comments."

We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people. Blacks won't appreciate it, whites don't have the stomach for it.

Hanania is a mutual follower on Twitter of the white nationalist Anatoly Karlin who is on record as describing black people as "pathologically criminalized" and BLM a "negrolatry religion". When this was pointed out in a comments section of his Substack in an article where he praises Karlin, he deleted all these comments.

A search of "black people" (or similar terms) on Hanania's Twitter account reveals the extent of his obsession with interracial crime but virtually only if the victim is white.

Black crime was the reason they originally got rid of comments in newspapers of major cities. It’s basically all people wanted to talk about. With free speech it’s happened on Twitter too. People don’t like cities being wastelands. Maybe we should solve that problem.

Hanania has praised Elon Musk for engaging in discussion on his interracial crime threads.

He promotes conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims, liberals are misleading on interracial crime statistics:

In May 2023, Hanania wrote a blog post titled "Interracial Crime and Perspective".

On veganism
Hanania has made a tweet promoting veganism which confused some of his anti-vegan followers:

Make all prisons serve vegan food. Wholeheartedly endorse. The factory farms are torture, if we can’t all stop eating meat, at least prevent the worst among us from causing more suffering.

However, he is in fact a massive meat and dairy eater:

Like half my meals are salami and cheese followed by ice cream and it’s pretty great.

I often eat meat with potato chips on the side instead of sandwiches.

In June 2023, Hanania authored an article claiming that vegans have won the ethical argument but he is not a vegan because he "like[s] the way animals taste" and wants to be "in a good physical condition" as a meat diet is the only diet that gives him an acceptable calorie-to-protein ratio.

Hanania's article has been criticized by vegans for containing contradictions and inaccuracies:

Richard doesn’t seem honest in the article. He admits taste is a poor excuse, but then tries to justify his actions by appealing to the need for lean protein, which he falsely claims can’t be obtained from nonanimal sources. I detect willful ignorance there, if not a blatant lie.

Opposition to lockdowns
Hanania opposed lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic but supported vaccines.

His think tank CSPI in March 2021, published "The Case Against Lockdowns".

Criticism of BLM
Hanania opposes and has criticised Black Lives Matter. He has described BLM as a "religion".

Hanania has made thinly veiled racist remarks about George Floyd to fellow conservative Matt Walsh as recently as January 26, 2023.

Transphobia
Hanania is staunchly opposed to trans rights and has equated being transgender with a "front" for paedophilia after retweeting Andy Ngo:

I know we’re all trying to be tolerant, modern folks over here but it seems like this trans thing is really a front for a lot of behavior that we usually all denounce pretty forcefully.

He has described trans rights as a "religion" and LGBT as "hysterical lunacy".

On Twitter, Hanania pals around with his white nationalist friend Karlin to troll transexuals.

Views on women
Hanania opposes women being older than men in marriages (but not vice-versa).

He has oddly criticised the fact Biden's granddaughter is three years older than her husband.

He identifies as an anti-feminist and has written a blog post linking female sports to feminism.

Immigration
Hanania holds ambivalent views on immigration:

Eugenics
Hanania supports eugenics.

He has been criticised by some Christians for tweeting he supports aborting foetuses with down syndrome.

In 2022, Hanania spoke with eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly on the topic of "Building Better People".

Pro-natalism
Hanania supports pro-natalism to increase fertility rates. He has praised Viktor Orbán for his pro-natalist policies:

Hanania wrote a blog post titled "You Should Have Kids".

Incest
Hanania has disturbing views on incest:

He appears to completely ignore statistics which reveal intrafamilial (incestual) sex in the vast majority of cases is between parents and underage victims, in other words child sexual abuse.

Consensual incestual sex between adults is extremely rare.

Ties to the far-right and holocaust deniers
Hanania is a mutual follower of several far-right Twitter accounts including Emil Kirkegaard, Anatoly Karlin and Laura Loomer. He has further defended Karlin and Kirkegaard as people he enjoys reading in an article titled "Who Are the Enlightened Centrists?".

In May 2023, Hanania posted an article on his website claiming that he had attended a conservative meeting with holocaust denier Ron Unz.

CPSI's tax reports
The journalist has investigated the tax reports of Hanania's The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. He discovered in 2021, the CSPI received a $200,000 donation by Andrew Conru who is the creator of the website AdultFriendFinder which has been described as a "borderline porn hookup site". The CPSI also received a $600,000 donation from an unidentified benefactor.