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Alt-center or alt-centre is a misleading term sometimes used by HBD/race realist individuals in the alt-right community (i.e. white supremacists) who try to present themselves as political centrists and moderates because they realise if they openly admitted having a right-wing to far-right bias, this doesn't work too well with their bullshit claims of being "objective" scientists. In other words, it's a form of crypto-politics. The concept of alt-center is used by the alt-right as an attempt to push the Overton window closer to alt-right ideology. Most self-described alt-centrists are associated with the OpenPsych pseudojournals that publish racialism pseudoscience, as well as Quillette founded by alt-right anti-feminist activist Claire Lehmann.
Right-wingers and alt-righters using the alt-center label[edit]
- Emil Kirkegaard: pseudoscientist white nationalist and self-described eugenicist who co-founded OpenPsych pseudojournals because peer-reviewed science journals refuse to publish his crackpot writings on race and hereditarianism. He denies that he is alt-right when he blatantly is, instead describing himself as "heterodox/alt-centrist"[1] when there's nothing heterodox about his thinking; he repeats alt-right talking points and uses their memes. Is known to attack people who label him alt-right and goes to extremes to try to prove his delusions he's somehow a centrist.
- Nathan Cofnas: quasi-alt-righter who espouses alt-right views (with the exception of anti-Semitism because he is Jewish) but tries to present himself as middle-ground between alt-right and SJWs extremes; fixates on race and intelligence and racialism, yet is known to get very defensive and lash out whenever anyone points out his racialist views and links to the HBD alt-right.[2]
- Jonathan Anomaly: eugenicist crank and proponent of racialism and hereditarianism; like Cofnas (who he co-authored an article with in Quillette) Anomaly tries to present himself as a centrist libertarian fighting against both alt-right and SJWs,[3] when his views on race and intelligence and eugenics are shared by the alt-right.
- Noah Carl: far-right[4] pseudoscientist who published a bunch of Islamophobic papers at OpenPsych. Denies being right-wing.Do You Believe That? In April 2019, Carl was stripped of his fellowship at a Cambridge University and sacked from his job, over his publications in OpenPsych and links to far-right extremists.[5][6]
- Bo Winegard: HBD crank[7] who writes for Quillette, has said "I am definitely a member of the alt-center".[8]
- Anatoly Karlin: Russian alt-right anti-Semitic blogger at The Unz Review who once shared a platform with white supremacist Richard Spencer and said he agrees with 70% of the alt-right, including HBD. He now completely avoids the alt-right label, and considers himself an alt-centrist.[9][10]
- Giovanni Dannato: alt-right blogger who writes blog posts about "alt-center neo-tribalism", basically rebranded white nationalism.[11]
- Claire Lehmann: and her magazine Quillette has deceptively published articles[12][13][14] defending centrism, with the goal of trying to present themselves as moderates between right and left-wing, when Lehmann is alt-right (see The Rebel Media) and the magazine certainly has a strong right-wing bias, having published numerous articles supporting HBD, including racialism[15] and most controversially The Bell Curve by Richard Haier.[16]
- Ryan Faulk: so-called race realist and white nationalist; has named his website "Alternative Hypothesis" claiming he is neither alt-right, nor alt-left.[17] However, he then rants about how immigrants of other races supposedly tend to be left-wing - which is not even always true - and kind of shows that he is really alt-right.[citation needed]
- Sean Last: a far right southern nationalist, neo-nazi and white nationalist who later tried to pretend he has no ideological bias and is neither left or right wing.
- Richard Hanania: conservative who has delusions his views are unorthodox. Has labelled his right-wing ideology as "enlightened centrism".[18]
- Simon Webb: a far-right pseudohistorian who makes racist YouTube videos and criticizes black history and immigration but claims to be politically neutral.
- Jesse Singal: a self-professed "liberal" that nonetheless attacks trans rights and plattforms the far right.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1026068789581045760
- ↑ https://twitter.com/nathancofnas/status/1027923870571945984
- ↑ https://quillette.com/2018/03/23/alt-right-regressive-left-common/
- ↑ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/12/no-objecting-cambridge-s-appointment-eugenicist-not-about-free-speech
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cambridge-academic-noah-carl-sacked-over-racist-study-btdwlf5l6
- ↑ https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17456
- ↑ http://www.mcclernan.com/2018/01/quillette-bell-curve-race-and-winegard.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/901489405348761602
- ↑ http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/2795193-rise-alt-center.html
- ↑ http://www.unz.com/akarlin/i-centrist/
- ↑ https://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/defining-the-alt-center-neo-tribalism/
- ↑ https://quillette.com/2017/08/29/centrism-moderate-manifesto/
- ↑ https://quillette.com/2016/09/08/the-new-center-bridging-the-political-divide
- ↑ https://quillette.com/2018/04/10/seeking-refuge-embattled-centre/
- ↑ http://quillette.com/2016/06/23/on-the-reality-of-race-and-the-abhorrence-of-racism/
- ↑ https://quillette.com/2017/06/11/no-voice-vox-sense-nonsense-discussing-iq-race
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/fringeelements/about
- ↑ https://www.richardhanania.com/p/towards-an-enlightened-centrism