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− | '''Claire Lehmann''' is an alt-right [[Australian]] [[anti-feminist]], [[transphobic]] [[crank]] who has been described as "Australia's Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web".<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/australias-mistress-of-the-intellectual-dark-web/ Australia’s Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web]. ''The Spectator''. 2 Jun 2018.</ref> She appears to blame everything bad, even including [[obesity]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5th8DFnH3c</ref><ref>https://www.therebel.media/how_feminism_has_fuelled_obesity_crisis</ref> onto feminists, who she argues are destroying the [[West]] alongside [[leftists]], [[SJW]]s and what she calls "[[blank slate|blank-slatists]]" (in context of [[race and intelligence]] by this she means mainstream [[scientists]] who reject racist [[pseudoscience]]).
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− | Lehmann is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the [[right-wing]] online magazine ''[[Quillette]]''.<ref>https://quillette.com/about/</ref>
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− | She identifies as an Australian [[nationalism|nationalist]] and opposes [[multiculturalism]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpmoAnvnbTw</ref> She's a fan of [[Jordan Peterson]].<ref>She has appeared on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsm6If8wm8 Peterson's podcast] while ''Quillette'' has published articles defending Peterson.</ref>
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− | ==Background==
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− | Lehmann graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in [[Psychology]] and English. She worked 2011-2014 as a Policy Research Assistant at Australian College of Nursing and 2015-2016 as a Communications officer at National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.<ref>[https://everipedia.org/wiki/claire-lehmann/ Claire Lehmann]. Everipedia (last accessed 29 Aug 2018).</ref>
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− | ===The Rebel Media===
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− | She started working for the [[alt-right]] The Rebel Media in 2017 and was interviewed by [[Ezra Levant]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-R0iyvEzKU</ref> According to Lehmann after she graduated from university, she started writing articles, but claims that newspapers rejected her submissions because they were critical of [[feminism]] and she was blacklisted by the [[mainstream media]].{{lie}} This led her to set up her own online publication ''Quillette''. She's made over a dozen anti-feminist and anti-[[SJW]] videos for The Rebel Media.<ref>See [https://www.therebel.media/claire_lehmann?page=1 here] and [https://www.therebel.media/claire_lehmann?page=2 here].</ref>
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− | ===''Quillette'' and HBD controversy===
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− | As Editor-in-Chief of ''Quillette'', Lehmann has allowed numerous [[far-right]], [[racist]] and [[sexist]] individuals publish articles in her online magazine, as well as HBD pseudoscientists, e.g. [[Adam Perkins]] and [[Richard Haier]], the latter of whom publishes controversial studies on [[race and intelligence]]. Lehmann herself has a history of defending "[[HBD|human-biodiversity]]" and [[hereditarianism]] and criticizes what she calls "[[blank slate|blank-slatism]]":<ref>https://clairelehmann.net/2017/10/07/an-interview-with-clay-routledge-at-psychology-today/</ref>
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− | {{quotebox|I think that we are simply offering up an alternative to the blank slate view of human nature that appears to be dominant within the media ecosystem. The blank slate view, which is the idea that who we are is entirely or predominantly the product of culture and socialization, is very common in left-leaning media. And left-leaning media also happens to provide most of today's science [[journalism]]. It's kind of [[ironic]], because the convergent evidence coming out of [[evolutionary psychology]], [[biology]], behavioural [[genetics]] and [[neuroscience]] that falsifies this blank slate view is simply incontrovertible at this point, but most of the media, and even the popular science media keep clinging to it. At times it's just embarrassing.
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− | Another factor is that although conservative or [[libertarian]] magazines are less wedded to blank slate [[dogma]]s, they nevertheless do not give a lot of space to science journalism. So there is a gap in the market for data driven, scientifically literate commentary that does not conform to an outdated view of human nature. Quillette has just run with this.}}
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− | It should be pointed out for variation ''within'' populations, blank-slatism has been thoroughly falsified. However, Lehmann as a proponent of HBD controversially argues against the blank-slate hypothesis for differences ''between'' populations in [[IQ]] which is dubious e.g. Richard Lewontin provided an example where within two populations, [[heritability]] is high, but "the difference between the two groups is due entirely to an environmental factor".<ref>Lewontin, Richard C. (1970). "Race and intelligence". ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.'' 26 (3): 2–8.</ref>
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− | ==Sex and gender binary==
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− | {{cquote|This is patent nonsense. Biological sex in sexually reproducing species *is* a binary. Exceptions, or outliers such as [[intersex]], do not negate this.|||@clairlemon<ref>https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1037460573384990720</ref>}}
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− | Lehmann is a proponent of sex and [[gender binary]] i.e. the erroneous belief there are only two sexes and genders (male and female).
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− | For this reason there is sometimes [[transphobia]] in her tweets and articles she publishes.<ref>https://www.therebel.media/_transgender_is_the_new_black_teens_beg_to_try_out_a_different_sex</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1028030215665016832</ref>
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− | Quilette (the webzine that she runs) has run articles in defense of James Damore's neurosexist bigotry. She has also used a "Just Asking Questions" strategy with regards to autism, wondering whether it supports gender essentialism.
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− | ==External links==
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− | * [https://twitter.com/clairlemon Twitter Account]
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− | * [https://clairelehmann.net/ Personal Website]
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− | * [http://mcclernan.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-much-does-alt-right-claire-lehmann.html How much does alt-right Claire Lehmann of ''Quillette'' hate feminists?]
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