[Daishiman]

This should be a top-level comment.

If the author's claims are true, I can hardly MSU for the decision.

A geneticist hosting and associating with a white supremacist and being a holocaust denier are not exactly the sort of academic liberty we should be standing up for.

[blisterpeanuts]

Not sure about Unz, but Molyneux is hardly a "white supremacist".

[Daishiman]

Unz certainly is and Hsu seems to understand well his opinions on several matters.

"Hsu praised Unz for writing an article entitled “The Myth of American Meritocracy.” In the “Primary Bibliography” of that article Unz cited works by notorious scientific racist, Steve Sailer, two books by segregationist writer Nathaniel Weyl, and a book by Richard Lynn, well-known for his sloppy research on race, on “Jewish Intelligence and Achievement.” Lynn’s book was published by Richard Spencer, an alt right organizer of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

Years later, when Hsu hosted Unz on his podcast, Hsu describes Unz as “an old friend of mine.” Unz,the like Hsu was trained as a theoretical physicist. He also put his IQ as 214 on a job application once, which seems to impress Hsu. Me, I’d wonder about the kind of person who would claim such a thing since such "

[DuskStar]

This the article you're thinking of? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of...

That article says that a large part of why US university admissions aren't purely merit based... is that jewish students were better qualified, and university administrators didn't want a primarily-jewish student body, leading to changing admissions standards in the 1920s. He might cite people you're calling neo-nazis, but the article didn't seem anti-jewish to me at all.

EDIT: yeah, reading further... Ugh. Not exactly friendly, even if he doesn't seem to be insinuating we should fire up the ovens. (basically summarizable as "jews are now admitted at many times the rates they should be if you extrapolate from things like test scores, national merit scholars, or other academic-only criteria")

[bJGVygG7MQVF8c]

The main thrust of "The Myth of American Meritocracy" is to extensively document the evidence for Asian quotas being in effect at elite schools. These are no different from the Jewish quotas put in place to keep out Jews in the last century.

[ylem]

I asked this earlier, but are these out of context questions? I am not familiar with the guy: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

[bJGVygG7MQVF8c]

The SPLC has zero credibility, it's a grift. This is the group that labeled Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali hateful extremists.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/28/morris-de...

It's really important to keep in mind the political economy of NGOs these days — it goes a long way to explaining current events.

[mistermann]

> a white supremacist and being a holocaust denier

Are these facts?

EDIT: It's sad that the notion of factualness gets constantly downvoted on HN, on an article about a science. Where will we be two or three years down the road?