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by colatkinson 978 days ago
Yeah to be honest I think approvingly quoting the author of "The Fascist Manifesto" probably well exceeds the cutoff for "dogwhistle." At this point the only thing left is for a16z to start a youth brigade and invade Ethiopia.
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m-ee 978 days ago
Marc did a podcast chatting about tv shows with fascist and white supremamcist Richard Hanania, so maybe I shouldn't have been as surprised as I was to see that.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-suprema...

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nl 978 days ago
This is very troubling, because Hanania is a genuine white supremacist.

But it turns out he hid it well, and that HuffPost expose only came out two years after the Andreessen podcast, so it's reasonable to think he didn't know.

And on the podcast Andreessen makes a pretty strong criticism of the Right (as well as the left):

> And the main principle of the right is that it hates the left. This is the old Buckley thing: the role of conservatism is to stand athwart history yelling stop. Which from the right you view as all social change happening around us is from the left, driving things further to the left. They’re all leading societies in directions the left thinks they should go, and that those things are bad because they’re against tradition, history, the way things have always worked and things that have been proven.

> So I think technology kind of gets trapped up in this dynamic. To your point, the left hates technology because they hate capitalism because they hate markets because they’re anti-egalitarian, we kind of slot naturally into that critique. And the right hates technology because it seems like technology is a tool of the left.

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m-ee 978 days ago
In what way did he hide it well? I’d best describe the story as “racist has a secret life where he’s even more racist”

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/165754101074508185...

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nl 978 days ago
> In what way did he hide it well?

I don't know - I'm just going off the HuffPost article you posted where they exposed it ("Unmasking Richard Hoste").

> https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/165754101074508185...

Again, this was after the HuffPost article came out, and after the Andreessen interview.

I'd note that Hanania also interviewed Steven Pinker who I don't think anyone has accused of being a racist even by association.

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m-ee 978 days ago
Pinker associated with known racist Steve Sailer and there’s plenty of articles calling his views on IQ race science.
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