It's also with nothing that this article's title was either directly ripped from or just so happens to be identical to a YouTube video about the "party ball" in the video game super smash Bros[1].
There's lots of good criticism of the actual article to expand on here, calling someone a white supremacist because they used an incredibly common title format does not add to that.
These fringe conspiracies on the left are just as troubling as the same ones on the right. Sure it’s possible but highly unlikely that this was an intentional use of that book. I would guess for more likely he has no idea about this book like myself.
Hanania mellowed (matured? Sold out?) immensely in the last 10 years. If you are a white supremacist wanting to read him because of coltonv recommendation, be prepared to be disappointed:
> “I truly sucked back then,” Hanania admits, confirming that, between 2008 and 2012, he posted pseudonymously on several white-supremacist and misogynistic websites […] He confesses he “had few friends or romantic successes and no real career prospects” at the time and was projecting his “personal unhappiness onto the rest of the world.”
He still cites people who contribute to these websites that he describes as "white-supremacist and misogynistic", though. That seems awfully odd for somebody who claims that these beliefs are odious. I also really don't know how else to interpret a call to overturn Griggs v Duke.
Hanania's book is called "The Origins of Woke" and specifically calls for massive changes to Title 7 and jurisprudence surrounding it. Hanania has a record of contributing to explicitly white supremacist web sites. Though they claim to have softened their beliefs, they continue to cite other contributors to these sites.
It is possible that PG is not aware of Hanania's book. But I think the connection is worth interrogating.
You are not trying hard enough. Sure, you managed to allude to Paul Graham being a white supremacist just for using a similar title. How many ways are there to phrase a title for an essay about this topic?
But really my disappointment comes from you not being able to leap to calling him Hitler. Surely someone else in the comments will manage it anyway.
7/10
Could you share the parts that have been "ripped" or "identical" from this book you're talking about? Would be very interesting if true, otherwise kind of despicable to make those claims without any sort of proof whatsoever.
It's also with nothing that this article's title was either directly ripped from or just so happens to be identical to a YouTube video about the "party ball" in the video game super smash Bros[1].
There's lots of good criticism of the actual article to expand on here, calling someone a white supremacist because they used an incredibly common title format does not add to that.
[1]https://youtu.be/lSaNV-83mAQ?si=xAE75fWHcqG17Lfm
It is also similiar to "On The Origin of Species" a far more famous book that I'm sure everyone has heard of.
"either directly ripped or just happens to be near identical" is a pretty wide disjunction—it includes every possible case!
These fringe conspiracies on the left are just as troubling as the same ones on the right. Sure it’s possible but highly unlikely that this was an intentional use of that book. I would guess for more likely he has no idea about this book like myself.
Hanania mellowed (matured? Sold out?) immensely in the last 10 years. If you are a white supremacist wanting to read him because of coltonv recommendation, be prepared to be disappointed:
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1878829377338966310
> One way to understand conservative/liberal differences is to think of conservatives as the people who are intellectually limited and lazy.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/richard-hanania-raci...
> “I truly sucked back then,” Hanania admits, confirming that, between 2008 and 2012, he posted pseudonymously on several white-supremacist and misogynistic websites […] He confesses he “had few friends or romantic successes and no real career prospects” at the time and was projecting his “personal unhappiness onto the rest of the world.”
He has denounced his past beliefs.
He still cites people who contribute to these websites that he describes as "white-supremacist and misogynistic", though. That seems awfully odd for somebody who claims that these beliefs are odious. I also really don't know how else to interpret a call to overturn Griggs v Duke.
Do you have specific excerpts from the book to push your claim that Paul Graham's writing identifies as a white supremacist?
Not sure why you are mentioning Project 2025 or the civil rights stuff, you lost us there.
Hanania's book is called "The Origins of Woke" and specifically calls for massive changes to Title 7 and jurisprudence surrounding it. Hanania has a record of contributing to explicitly white supremacist web sites. Though they claim to have softened their beliefs, they continue to cite other contributors to these sites.
It is possible that PG is not aware of Hanania's book. But I think the connection is worth interrogating.
You are not trying hard enough. Sure, you managed to allude to Paul Graham being a white supremacist just for using a similar title. How many ways are there to phrase a title for an essay about this topic? But really my disappointment comes from you not being able to leap to calling him Hitler. Surely someone else in the comments will manage it anyway. 7/10
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Could you share the parts that have been "ripped" or "identical" from this book you're talking about? Would be very interesting if true, otherwise kind of despicable to make those claims without any sort of proof whatsoever.
The title.
>It's worth noting that the title of this article