Andrew Prokop

That has been the obsession of one particular writer on the online right for several years now. He's been hammering this drum again and again. His name is Richard Hanania. He argued that the roots of wokeness were in federal civil rights law and specifically in this affirmative action executive order and that –

That has been the obsession of one particular writer on the online right for several years now. He's been hammering this drum again and again. His name is Richard Hanania. He argued that the roots of wokeness were in federal civil rights law and specifically in this affirmative action executive order and that –

Instead of just rolling it back, it should be replaced with a new government policy saying that basically you can't have an affirmative action program. That such programs were illegal because they discriminated based on race, that they violated the Civil Rights Act. So, you know, when that executive order came out from Trump, I immediately thought this

Instead of just rolling it back, it should be replaced with a new government policy saying that basically you can't have an affirmative action program. That such programs were illegal because they discriminated based on race, that they violated the Civil Rights Act. So, you know, when that executive order came out from Trump, I immediately thought this

Instead of just rolling it back, it should be replaced with a new government policy saying that basically you can't have an affirmative action program. That such programs were illegal because they discriminated based on race, that they violated the Civil Rights Act. So, you know, when that executive order came out from Trump, I immediately thought this

These are people who have been reading the Richard Hananias, the online right posters who have had their own obsessions and who have been driving these ideas. And the people in power are really listening to them and trying to impose their ideas to reshape this country.

These are people who have been reading the Richard Hananias, the online right posters who have had their own obsessions and who have been driving these ideas. And the people in power are really listening to them and trying to impose their ideas to reshape this country.

These are people who have been reading the Richard Hananias, the online right posters who have had their own obsessions and who have been driving these ideas. And the people in power are really listening to them and trying to impose their ideas to reshape this country.

That was Vox's Andrew Prokop. Coming up next. But it sounds like based on what you're saying that you are able to take credit for killing DEI. Is that how you see it?

That was Vox's Andrew Prokop. Coming up next. But it sounds like based on what you're saying that you are able to take credit for killing DEI. Is that how you see it?

That was Vox's Andrew Prokop. Coming up next. But it sounds like based on what you're saying that you are able to take credit for killing DEI. Is that how you see it?

Richard Hanania is a substacker and author of the book The Origins of Woke, Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. All right, so Richard, in the summer of 2023, you were a public intellectual. You'd been writing op-eds for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic.

Richard Hanania is a substacker and author of the book The Origins of Woke, Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. All right, so Richard, in the summer of 2023, you were a public intellectual. You'd been writing op-eds for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic.

Richard Hanania is a substacker and author of the book The Origins of Woke, Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. All right, so Richard, in the summer of 2023, you were a public intellectual. You'd been writing op-eds for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic.

And then that August, The Huffington Post reported that years earlier, you'd written racist, misogynist posts on right-wing websites. I'm going to read a couple of those here. For the white gene pool to be created, millions had to die. Race mixing is like destroying a unique species or a piece of art. It's shameful.

And then that August, The Huffington Post reported that years earlier, you'd written racist, misogynist posts on right-wing websites. I'm going to read a couple of those here. For the white gene pool to be created, millions had to die. Race mixing is like destroying a unique species or a piece of art. It's shameful.

And then that August, The Huffington Post reported that years earlier, you'd written racist, misogynist posts on right-wing websites. I'm going to read a couple of those here. For the white gene pool to be created, millions had to die. Race mixing is like destroying a unique species or a piece of art. It's shameful.

Hispanic people don't have the requisite IQ to be a productive part of a first world nation. You said Muslims can't assimilate because of genetic and IQ differences between them and native Europeans. And you suggested that people with low IQs might be sterilized. Were those sincere beliefs that you held?

Hispanic people don't have the requisite IQ to be a productive part of a first world nation. You said Muslims can't assimilate because of genetic and IQ differences between them and native Europeans. And you suggested that people with low IQs might be sterilized. Were those sincere beliefs that you held?

Hispanic people don't have the requisite IQ to be a productive part of a first world nation. You said Muslims can't assimilate because of genetic and IQ differences between them and native Europeans. And you suggested that people with low IQs might be sterilized. Were those sincere beliefs that you held?