520:: "People can and do change, even those with extreme views like these, but there’s not much evidence that happened here. As the writer Jonathan Katz notes, Hanania recently wrote, 'These people are animals, whether they’re harassing people in subways or walking around in suits,' in an angry tweet about the Black district attorney of Manhattan indicting a white man who
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Richard Hanania, an influential anti-woke writer, published a series of pseudonymous posts at racist publications in the late 2000s and early 2010s. In a Substack post he rejected his old comments, but close observers of his contemporary work were hardly surprised by
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Hanania did not deny that he was "Richard Hoste", writing: "Recently, it’s been revealed that over a decade ago I held many beliefs that, as my current writing makes clear, I now find repulsive." He also wrote that he was "the target of a cancellation effort" because "left-wing journalists dislike
335:. In a 2023 essay, Hanania wrote that the only way to reduce crime is "a revolution in our culture or form of government. We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people. Blacks won't appreciate it, whites don't have the stomach for it." The essay caught the attention of
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Richard Hoste. He acknowledged and disavowed his writing under the pseudonym when it was reported in 2023. A number of journalists note that Hanania continues to make racist statements under his own name.
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Hanania was the true identity of a poster, "Richard Hoste", who had written articles for multiple far-right publications between 2008 and the early 2010s, including
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