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What Next TBD: Tech's Mask Off Moment

Slate Technology

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When conservative writer Richard Hanania’s old posts, originally published under a pseudonym, came to light, people were shocked at just how racist and reactionary they were. Perhaps less shocking were the tech moguls who were revealed to be supporting him.  Guest: Anil Dash, technologist and writer, and the head of Glitch If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.

0:03.0

Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.

0:08.0

You'll get to know the difference.

0:10.0

New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.

0:13.0

Until 9th of September from 11 AM,

0:17.0

participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:20.0

My good friend from 11 a.m., participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:28.8

My good friend, Richard Hanania, I've gotten to know you over the last couple of years.

0:34.7

A few months ago, GOP presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur, Vivek Ramoswamy,

0:39.1

talked about affirmative action on his podcast. Near the end of the episode, his guest, Richard Hanania, told a story about his time in law school at the University of

0:44.8

Chicago when two of his peers were discussing another student who'd failed the bar exam.

0:50.2

So it was something they were talking about. And they're like, oh, he's a white male. That's very strange. And they're like, oh, no, I heard he might be Hispanic. And their assumption was,

0:57.6

if he was a white male, he would have got into University of Chicago Law School on merit, he wouldn't

1:01.2

have failed the bar. Texas. He's been

1:12.9

published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other places. The organization he runs,

1:17.8

the Center for Study of Partizanship and Ideology, publishes studies that are frequently cited by

1:23.3

a right-wing activist, promoting ideas like negative stereotypes of people are accurate,

1:28.8

and homosexuality, liberalism, and mental illness are all strongly correlated.

1:34.5

It's the kind of stuff that's steeped in bigotry, hiding behind the veneer of think-tank

1:39.2

respectability and cleaned up to be presentable to the masses.

1:47.3

But reports and cleaned up to be presentable to the masses. But reporting from the Huffington Post reveals that for years,

1:51.1

Hanania explicitly wrote about his disdain for people of color

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