Justin Ward
1 min readJun 9, 2019

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You act like there’s no legitimate reason to protest Charles Murray. The guy’s whole thing is laundering far-right propaganda as disinterested research.

In the Bell Curve, he cites eugenicist Richard Lynn as a “leading expert” on intelligence and includes him in his acknowledgements at the front of the book. Citations of Lynn take up an entire page of the bibliography. This is the same guy who called for the “phasing out” of “inferior cultures.”

He also cites Marian van Court who pens a regular column on the Neo-Nazi site Counter-currents.

So try some intellectual honesty for a second. You’re presenting people like Murray, Milo and Robinson as if they are just advocating for “normal” conservative values of free markets, limited government, family values, etc. That’s not the issue. If you want to make the case for why you think the far-right deserves a voice on college campuses, fine. Be upfront about it.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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