Human Diversity Foundation
| Founded | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Type | Limited liability company |
| Focus | Scientific racism,eugenics,white nationalism |
| Location |
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| Origins | Pioneer Fund |
Area served | Europe, United States |
Key people | Emil Kirkegaard, Matthew Frost, Erik Ahrens |
TheHuman Diversity Foundation(HDF) is afar-rightcompany founded in 2022 to publish "race science"through theAporia MagazineandMankind Quarterly.It also publishes Edward Dutton'sThe Jolly Hereticpodcast. Key persons of the HDF including its founder supportremigrationandwhite nationalism.
History
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The Human Diversity Foundation was founded by Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish far-right activist under his legal name William Engman in 2022.[1]It was registered as alimited liability companyinWyoming.[1]The other HDF leaders are Matthew Frost, a British former teacher and founder of theAporia Magazine,and Erik Ahrens, a Germanwhite nationalistand social media advisor for the far-right partyAlternative für Deutschland(AfD).[1]Kirkegaard has controversially pushed for the legalization ofchild pornography.[2][3]The Human Diversity Foundation is a rebrand of thePioneer Fund.[1]According to Matthew Frost, assets from the Pioneer Fund were given to Emil Kirkegaard which were used for the HDF.[1]
Emil Kirkegaard leads an "underground research wing" of the HDF consisting of about 10 researchers.[4]Members of the HDF research team include Bryan Pesta, Bo Winegard and Davide Piffer.[1]Pesta who had received money from the Pioneer Fund was dismissed from his position atCleveland State Universityin 2022 for misusing genetic data in his research.[1]Piffer's writing aboutrace and intelligencewas cited by Payton Gendron, perpetrator of the2022 Buffalo shooting.[1]Another employee of HDF is Edward Dutton, a former editor-in-chief ofMankind Quarterlyand racist YouTuber who promoteseugenics.[1]Dutton has suggested that Black people "don’t do very well academically and don’t behave very well either".[1]Dutton was fired from his position at theUniversity of Oulufor plagiarising a student's dissertation.[1]HDF has funded a research paper authored by Russell T. Warne.[1]
In October 2024,the Guardianrevealed thatAndrew Conru,an American businessman, had donated more than $1 million to HDF.[4]According to their reporting, "After being approached by theGuardian,Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of 'non-partisan academic research'. "[4]
As of October 2024, their website consists solely of this statement: "We are a non-profit organization which specializes in researching human diversity. We are not looking for more funding at this time."[5]
Neo Byzantium
[edit]HDF plans to create a private far-right club called Neo Byzantium to obtain income.[1]Membership starts at £650 and rises to £5,000.[1]It was to be led by Erik Ahrens and Matthew Frost.[6]
UK Biobank controversy
[edit]In October 2024, journalists fromThe Guardianreported that Emil Kirkegaard and HDF had accessedUK Biobankdata.[7]Hidden camera footage revealed Matthew Frost in 2023 claiming that "they’ve managed to get access to the UK Biobank,” and to know more "talk to Emil".[7]In response, a UK Biobank representative commented that they have "continued to monitor and prevent attempts to access the resource by Kirkegaard and other researchers believed to be connected with him". The representative also commented that HDF are "not bona fide researchers".[7]
Publications
[edit]Aporia Magazine
[edit]HDF operates the online magazineAporiaas a scientific racism outlet.[1]Matthew Frost foundedAporiain 2021 and sold it to Emil Kirkegaard.[1]Frost has stated that the magazine should be read "by the elite, people aspiring to the elite".[1]
Diana Fleischmanis its podcast host.[8]She attended the 2023 Natal Conference with members of theNew Right.[9]Bo Winegard,Aporia’s executive editor has stated that he believes racial stereotypes are "reasonably accurate" and has requested that his readers embrace "white identity politics".[1]Winegard was dismissed from his position atMarietta College.[1]In 2020, Winegard published a retracted paper which drew onRichard Lynn’s flawed IQ data.[1]Winegard's race and intelligence research was criticized for resemblingpseudoscience.[10][11]
Noah Carl,editor ofAporia,was sacked from theUniversity of Cambridgeover allegations that he had collaborated with far-right extremists.[1][10][12]
White nationalistJared Taylor,appeared on theAporiapodcast in 2024 to complain about multiracial societies.[1]He commented that "there is no possibility of blacks and whites living peacefully together".[1]
Mankind Quarterly
[edit]HDF have stated that they ownMankind Quarterly.[1]It has been described as a "pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality".[13]
The Jolly Heretic
[edit]HDF publishes Edward Dutton'sThe Jolly Hereticpodcast and newsletter.[1]Dutton is reported to be on the HDF payroll at approximately $40,000 per year. In November 2023,The Jolly Hereticearned $62,400 in annual revenue which was put into the HDF.[1]The podcast includes documentaries and interviews from Dutton.[1]In May 2024, Dutton released 1492, a documentary about Muslim rule in medieval Europe. The full documentary can be viewed by paid subscribers. In the documentary Dutton compares theMuslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsulain the 700s to contemporary Muslim immigration to Europe.[14]
Far-right activism
[edit]HDF plans to create a white-onlyethnostateby forcibly expelling non-ethnically European minorities, a tactic they describe as "remigration".[1][4]This term has become a populareuphemismin recent years among far-right political groups in Germany and Austria to refer to the mass deportation of minorities.[15]HDF has connections to the German far-right political partyAlternative for Germany(AfD).[1]HDF Leader Matthew Frost has stated that AfD's key policy should be remigration if the party were to take power.[4]Kirkegaard has suggested that families that have settled for two or three generations should be paid to leave.[4]
Erik Ahrens, a HDF leader, has defended theWaffen-SSand has stated that he wants to create a home for "white, Christian people", as he believes they are under threat fromimmigration.[1]Ahrens has commented that "[his] vision is to one day run in Germany, in a Trump-like fashion".[1]He went on to say, "It hasn’t been done for 100 years, to run a populist movement centred around a person. I was looking for who can be this, and I probably have to go into that role."[1]
See also
[edit]Similar publications
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