Human Diversity Foundation
| Founded | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Focus | Scientific racism, white nationalism |
| Location |
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| Origins | Pioneer Fund |
Area served | Europe, United States |
Key people | Emil Kirkegaard (founder), Matthew Frost (leader) |
The Human Diversity Foundation (HDF) is a far-right organization founded in 2022 to promote "race science", remigration and white nationalism. HDF publishes the Aporia Magazine and Mankind Quarterly.
History
[edit]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 a limited liability company in Wyoming.[1] The other HDF leaders are Matthew Frost a British former teacher and founder of the Aporia Magazine and Erik Ahrens, a German white nationalist and social media advisor for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).[1] Kirkegaard has controversially pushed for the legalization of child pornography.[2] The Human Diversity Foundation is a rebrand of the Pioneer 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.[3] 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 at Cleveland State University in 2022 for misusing genetic data in his research.[1] Piffer's race and intelligence research was cited by Payton Gendron, perpetrator of the 2022 Buffalo shooting.[1] Another employee of HDF is Edward Dutton, a former editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly and racist YouTuber who promotes eugenics.[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 the University of Oulu for plagiarising a student’s dissertation.[1] HDF has funded a research paper authored by Russell T. Warne.[1]
In October 2024, the Guardian revealed that Andrew Conru, an American businessman, had donated more than $1 million to HDF.[3]
As of October 2024, their website consists solely of "We are a non-profit organization which specializes in researching human diversity. We are not looking for more funding at this time."[4]
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] The Neo Byzantium is led by Erik Ahrens and Matthew Frost who were influenced by the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.[5]
Beliefs
[edit]Remigration
[edit]Emil Kirkegaard, Matthew Frost and Erik Ahrens all support remigration of non-ethnically European immigrants.[3] The term has had popular usage in recent years by far-right political groups in Germany and Austria for the mass deportation of migrants.[6] Frost has stated that Alternative for Germany's key policy should be remigration if the party wins power.[3] Kirkegaard has suggested that families that have settled for two or three generations should be paid to leave.[3]
White nationalism
[edit]HDF has connections to the German far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and plans to create a white-only ethnostate.[1] Erik Ahrens a HDF leader has defended the Waffen-SS and has stated that he wants to create a home for "white, Christian people", as he believes they are under threat from immigration.[1] Ahrens a fan of Donald Trump has commented that "my vision is to one day run in Germany, in a Trump-like fashion".[1] Ahrens who also has connections to the Swiss far-right group Jünge Tat has stated that he wants to establish HDF training camps where members are taught boxing and shooting.[1]
Publications
[edit]Aporia Magazine
[edit]HDF operates the online magazine Aporia as a scientific racism outlet.[1] Matthew Frost founded Aporia in 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 Fleischman is its podcast host.[7] She attended the 2023 Natal Conference with members of the New Right.[8] 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 at Marietta College.[1] In 2020, Winegard published a retracted paper which drew on Richard Lynn’s flawed IQ data.[1] Winegard's race and intelligence research was criticized for resembling pseudoscience.[9][10]
Noah Carl, editor of Aporia, was sacked from the University of Cambridge over allegations that collaborated with far-right extremists.[1][9][11]
White nationalist Jared Taylor, appeared on the Aporia podcast in 2024 to complain against 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 own Mankind Quarterly.[1] It has been described as a "pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality".[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Shukman, Harry; Hermansson, Patrik (2024). "Race Science Inc. Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company". Hope not Hate. Archived from the original on 16 October 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Wolfson, Leo (2024). "White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC". Cowboy State Daily. Archived from the original on 24 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Pegg, David; Burgis, Tom; Devlin, Hannah; Wilson, Jason (16 October 2024). "Revealed: International 'race science' network secretly funded by US tech boss". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ "Human Diversity Foundation". humandiversityfoundation.org. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ "Neo Byzantium: The far-right cult set up to drain its members' bank accounts". Hope not Hate. 2024. Archived from the original on 16 October 2024.
- ^ Kassam, Ashifa (2024). "How remigration became a buzzword for global far right". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 October 2024.
- ^ Ough, Tom (2023). "Psychologist Diana Fleischman on how to train your boyfriend". Prospect Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024.
- ^ Valle, Gaby Del (2024). "The Far Right's Campaign to Explode the Population". Politico. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024.
- ^ a b C. Davies, Huw; MacRae, Sheena E. (15 May 2023). "An anatomy of the British war on woke". Race & Class. 65 (2). SAGE Publications: 3–54. doi:10.1177/03063968231164905. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 258736793.
- ^ Kelly, Jeffrey (2019). "Evolution Working Group on hosting Bo Winegard: 'It was our mistake". The Crimson White. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024.
- ^ Adams, Richard (1 May 2019). "Cambridge college sacks researcher over links with far right". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ Jackson Jr., John P.; Winston, Andrew S. (7 October 2020). "The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence". Review of General Psychology. 25 (1): 3–26. doi:10.1177/1089268020953622. S2CID 225143131.
