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Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.

Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.

Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter users who pay $8 a month for a blue check.

Unfortunately, the anonymous Twitter racists aren’t the only ones following Yarvin.

Billionaire Peter Thiel funded Yarvin for years and considers him an important philosopher.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen invested in Yarvin’s tech startup and has been known to accompany him to brunch.

JD Vance has named Yarvin as one of his influences and recently followed him on Twitter.

Elon Musk consulted Yarvin last month when he was thinking about starting a new political party.

These powerful, influential men have gone out of their way to elevate Yarvin and force us to take his ideas seriously.

This reveals something deeply troubling about our political moment. -- Yarvin's compulsive racism isn't a bug in the system—it’s a feature.

He wraps white supremacist ideas in faux-intellectual packaging, playing the jester who says what powerful white men won’t say out loud.

But their support for him is an unmistakable endorsement of the hate he spreads.

Not exactly surprising. But since when can someone openly praised by the vice president of the United States publicly spew racist slurs without a word of condemnation?

https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvins-racist-slurs-havent-scared-off-jd-vance/