Ben Winegard

Benjamin Mark WinegardBenjamin Mark Winegard. ResearchGate. ,Benjamin M. Winegard CV (archived from July 30, 2020). best known as Ben Winegard is an American far-right psychologist whose political views align with the alt-lite. Winegard took his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Missouri. He was previously an assistant professor at Carroll College and is currently assistant professor of psychology at Hillsdale College.Hillsdale College Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members for 2018-19 Academic YearBenjamin Winegard
Winegard is a proponent of HBD ("human-biodiversity") pseudoscience and opponent of Black Lives Matter. He writes articles for Areo Magazine and Quillette.Benjamin Winegard. Areo Magazine.Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for Quillette. "Quillette contributors Ben Winegard, Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell, and John Paul Wright have all either said they are part of the HBD movement or used the term to describe their own research."Bo Winegard. Quillette. He claims not to care about psychology anymore as his main interest is "Western Civilization",Ben Winegard on Twitter, 24 June 2020. and he opposes political correctness and multiculturalism.Ben Winegard on Twitter,15 June 2020. Ben Winegard on Twitter, 8 March 2020.
Winegard has a twin brother, Bo Winegard. Of the two, Bo Winegard seems to hold more extreme views. For example, Winegard (unlike his brother) doesn't support eugenics.Ben Winegard on Twitter, 14 June 2019. Nevertheless, both brothers have co-authored papers with eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly.For example, Dodging Darwin: Race, evolution, and the hereditarian hypothesis, by Bo Winegard, Benjamin Mark Winegard, and Jonathan Anomaly. Personality and Individual Differences, February 2020.
In response to this RationalWiki article documenting Winegard's racist views, he removed his offensive Tweets. However, Winegard still publishes controversial work on race with his brother.Human Biological and Psychological Diversity He is currently a writer for the far-right Aporia Magazine.The Psychotherapy Myth. Aporia Magazine.
==Race realism==
Similar to his brother, Winegard supports controversial far-right and HBD figures such as Charles Murray, Emil Kirkegaard, A New Radical Centrism and Steve Sailer on Twitter.Ben Winegard on Twitter. Winegard once commented he was going to have his racialist work published in one of Kirkegard's controversial OpenPsych journals. In 2019, Winegard posted:
Winegard admits he has a problem publishing his papers on race in mainstream journals, so looks for fringe publishers. OpenPsych publishes racist pseudoscience and its journals are widely considered to be pseudojournals because they don't use formal peer-review. 
Concerning his "race realist" views, Winegard has stated:
==Opposition to Black Lives Matter==
Winegard has criticized Black Lives Matter (BLM) on his Twitter as a movement based on falsehoods. In July 2020 he posted "There’s a good case to be made that the sacred tenets of Christianity are more plausible than those of Black Lives Matter. I am certainly open to the argument".Ben Winegard on Twitter, 24 July 2020. Winegard opposes BLM protests, "Frankly, if this is how people are going to behave, shutting things down was moronic." Winegard has described BLM as a "quasi-religious cult founded on demonstrable bulls**t.Ben Winegard, Twitter, 24 July 2020.
==Religious beliefs==
Winegard is an atheist, and has flirted with the Christ myth theory, claiming "there’s a reasonable case that Jesus did not exist".Ben Winegard on Twitter, 23 July 2020.
==RationalWiki==
He's pissed at RationalWiki.They do libel for a living at RationalWiki. Ben Winegard, Twitter, 24 October 2020.
Winegard denies being far-right or even particularly right-wing. One of his dubious arguments for this is the fact he voted for BidenBen Winegard, Twitter, 24 October 2020. seemingly ignoring there are white nationalists such as Richard Spencer who voted Biden too.JTA and Ron Kampeas, Biden Campaign Forcefully Denounces Endorsement of White Nationalist Richard Spencer. Haaretz, 26 August 2020.
==Deletion spree==
In early 2023, Winegard deleted all of his tweets that were critical of Black Lives Matter.
==References==
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