Jason Richwine Resigns from the Heritage Foundation

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Heritage Foundation tells me the news without much more detail. The full explanation:

Jason Richwine let us know he’s decided to resign from his position. He’s no longer employed by Heritage.

It is our long-standing policy not to discuss internal personnel matters.

Happily for Richwine, he has other publishers.

Comments

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I thought the Heritage Foundation was flagrantly white nationalist.

Edit: Flagrantly white nationalist, not closeted white nationalist.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I'm not current on what "nationalist" means in this context, but they seem pretty flagrantly racist about something, although the bits I could bear to look at were cranky about Hispanics rather than any of the other usual subjects. I don't care to read far enough to find out if they know that Muslims are not a race.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

"white nationalist" is a bit like "I'm not racist, but..."

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

"We're not a white supremacist organization, we're a white identity organization!"

[jimlj1715.livejournal.com]

Until a relatively few years ago, I considered them one of the 'respectable' conservative think tanks.

I don't know whether they had kept the bat-shit crazy under wraps, or if I just hadn't noticed it.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

"Richwine". When you employ people created by a Dickensian Name Generator machine, you know what you are getting into.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I used to think Dickens was way "over the top" with his character names... but the more I read up on British history the less ridiculous he seems.

-- Steve's name probably reduces to something similarly ludicrous, come to think of it.