David Cumin, the Free Speech Union and the White Supremacist Pseudoscience The two hundred and sixty-ninth name, the Free Speech Union, and the machinery that arrived here from somewhere else Position two hundred and sixty-nine on the letter reads "Dr David Cumin, The University of Aucklamd." The typo belongs to the original, which tells you something about the speed at which these documents are assembled. Figure 1: David Cumin's signature and the links to his ORCID and LinkedIn Profiles, linked from the Hyperlink on the name. The letter asks the rector of Ghent University to protect Nathan Cofnas from disciplinary consequence, and Cofnas describes himself as a race realist. He holds that genes account for a meaningful share of the gap in measured intelligence between racial groups, he wrote in 2024 that under a true meritocracy Black people would vanish from almost every high-profile position outside sport and entertainment, and he has published a defence of what he...
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