Jean-François Gariépy

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Jean-François Gariépy
Gariépy moderates the Youtube channel "The Public Space" (January 2020)
Gariépy moderates the Youtube channel "The Public Space" (January 2020)
YouTube channel ( news , science , philosophy )
language English
founding April 25, 2011
channels Youtube channel
Subscribers 46,000
(updated Aug. 24, 2020)

Jean-François Gariépy (* 1984) is a French-Canadian biologist and Youtuber close to the Alt-Right . Gariépy runs the YouTube channel The Public Space , where he comments on political, philosophical and scientific topics. The media accuse Gariépy of spreading anti-Semitic messages and promoting the genetic superiority of whites. In a CBS News interview, Gariépy responded to the racism allegation that he did not want to exercise power over ethnic minorities: "I just want a small place in the world where we can think freely."

Family life

Jean-François Gariépy grew up in Saint-Sophie (Québec) and was married three times. Gariépy and his third wife separated in July 2015. In December 2015, Gariépy first son was born. In the ensuing custody battle , Gariépy was accused of "emotional abuse" and sole custody of his ex-wife was transferred. A forensic psychologist attested Gariépy “lack of impulse control” as well as “extremely high intelligence”.

During the custody battle, Gariépy began a relationship with a 19-year-old Mexican American citizen. In order to end the relationship with Gariépy, her parents initiated a process in which the underage of Gariépy's partner was established and the guardianship was transferred to the parents. In an interview with The Daily Beast , Gariépy said US family law was designed to "harass white, straight men."

Researcher

Jean-François Gariépy studied biology at the University of Montreal . The Society for Neuroscience presented Gariépy with the Next Generation Award in 2008. 2012 closed Gariépy his doctoral thesis on the respiratory nervous system of lampreys from. From September 2011 to September 2015, Gariépy conducted research on social interactions in monkeys at the Institute for Brain Sciences at Duke University . During his scientific career, Gariépy published 21 articles, which were cited 529 times.

Gariépy told The Daily Beast that he left Duke University because he was "disappointed with the academic community". Gariépy explained his departure from university on Facebook : “Academia is a weird thing; it is populated with very intelligent, motivated and brilliant people, who are operating in a system that is simply defective to the point of impeding on the very ability of these individuals to engage in a true search for knowledge. In this sense, I am leaving research academia for the same reason that I joined it 12 years ago: in search for a better way to satisfy my hunger for a scientific understanding of the world. ”The Daily Beast author Kelly Weill, however, suspects that Gariépy left Duke University because his US residency status expired following his divorce from his third wife.

The late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein donated $ 25,000 to Gariépy in 2014. Gariépy used the donation to do scientific and philosophical educational work on YouTube through the non-profit organization NEURO.tv.

The revolutionary phenotype

In 2018 Gariépy published The revolutionary phenotype. The monograph is influenced by The selfish gene (1976) and The extended phenotype (1982) by Richard Dawkins . Gariépy argues on the basis of the RNA world hypothesis that today's life forms can be traced back to three phenotypic revolutions, which is shown by the stratification of the genetic code. The last demonstrable phenotypic revolution was the emergence of DNA-based life forms about 3 billion years ago. Gariépy rejects the notion of memetics such as Susan Blackmore and Daniel Denett that cultural developments could influence the future of humanity more than genes: “Memetics is wrong, and Richard Dawkins was right in remaining suspicious of his own idea. As fool replicators, memes cannot challenge the viability of DNA ".

Gariépy warns that the combination of artificial intelligence and genetic modification could lead to a profound change in the human genome. Gariépy closes with a dystopian outlook in which a computer program called "Quantom" triggers a phenotypic revolution: "The computer tasked with the delicate responsibility of selecting the right genes for the next generation of human offspring was referred to as QNA [...] . Sooner or later, humans that were not the phenotypic machine of a self-replicating quantome were wiped out by war, immigration, and the relentless queam hegemony. And so the quantome had acquired a devoted phenotypic machine (humans), a library of knowledge (thanks to its cultural drive), and the ability to mutate and replicate (thanks to the mutaton). It had metarmorphosed into a selfish quantome. "

Gariépy asked Jefferey Epstein for financial support for his book project The revolutionary phenotype in October 2014 , to which Epstein did not reply.

Reporter and Youtuber

Jean-François Gariépy made his first public appearance in 2015 in episode 157 of the Youtube podcast Drunken Peasants . In 2017 Gariépy joined the Warski Live YouTube channel as a co-host. Here Gariépy introduced topics such as ethno-nationalism with guests Richard B. Spencer , Millennial Woes , Andrew Anglin and Sargon of Akkad .

After a dispute with the co-moderator, Andy Warski, Gariépy founded his own YouTube channel "The Public Space" in April 2018. Gariépy describes his goal as a reporter and Youtuber as follows: “My goal is to produce good media that people enjoy. To me what I want to create is an experience in people's brain, that they are seeing something unique that they wouldn't have gotten elsewhere. "

The channel features identities and representatives of the alt-right such as Richard Spencer , David Duke , Mike Peinovich and Greg Johnson .

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriel Béland: YouTube payant pour l'extrême droite . May 25, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ Maybe It's Not YouTube's Algorithm That Radicalizes People (en) . In: Wired . "The most exteme category, the" Alt-Right, "refers to those who push strong anti-Semitic messages and advocate for the genetic superiority of white people, including [...] Jean-Francois Gariepy." 
  3. ^ Names of prominent far-right commentators spray-painted onto Plateau buildings . May 8, 2016 .: "Jean-François Gariépy, originally from Quebec, is an online white nationalist personality, who supports ideas of white superiority and white" ethnostates. ""
  4. ↑ Fallen Star: Jason Kessler went from a high of 'Unite the Right' to a pariah among other racists and in his hometown ( en ): "Jean-François Gariépy, a YouTube personality who promotes the idea of ​​ethnostates and has expressed antisemitic views . "
  5. ↑ a b Extremists Next Door. In: CBS News . December 3, 2020, pp. 17: 35-17: 47 , accessed on August 20, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c d e Kelly Weill: Alt-Right YouTuber Accused of Luring Autistic Teen in Pregnancy Plot . March 15, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  7. ↑ Next Generation Award . Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  8. ^ Jean-Francois Gariepy: Organization et modulation du réseau neuronal de la respiration chez la lamproie ( fr ). Université de Montreal , Montreal 2012 (Retrieved August 31, 2019).
  9. ↑ Jean-François Gariépy . Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  10. ↑ Jean-Francois Gariépy . Retrieved on May 1, 2020.
  11. ^ Colleen Flaherty: The Rise of "Quit Lit". Soon-to-be former academics are taking their grievances public . September 11, 2015. Accessed August 31, 2019.
  12. ↑ Front Page . Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  13. ^ A b Jean-François Gariépy: The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends . Élora Éditions, 2018, ISBN 978-1-72986-156-1 , p. 97, 101 .
  14. ↑ Peter Aldhous: Jeffrey Epstein's Links To Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought . August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  15. ^ Caroline Haskins: How YouTube Drives Shane Dawson and Other Creators to Conspiracy Theories . February 12, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  16. ↑ a b Jared Holt: White Nationalist YouTuber Says Jeffrey Epstein Once Gave Him $ 25,000 . December 12, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gariépy, Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Canadian biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984