In Brief: Graham Hancock Denounces White Supremacy After Nazis Embrace Him

The Express reported today that Graham Hancock has denounced white supremacy as "a stupid cult" after a Neo-Nazi was seen on video explaining the value of Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse as a white nationalist recruitment tool. According to the Express, Neo-Nazi Harold Lloyd said that Hancock's work was "like listening to Third Reich archaeology, without the baggage" and could introduce viewers to the idea that indigenous people were unable to develop high culture absent outside help, without the explicit appeals to racism found in Nazism. "It's actually a good way of introducing people to white superiority.... It's a nice little intro to Racialism," Lloyd said.

Hancock gave an interview to the Express where he defended some of the claims Neo-Nazis most enjoy, especially the claim that survivors of the lost civilization who seeded culture in the Americas were white-skinned. He insisted, however, that he does not deny that indigenous people built their own works--just 48 hours after the new series of Ancient Apocalypse showed Hancock attributing the statues of Easter Island, the rongorongo writing system, and most Inca architecture to an Ice Age lost civilization. "I do not dismiss or undervalue indigenous cultures," Hancock said before adding that it is personally hurtful to him that his grandchildren are reading online that he advocates racist ideas.