Thursday, 25 August 2011

• American Renaissance

  I learn from the latest edition of American Renaissance magazine that Jared Taylor has somewhat changed his tune on the jewish question since the days when he declared that jews are ‘white’ because they ‘look white’. In the leading article; ‘Who are the Haters?’, Taylor out of all the many victims of the Southern Poverty Law Center of Morris Dees (better known as ‘Sleaze Dees’) choses to cite Kevin MacDonald; a well-known critic of jewry and quasi-racialist, as an example of the attacks on racialists and nationalists in academe.
  To quote Taylor:

  ‘Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach, who has written about Jewish influence and behaviour in ways that displease the SPLC.’ (1)

  Now Taylor could have said this same basic thing numerous different ways without implicitly recognising; as he has by his wording, that jews are an evolutionary group of their own and that there is such a thing as significant jewish influence which Taylor does not contradict. If he wanted to suggest that jewish influence was not significant he merely needed to add a ‘supposed’ or ‘theoretical’ before ‘jewish influence’ to achieve the desired effect.

  This is quite the departure from his previous position that ‘jews are white’ (2) (he presumably still holds to this as Zionist jews regularly contribute to Amren and hilariously claim to be ‘white’) (3) although he claims that he still greatly admires jews. (4) In spite of this to my knowledge Taylor has never claimed that Israel is a ‘white nation’ or even particularly mentioned it in his written work in spite of his correct opposition to Islam as a manifestation of Arab nationalism (and therefore a racial competitor to European racial nationalism). Indeed jews don’t even get a mention that I can find (it does lack an index so I have to resort to memory and my reading notes) in his latest work (or any other book of his that I have read): ‘White Identity’. (5)

  Taylor is probably resorting to the ‘big tent’ philosophy to gain as much widespread support as he can and he would be a fool if he did not realise that a big section of his support and readership are those who are also critical of jews. However Taylor himself does not appear to see anything wrong with jewry per se as he regards them as ‘white’ for reasons that escape me: this is in spite of the book that ‘converted’ him to racialism having a chapter demolishing the commonly-believed and fashionable claim; from Ashley Montagu (nee Israel Ehrenberg), that ‘race didn’t exist’ because jews ‘weren’t a race’. Baker demolishes both Montagu’s general argument (as Taylor recognised) as well as his specific argument that jews weren’t a racial/biological group (which Taylor doesn’t mention). (6)

  I am therefore rather sceptical of Taylor apparent change of heart in his defence of MacDonald and cannot help but see it is as a deliberately conceived stratagem to use the persecution of an academic foe of jewry to carry favour with those who support him conditionally in spite of his close association with Zionist jews like Michael Hart and Michael Levin (both of whom were among Taylor’s first academic recruits and have both been heavily praised by him for their respective works).

  After all: it is good business sense isn’t it?

  
  References

  (1) Jared Taylor, 2011, ‘Who are the Haters?’, American Renaissance, Vol. 22, No. 9, p. 4
  (2) Ian Jobling, 2006, ‘Among the Living Again’, American Renaissance, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 1; Jared Taylor (‘Thomas Jackson’), 2006, ‘The Black-Jewish Alliance’, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 10-11
  (3) For example in the August issue Robert Greenberg, 2011, ‘When Whites Lie to Blacks’, American Renaissance, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1-7 and Carl Horowitz, 2006, ‘Nigerian Fool’s Gold: Behind the ‘419’ Scams’, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1-6
  (4) Jared Taylor, 2011, ‘Reply to Dr. Greenberg’, American Renaissance, Vol. 22, No. 8, p. 7
  (5) Jared Taylor, 2011, ‘White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century’, 1st Edition, New Century Foundation: Arlington
  (6) John Baker, 1974, ‘Race’, 1st Edition, Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 232-247

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