Jared Taylor

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Jared Taylor
Born Samuel Jared Taylor
(1951-09-15) September 15, 1951
Kobe, Japan
Residence Oakton, Virginia
Alma mater Yale University
Paris Institute of Political Studies
Occupation Executive editor of American Renaissance, journalist
Children 2
Website jaredtaylor.org

Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white nationalist and a journalist who advocates what he describes as racial realism.[1] He is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a webzine often described as a white supremacist publication. Taylor is the president of the magazine's parent organization, New Century Foundation. He is a spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens,[2] and a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly. He is also a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based white nationalist think tank.[3]

Taylor, and many of the organizations he is associated with, are often described as promoting racist ideologies by, among others, civil rights groups, news media and academics studying racism in the US.[4][5][6][7]

Early life

Born to missionary parents in Japan,[8] Taylor lived there until he was 16 years old. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in philosophy, and did graduate coursework at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He has also worked in west Africa, and has traveled the area extensively.[8] In the 1980s, Taylor was West Coast editor of PC Magazine and a consultant before founding the American Renaissance periodical in 1990. He is fluent in French, Japanese and English.[9][10]

Books

He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983), in which he wrote that Japan was not an appropriate economic or social model for the United States, and criticized the Japanese for excessive preoccupation with their own uniqueness.

Taylor first turned to race in Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (1993),[11] in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and academic failure. He also edited The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998).[12]

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, The Color of Crime (1998, 2005), which observes that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and that whites commit violent crimes at higher rates than Asians.[13] He is the main contributor to a collection of articles from American Renaissance magazine called A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, (2003)[14] and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007).[15]

On May 3, 2011, The New Century Foundation released Jared Taylor's sequel to Paved With Good Intentions entitled White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century.

Views

Taylor has been described as a white nationalist or white supremacist by various sources.[16][17] Taylor has stated that he prefers to be called a "racial realist."[18]

Taylor believes that white people have their own racial interests, and that it is intellectually valid for them to protect these interests; he sees it as anomalous that non-Hispanic whites have allowed people of other races to organize themselves politically while not doing so themselves.[19] His journal American Renaissance was founded to provide such a voice for white interests.[20]

Taylor has summarized the basis for his views in the following terms:

Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society—language, religion, class, ideology—it is the most prominent and divisive. Race and racial conflict are at the heart of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century... Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse.[21]

He has questioned the capacity of blacks to live successfully in a civilized society. In an article on the chaos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Taylor wrote "when blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. And in a crisis, civilization disappears overnight."[22] Taylor believes in a general correlation between race and intelligence, where blacks are generally less intelligent than whites, and whites are generally less intelligent than East Asians, as expressed in the controversial book The Bell Curve. Taylor has said in an interview:

I think Asians are objectively superior to Whites by just about any measure that you can come up with in terms of what are the ingredients for a successful society. This doesn't mean that I want America to become Asian. I think every people has a right to be itself, and this becomes clear whether we're talking about Irian Jaya or Tibet, for that matter.[23]

In a speech delivered on May 28, 2005, to the British self-determination group, Sovereignty, Taylor said of his personal feelings to interracial marriages, "I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Fu Manchu or Whoopi Goldberg."[24]

Taylor has gone on to say that "people in general if left to themselves will generally sort themselves out by race," and has said that churches, schools, and neighborhoods are examples of this.

On immigration

Taylor has also given support to Hans-Hermann Hoppe's attempts to persuade libertarians to oppose immigration; he generally approves of Hoppe's work, although he sees the pursuit of a society with no government at all to be "the sort of experiment one might prefer to watch in a foreign country before attempting it oneself."[25]

On Judaism and anti-Semitism

The SPLC notes that Taylor is unusual among far-right activists in "his lack of anti-Semitism",[26] although at times American Renaissance has welcomed neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers as contributors and participants.[26]

On Donald Trump

Taylor is a supporter of Donald Trump for president, and has even recorded a robocall to support Trump, which was aimed at Iowa voters.[27]

Reception

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist — a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old."[26] A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert".[4]

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), has written that "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." They have also stated that "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy".[28]

His online magazine, American Renaissance, has been described as a white supremacist publication and a "forum for writers disparaging the abilities of minorities".[29]

Conservative author and former National Review contributor John Derbyshire, while not condoning all of Taylor's work, has said that Taylor is a "polite and good-natured man;" a "dissident" whose opinions "violate tribal taboos."[30]

David Horowitz, the editor of FrontPage Magazine, has said of Taylor that he is "a very intelligent and principled man", and "a very smart and gutsy individualist, but he is also a man who has surrendered to the multicultural miasma that has overtaken this nation and is busily building a movement devoted to white identity and community. We do not share these agendas. What I mean by “surrendering” is that Taylor has accepted the idea that the multiculturalists have won."[31]

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jamie Glazov (January 10, 2003). "White Nationalism: A Symposium". FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  2. ↑ Devine, Curt; Griffin, Drew; Bronstein, Scott (24 June 2015). "White supremacist group stands by racist ideology". CNN Investigations. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Doty, Roxanne Lynn (2009). The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism. University of Arizona Press. p. 61. ISBN 0816527717.
  4. 1 2 "Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'". Dennis Roddy. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 23, 2005.
  5. ↑ "Student Group Hosting Racist Speaker at MSU". Mediamouse. 2007-12-27. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  6. ↑ Holmes, Steven A. (18 December 1997). "Conservatives' Voices Enter Clinton's Dialogue on Race". The New York Times. p. 24.
  7. ↑ American Renaissance Southern Poverty Law Center
  8. 1 2 Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 87.
  9. ↑ Debryshire, John (December 23, 2010). "Noble Lies Are for Children: A Q&A With Jared Taylor". Taki's Magazine.
  10. ↑ YouTube
  11. ↑ Paved with Good Intentions, by Jared Taylor Archived April 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ The Real American Dilemma, edited by Jared Taylor (0965638308)
  13. ↑ "The Color of Crime". American Renaissance.
  14. ↑ A Race Against Time (0965638324)
  15. ↑ Francis, Sam. "Essential Writings on Race". American Renaissance.
  16. ↑ Peter Holley (2016-01-12). "Hear a white nationalist’s robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  17. ↑ Martin Gelin (2014-11-13). "White Flight". Slate.com. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  18. ↑ Atkins, Stephen (2011). Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism In Modern American History. ABC-Clio. p. 59. Retrieved 2016-02-08. Instead of classifying himself as a racist, Taylor maintains that he is a racialist who believes in race realism. Remarks by Taylor indicate his racist stance: 'We already know that Blacks have lower IQs than whites.'
  19. ↑ Swain & Nieli 2003, pp. 87–88.
  20. ↑ Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 88.
  21. ↑ About American Renaissance
  22. ↑ Jared Taylor (September 2005). "Africa in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina". American Renaissance News. Archived from the original on October 24, 2005.
  23. ↑ Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 102.
  24. ↑ Jared Taylor (June 2005). "DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY: A Speech by Jared Taylor". Sovereignty. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
  25. ↑ Jared Taylor (December 28, 2001). "Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)?". VDARE.com.
  26. 1 2 3 "Profile of Jared Taylor". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  27. ↑ "White Nationalists Continue to Support Trump Through Robocalls".
  28. ↑ Mark Potok; Heidi Beirich (Summer 2006). "Schism Threatens White Nationalist Group". Intelligence Report. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  29. ↑ Stephen E Atkins (13 September 2011). Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism In Modern American History. ABC-CLIO. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-59884-351-4.
  30. ↑ John Derbyshire (February 2, 2011). "The Futility of Dissidence". Taki's Magazine. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  31. ↑ David Horowitz (July 15, 2002). "David Horowitz Critiques AR". FrontPage Mag. Retrieved December 3, 2012 – via Amren.com.

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