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Jared Taylor
Born	Samuel Jared Taylor 1951 Japan
Alma mater	Yale University, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Occupation(s)	Executive editor, journalist
Website	www.jaredtaylor.org

Samuel Jared Taylor (born 1951) is an American journalist and an advocate of what he describes as "racial realism" . He is a strong critic of what he perceives to be the negative influence of African Americans in the US, saying that when "blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears".

Taylor is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a webzine that describes itself as "America's premiere publication of racial-realist thought". Sources unaffiliated with the magazine have described it as a white supremacist journal which serves as a "forum for writers disparaging the abilities of minorities", a publication of an array of pseudo-scientific studies, and a venue for "proponents of eugenics and anti-black racists".

Taylor strongly opposes interracial marriage, saying that it is a phenomenon that could lead to white 'extinction'. He has debated the issue with the former National Review writer John Derbyshire, criticizing Derbyshire's marriage to a Chinese women, as well as his parentage of two biracial children. In the article Taylor clearly stated that he was “not fine with miscegenation.”

Taylor is opposed to all non-white immigration into Western societies. In January 2005, Taylor reviewed a book by Frank Salter, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, and agreed with Salter that, from a genetic point of view, an Englishman would be better off resisting the immigration of two hypothetical Bantu immigrants, than he would be to rescue one of his own children from drowning.

While Taylor has questioned the extent of the Holocaust, he has rejected accusations of anti-semitism. However, when publicly asked by an English supporter for his views on the "Jewish question", Taylor agreed that the 'aggregate impact' of Jews on Western society had been overwhelmingly negative, but that he generally avoids the issue because his organization, American Renaissance, cannot "afford to be a crank on more than one topic at a time".

Taylor is the president of the magazine's parent organization, New Century Foundation, an organization which according to the Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism in Modern American History has had "some of the most notorious white supremacists in the United States" on its board. He is a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Georgia-based think tank. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly. 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. He rejects these accusations himself, saying that his views are reasonable and moderate.

Early life

Born to missionary parents in Japan, Taylor lived there until he was 16 years old. His parents were conventional liberals, and so was he until the age of 30. 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. Taylor speaks fluent English, Japanese and French. In the 1980s, Taylor was West Coast editor of PC Magazine and a consultant before founding the American Renaissance periodical in 1990. Taylor has taught Japanese to summer school students at Harvard University.

Books

He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983) ISBN 0-688-02455-6, 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) ISBN 0-9656383-4-0, 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) ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, The Color of Crime (1998, 2005), which argues that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and that whites commit violent crimes at higher rates than Asians. 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) ISBN 0-9656383-2-4 and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007) ISBN 978-0-9656383-7-1.

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 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. His journal American Renaissance was founded to provide such a voice for so-called "white interests."

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.

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." 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.

Taylor has made derogatory remarks on the growing number of non-whites in Europe, America and Australia.

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".

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." 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.

Holocaust denial

In April 2007, a correspondent asked Taylor, "the myth of the holocaust is a millstone around the neck of any nascent white nationalist movement. Where do you stand on this? Did the Nazis genocidally wipe out 6 million jews or did they not?" Taylor's one line reply: "I’m not an expert on the subject, and it is not one into which I have looked." Subsequent to this, the late paleoconservative author Lawrence Auster learned of Taylor's statement on the issue and an Internet debate ensued. Taylor further posted on the Internet that he did not have an opinion on the six million figure, in the same way that he did not know how many people died in the Armenian massacres or how many American soldiers died during World War II. Auster (who has spoken at an American Renaissance conference sponsored by Taylor) and his supporters argued that such a stance was akin to Holocaust denial, and that this was not surprising given Taylor's close and longstanding friendship with Mark Weber, editor of the Holocaust-denial publication Journal of Historical Review and former editor of the neo-Nazi publication National Vanguard.

Relationship with a Japanese woman

In a speech delivered on 28 May 2005, to a British far right group, Taylor made clear his feelings on the offspring of interracial marriages when he said "I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg."

However, on March 8, 2007, Taylor was asked by a Canadian journalist whether he had ever been involved in an interracial relationship. Peter Duffy of the Halifax Chronicle Herald described Taylor's reaction: "That was the only time I saw you rattled; when that TV reporter asked you whether you’d ever had gone out with a person of colour, you were rattled." Taylor said he was merely "annoyed", because he felt that questions about his personal life were beyond the pale. However, several months later in June 2007, Taylor had to defend against allegations of an affair with Japanese-American corporate lawyer Yumi Akisada (b. 1969) who was based in Yokohama, at the time. The relationship was alleged to have begun in 1999, when they were introduced by a mutual friend during one of Taylor's frequent visits to Japan.

Taylor has praised the "high average level of attractiveness" of Japanese women, saying few resemble the "waddling colossi one finds among the American lower classes of all races."

Reception

Taylor's views have been described as racist by many academics, political commentators, journalists, and various other organizations. Taylor himself rejects any accusation of racism; he claims that his views are reasonable and moderate, and observes that they were considered normal by most key figures in American history.

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." A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert"

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".

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."

David Horowitz, the conservative editor of FrontPage Magazine, has called Taylor "a very smart and gutsy individualist" and "a very intelligent and principled man."

Writing in the Nashville Scene, Jonathan Meador described Taylor as "genteel, erudite, and soft-spoken" with "the charisma of someone half his age."

Bibliography

• Taylor, Jared (1983). Shadows of the Rising Sun: a Critical View of the "Japanese miracle". New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-02455-6.
• Taylor, Jared (1984). Shado obu Japan (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kobunsha. ISBN 978-4-334-96006-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Taylor, Jared (1992). Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-88184-866-2.
• Taylor, Jared (1998). The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.
• McDaniel, George (ed.) (2003). A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-2-4. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help) foreword by Jared Taylor
• Taylor, Jared (2011). White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-9-1.

See also

• American Renaissance (magazine)
• Racialism (Racial categorization)
• Racial realism
• Racial segregation in the United States
• Scientific racism
• White nationalism

Footnotes

1. Jamie Glazov (January 10, 2003). "White Nationalism: A Symposium". FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
2. ^ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/jared-taylor
3. About American Renaissance
4. ^
6. http://www.vdare.com/articles/race-purists-are-they-slightly-nuts-jared-taylor-responds-to-john-derbyshire
7. http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007667.html
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEsVrVbXKg
9. "Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'. Dennis Roddy. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 23, 2005.
10. Student Group Hosting Racist Speaker at MSU
11. Conservatives' Voices Enter Clinton's Dialogue on Race
12. ^ Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 87.
13. Paved with Good Intentions, by Jared Taylor
14. The Real American Dilemma, edited by Jared Taylor (0965638308)
15. http://www.amren.com/newstore/cart.php?page=color_of_crime
16. A Race Against Time (0965638324)
17. Essential Writings on Race, by Sam Francis
18. Swain & Nieli 2003, pp. 87–88.
19. Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 88.
20. About American Renaissance
21. American Renaissance News: Africa in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina
22. Swain & Nieli 2003, p. 102.
23. VDARE.com: 12/28/01 - Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)? by Jared Taylor
24. Demographic Change In White Western European World Uk Usa
25. http://inverted-world.com/index.php/news/news/another_eagle_eyed_white_nationalist_finds_me_out/
26. http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/articles/demog3.html
27. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/03/on_the_menu_opp.php#
28. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/01/in_praise_of_ho.php
29. "Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'". Dennis Roddy. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 23, 2005.
30. Student Group Hosting Racist Speaker at MSU
31. Conservatives' Voices Enter Clinton's Dialogue on Race
32. Dennis Roddy "Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) Sunday, January 23, 2005
33. Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich (Summer 2006). "Schism Threatens White Nationalist Group". Intelligence Report. Retrieved July 20, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
34. John Derbyshire (February 2, 2011). "The Futility of Dissidence". Taki's Magazine. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
35. David Horowitz (July 15, 2002). "David Horowitz Critiques AR". FrontPage Mag. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
36. Jonathan Meador (March 29, 2012). "The Changing Guard of White Separatism Convenes at a Tennessee State Park". Nashville Scene. Retrieved December 3, 2012.

References

• Swain, Carol M.; Nieli, Russell, eds. (2003). Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81673-4. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• Jared Taylor Jared Taylor's personal website
• American Renaissance The website of American Renaissance

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