Jared Taylor - Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Alabamawhiteman (talk | contribs) at 17:53, 27 July 2007. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 17:53, 27 July 2007 by Alabamawhiteman (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

File:Jared Taylor.jpg

Jared Taylor

Samuel Jared Taylor (b. 1951) of Oakton, Virginia, is an United States journalist and an advocate of racialist theories to explain the sociological and economic problems associated with non-whites, particularly blacks, in Western countries. Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance, a journal that addresses issues of race, immigration and their impact on societies in which white people co-exist with other groups of people. He is the president of the parent organization, New Century Foundation, and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. He is a former member of the advisory board of Occidental Quarterly.

Born to missionary parents in Japan, Taylor lived in that country until he was 16 years old. He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in Philosophy, and graduated from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1978 with a MA in International economics. 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.

In mid 2007, Taylor was beleaguered by allegations of infidelity after evidence surfaced of his involvement in an eight-year long affair with a Japanese lawyer.

Works and views

He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983), which among other things argues the distinctiveness of the Japanese as a race as well as a culture; Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in America (1993), which hypothesizes that multiracialism in the United States is the cause of many of todays social ills; The Tyranny of the New and other Essays (1992); and The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America (1998). Taylor contributed to the New Century Foundation publication The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Violence in America (1998, 2005), which calls African Americans "the most dangerous, crime-prone group in America" and asserts that black people and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites or Asians. He contributed to A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and National Review.

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Violence in America (1998, 2005), which calls African Americans "the most dangerous, crime-prone group in America" and asserts that black people and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites or Asians. He contributed to A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and National Review.

Taylor says he is not a white supremacist, whom he defines as one who wishes to rule over others. He claims to be a "yellow supremacist" because he has theorized that Asian people are the most advanced humans (in evolutionary terms), followed by white people and those of African descent.

Taylor 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 insists that he espouses a doctrine of race realism. In a 2003 interview with Phil Donahue, Taylor claimed that Central Americans are organizing en masse and invading the rest of North America. He has described himself as a "racialist" and a "white separatist".

Taylor has often expressed great personal distaste over the presence of non-whites in Europe and America. On the greater number of non-whites in Holland compared with Denmark, Taylor has commented; "Europeans travel a lot within Europe, and they see dark-skinned bums sleeping on the streets on Rotterdam. In Denmark they don’t see dark-skinned bums sleeping on the streets, and they are not so stupid as to be unable to understand that immigration has something to do with this."

Praise and criticism

David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has described Taylor as a "a man of immense ability and the courage commensurate and necessary for telling the long-suppressed truths of race."

In his July 15, 2002 blog entry, neo-conservative writer David Horowitz defended his decision to run an article from Taylor's American Renaissance magazine on his own website; praising Taylor as "a very smart and gutsy individualist" and "a very intelligent and principled man." He wrote: "There are many who would call Jared Taylor and his American Renaissance movement 'racist.' If the term is modified to 'racialist,' there is truth in the charge. But Taylor and his Renaissance movement are no more racist in this sense than Reverend Jesse Jackson and the NAACP." However, Horowitz criticized Taylor in his August 27, 2002 commentary; in which he refers to Taylor as advocating "Euro-racialism" which is "a fringe prejudice among conservatives", and that such racialism "would mean the death of the conservative movement."

Other critics have described Taylor as a racist and an advocate of white supremacy, and have accused him of sympathy to Holocaust denial. Mark Potok, editor of Intelligence Report said "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." Potok pointed to Taylor's close association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, which he labels as racist. Potok describes The Color of Crime as "a booklet that tries to use crime statistics so as to 'prove' that blacks are far more criminally prone than whites."

Holocaust Denial

In April 2007, an American Renaissance supporter 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 well-known Jewish palaeoconservative Lawrence Auster learned of Taylor's prevarication 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.

American Renaissance posted a response on the matter, with Taylor stating that doubting the officially accepted magnitude of the Holocaust did not necessarily equate to Holocaust denial.

Incident in Halifax, Canada

Taylor was prevented from delivering a speech on January 16, 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He had expected to give his speech to a group of journalists and others at the Lord Nelson Hotel, after his invitation to participate in a debate over race relations at Dalhousie University was retracted when the university further investigated Taylors works. After destroying Taylor's pamphlets and confronting him, a small crowd of demonstrators pushed Taylor out of the hotel room. Further violence against Taylor was averted due to the intervention of Jon Goldberg, director of the Atlantic Jewish Council in Halifax.

Shortly after the incident, members of the white nationalist internet forum Stormfront posted photos and personal information about several of the protesters. Within days, the protesters were repeatedly harassed and threatened for their participation in the removal of Taylor from the hotel. Taylor returned to Halifax on March 6, 2007 to engage in a debate with St. Mary's University professor Peter March on the CJCH radio station. The on-campus debate was again cancelled; this time due to alleged security concerns and rumors of violent protest. Following the cancellation, the debate was moved to an undisclosed location and recorded for the American Renaissance website.

Allegations of interracial affair

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."

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 July 2007, Taylor denied allegations of an affair with Yokohama based Japanese-American corporate lawyer Yumi Akisada (b. 1969). Taylor was alleged to have met Ms Akisada during a business trip to Japan in 1999.

Footnotes

External links

American Renaissance Jared Taylor's website
The Color of Crime by Taylor's New Century Foundation
The Myth of Diversity an article by Taylor
Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of "Expert". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Dennis Roddy
Profile on the Anti-Defamation Leage website

Categories: