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Taylor first turned to race in ''Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America'' (1993) ISBN 0-9656383-4-0,<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/paved_with_good.html Paved with Good Intentions, by Jared Taylor<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and school failure. He also edited ''The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998) ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.''<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/real_american_dilemma.html The Real American Dilemma, edited by Jared Taylor (0965638308)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Taylor first turned to race in ''Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America'' (1993) ISBN 0-9656383-4-0,<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/paved_with_good.html Paved with Good Intentions, by Jared Taylor<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and school failure. He also edited ''The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998) ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.''<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/real_american_dilemma.html The Real American Dilemma, edited by Jared Taylor (0965638308)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, ''The Color of Crime'' (1998, 2005), coauthored by [[Ian Jobling]], which cites government statistics showing that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and Asians at lower rates than whites.<ref>http://www.amren.com/newstore/cart.php?page=color_of_crime</ref> 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<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/race_against_time.html A Race Against Time (0965638324)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and editor of a collection of essays by the late [[Samuel Francis]] entitled ''Essential Writings on Race,'' (2007) ISBN 978-0-9656383-7-1.<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/essential_writings.html Essential Writings on Race, by Sam Francis<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, ''The Color of Crime'' (1998, 2005), which cites government statistics showing that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and Asians at lower rates than whites.<ref>http://www.amren.com/newstore/cart.php?page=color_of_crime</ref> 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<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/race_against_time.html A Race Against Time (0965638324)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and editor of a collection of essays by the late [[Samuel Francis]] entitled ''Essential Writings on Race,'' (2007) ISBN 978-0-9656383-7-1.<ref>[http://www.amren.com/store/essential_writings.html Essential Writings on Race, by Sam Francis<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==Views==
==Views==
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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 an exclusively 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. He also noted that this was an "extreme" conclusion.<ref>[http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/05/what_we_owe_our.php American Renaissance News: What We Owe Our People<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Taylor has also given support to [[Hans Hoppe]]'s attempts to persuade [[libertarian]]s 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".<ref>[http://www.vdare.com/taylor/hoppe.htm VDARE.com: 12/28/01 - Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)? by Jared Taylor<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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 an exclusively 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. He also noted that this was an "extreme" conclusion.<ref>[http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/05/what_we_owe_our.php American Renaissance News: What We Owe Our People<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Taylor has also given support to [[Hans Hoppe]]'s attempts to persuade [[libertarian]]s 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".<ref>[http://www.vdare.com/taylor/hoppe.htm VDARE.com: 12/28/01 - Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)? by Jared Taylor<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Taylor has argued that American support for [[Israel]] is the main reason for the [[9-11]] terrorist attacks on [[New York City]]. Taylor wrote "..they kill us because we support and finance a country they see as having been illegitimately carved out of the very flesh of their Islamic kinsmen."<ref>[http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/08/17404.html Jared Taylor: ''Teaching more millions to hate us'', Pravda.ru, 2001-10-08]</ref>


In a speech delivered on 28 May 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]]."<ref>[http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/articles/demog3.html Demographic Change In White Western European World Uk Usa<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
In a speech delivered on 28 May 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]]."<ref>[http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/articles/demog3.html Demographic Change In White Western European World Uk Usa<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Views on the Holocaust==

In April 2007, a correspondent asked Taylor, "the myth of the holocaust is a millstone around the neck of any nascent white nationalist movement.<ref>http://whiteamerica.us/index.php/news/news/another_eagle_eyed_white_nationalist_finds_me_out/</ref> 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 [[paleoconservative]] [[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]]''.<ref>http://whiteamerica.us/index.php/news/news/another_eagle_eyed_white_nationalist_finds_me_out/</ref>


==Praise and criticism==
==Praise and criticism==
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[[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."<ref>[http://www.davidduke.com/?p=496 The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD » Thoughts on the Amren Convention<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
[[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."<ref>[http://www.davidduke.com/?p=496 The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD » Thoughts on the Amren Convention<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Former associates of Taylor such as former American Renaissance webmaster [[Ian Jobling]] and well-known [[paleoconservative]] commentator [[Lawrence Auster]] (who spoke at the first American Renaissance conference in 1994) have spoken out against Taylor's refusal to condemn anti-semitism. At the February, 2006 American Renaissance conference, many of the attendees applauded enthusiastically when a speaker said that [[Israel]] would not survive its first 100 years. In addition to this, David Duke provoked a Jewish participant into walking out of the conference.<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1097 SPLCenter.org: Irreconcilable Differences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Auster responded by saying that Taylor was allowing American Renaissance to be "a home to extreme anti-Semites."<ref>[http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/005449.html Jared Taylor’s refusal to condemn anti-Semitism<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


[[Mark Potok]], editor of 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 [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]]."<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=644&printable=1 SPLCenter.org: Irreconcilable Differences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
[[Mark Potok]], editor of 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 [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]]."<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=644&printable=1 SPLCenter.org: Irreconcilable Differences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Cancellation of 2010 American Renaissance conference==

In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, Taylor's biennial conference was cancelled.
<ref>http://vdare.com/hart/100216_anarcho_tyranny.htm</ref>
Immediately after the cancellation of the conference, Taylor, in a Stormfront radio interview with former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Don Black<ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X2WD3EnAVvEC&pg=PA40&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false</ref> (founder of the neo-nazi website Stormfront) <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/600876.stm</ref>, described the forced cancellation as an outrage against the right to free speech. <ref>http://www.stormfront.org/audio/Derek_Black_Show_02-16-2010.mp3</ref>

The palaeoconservative racialist writer Lawrence Auster said that Taylor's appearance on Stormfront radio was part of a long-standing pattern of Taylor's in consorting with anti-semites. Auster described Taylor's Stormfront appearance as 'morally obtuse.'<ref>http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/015720.html#feb19</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 01:56, 25 February 2010

For the rugby league team, see Jared Taylor (rugby league).
Samuel Jared Taylor
Born1951
Japan
Occupation(s)Journalist, Executive editor

Samuel Jared Taylor (born 1951) of Oakton, Virginia, is an American journalist and an advocate of what he describes as racial realist explanations for the sociological and economic problems associated with non-whites, particularly blacks, in Western countries.[1] Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance, a journal that describes itself as "America's premiere publication of racial-realist thought".[2] He is the president of the parent organization, New Century Foundation, and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Georgia-based think tank. He is a former member of the advisory board of Occidental Quarterly. Taylor's views have drawn accusations of racism from some activist organizations and opinion columnists.[3][4][5]

Early life

Born to missionary parents in Japan, Taylor lived in that country until he was 16 years old. His parents were conventional liberals, and so was he until the age of 30.[6] 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.

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,[7] in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and school failure. He also edited The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998) ISBN 0-9656383-0-8.[8]

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, The Color of Crime (1998, 2005), which cites government statistics showing that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and Asians at lower rates than whites.[9] 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[10] and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007) ISBN 978-0-9656383-7-1.[11]

Views

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.”[12]

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."[13] Taylor believes in the theory of 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 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.[14]

Taylor espouses a doctrine of "race realism". He has described himself as a "racialist."[15]

Taylor has made remarks on the growing number of non-whites in Europe, America and Australia. 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 [in] 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."[16]

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 an exclusively 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. He also noted that this was an "extreme" conclusion.[17] Taylor has also given support to Hans 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".[18]

In a speech delivered on 28 May 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."[19]

Praise and criticism

Conservative writer and activist David Horowitz makes it clear that he disagrees with Taylor's philosophy, which he calls a “surrender to a multicultural miasma” but says that Taylor is “a very smart and gutsy individualist” and “a very intelligent and principled man.”[20]

Paul Gottfried, professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College, also disagrees with what he calls “the value of white nationalism,” but writes: “In comparison to the generally shabby lot of journalists I have known, Jared is a true paragon of tolerance.” He also notes what he calls Taylor’s “classical liberal sense of fair play.”[21]

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."[22]

Mark Potok, editor of 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."[23]

Bibliography

  • Taylor, Jared (1983). Shadows of the Rising Sun: a critical view of the "Japanese miracle". New York: Morrow. ISBN 0688024556.
  • Taylor, Jared (1984). Shado obu Japan (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kobunsha. ISBN 9784334960063. {{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 0881848662.
  • Taylor, Jared (1998). The real American dilemma: race, immigration, and the future of America. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0965638308.
  • Taylor, Jared (2003). A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0965638324.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Jamie Glazov (January 10, 2003). "White Nationalism: A Symposium" (HTML). FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  2. ^ About American Renaissance
  3. ^ Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of 'Expert'
  4. ^ Student Group Hosting Racist Speaker at MSU
  5. ^ Conservatives' Voices Enter Clinton's Dialogue on Race
  6. ^ American Renaissance
  7. ^ Paved with Good Intentions, by Jared Taylor
  8. ^ The Real American Dilemma, edited by Jared Taylor (0965638308)
  9. ^ http://www.amren.com/newstore/cart.php?page=color_of_crime
  10. ^ A Race Against Time (0965638324)
  11. ^ Essential Writings on Race, by Sam Francis
  12. ^ [1]
  13. ^ American Renaissance News: Africa in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina
  14. ^ Carol Miller Swain & Russell Nieli, Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 102
  15. ^ End of Racism?
  16. ^ American Renaissance News
  17. ^ American Renaissance News: What We Owe Our People
  18. ^ VDARE.com: 12/28/01 - Democracy vs. Freedom (And The Nation-State)? by Jared Taylor
  19. ^ Demographic Change In White Western European World Uk Usa
  20. ^ By Race and Design
  21. ^ Paul Gottfried Replies to His Critics
  22. ^ The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD » Thoughts on the Amren Convention
  23. ^ SPLCenter.org: Irreconcilable Differences

See also

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