Jared Taylor

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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. Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance, a journal that describes itself as "America's premiere publication of racial-realist thought". 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.

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. 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, 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.

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. 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.

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.”

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 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.

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

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."

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. 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".

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."

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.”

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.”

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."

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. Auster responded by saying that Taylor was allowing American Renaissance to be "a home to extreme anti-Semites."

Taylor refused to permit David Duke to attend the February 2008 American Renaissance conference.

Taylor himself sees Jews as full participants in the work of “race realism:” “It should be clear to anyone that Jews have, from the outset, been welcome and equal participants in our efforts.”

The Anti-Defamation League writes: "Taylor eschews anti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the “conscience of society,” Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who share his views on race and racial diversity."

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."

In response to charges of “white supremacy,” Taylor has written: “There is no scale on which racial differences can all be ranked so as to draw across-the-board conclusions about racial ‘superiority’ or ‘inferiority’ . . . . It is certainly true that in some important traits—intelligence, law-abidingness, sexual restraint, academic performance, resistance to disease—whites can be considered ‘superior’ to blacks. At the same time, in exactly these same traits, North Asians appear to be ‘superior’ to whites.”

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."

Cancellation of 2010 American Renaissance Conference

In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, Taylor's biennial conference was cancelled. Immediately after the cancellation of the conference, Taylor, in a Stormfront radio interview with former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Don Black (founder of the neo-nazi website Stormfront) , described the forced cancellation as an outrage and an attack on the principle of free speech.

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.

See also

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

External links

• Jared Taylor Jared Taylor's personal website
• American Renaissance Jared Taylor's publication
• (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eKoFKP9OT4&feature=channel_page Jared Taylor vs. Tim Wise debate]
• New Century Foundation Jared Taylor's New Century Foundation
• 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 League website
• Interview with Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance