Jared Taylor

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Jared Taylor
Jared Taylor, 2008
Born	Samuel Jared Taylor (1951-09-15) September 15, 1951 Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Residence	Oakton, Virginia, U.S.
Education	Yale University (B.A. in philosophy) Paris Institute of Political Studies (M.A. in international economics)
Occupation	Editor of American Renaissance
Spouse(s)	Evelyn Rich
Children	2 daughters
Website	American Renaissance

Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American author and journalist. He is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a self-described race-realist magazine. Taylor is also the president of American Renaissance's parent organization, New Century Foundation, through which many of his books have been published. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based think tank. He is also a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Early life and education

Taylor was born on September 15, 1951, to Christian missionary parents in Kobe, Japan. He lived in Japan until he was 16 years old and attended Japanese public school up to the age of 12, becoming fluent in Japanese in the process.

He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in philosophy. He received an MA in international economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1978.

Career

Taylor worked as an international lending officer for the Manufacturers Hanover Corporation from 1978 to 1981, and as West Coast editor of PC Magazine from 1983 to 1988. He also worked in West Africa, and has traveled the area extensively. Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese and English.

In 1983 he authored the book Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle, 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.

In 1990 he founded and published the first issue of American Renaissance, originally a monthly print magazine and now an online news and commentary outlet which describes itself as a "race-realist, white advocacy organization".

In 1994, in light of his authorship of Paved With Good Intentions in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and academic failure, he was called by the defense team in a Fort Worth, Texas black-on-black murder trial, to give expert testimony with regard to the race-related aspects of the case. Prior to testifying in the trial he called young black men "the most dangerous people in America" and added "This must be taken into consideration in judging whether or not it was realistic for [the defendant] to think this was a kill-or-be-killed situation."

Views

Race

Taylor describes himself as an advocate for white interests. He states that his journal, American Renaissance, was founded to provide such a voice for white interests, and argues that its work is analogous to other interest groups that advocate for ethnic or racial groups. Writing in that journal in 2005, he stated, "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears."

Taylor is a proponent of voluntary racial segregation and interested in scientific research on racial differences, including differences in intelligence among racial groups. Taylor argues that on average, Blacks are less intelligent than Hispanics, Hispanics less intelligent than whites, and whites less intelligent than East Asians, but has an attachment to whites regardless of their intelligence, explaining that "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 been described as a white nationalist, white supremacist, and racist by civil rights groups, news media, academics studying racism in the US, and others. Taylor has "strenuously rejected" the charges of being a racist, and maintains that he is instead a "racialist who believes in race-realism". He has also said he is not a white supremacist, describing himself as a "white advocate", and contends that his views on nationality and race are "moderate, commonsensical, and fully consistent with the views of most of the great statesmen and presidents of America's past".

Taylor supports immigration policies that would favor white immigrants over other groups. Taylor is noted as saying, "Whites deserve a homeland," and when questioned about the US immigration laws passed in 1965, under the Hart-Celler Act, said that "Whites are making a terrible mistake by setting in motion forces that will reduce them to a minority."

Judaism and anti-Semitism

The Southern Poverty Law Center notes that Taylor is unusual among the radical right in "his lack of anti-Semitism." The Jewish Daily Forward reported that Taylor "has been trying to de-Nazify the movement and draw the white nationalist circle wider to include Jews of European descent. But to many on the far right, taking the Jew-hatred out of white nationalism is like taking the Christ out of Christmas — a sacrilege."

Donald Trump

Taylor supported Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and recorded robocalls to support Trump before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.

Taylor described Trump's inauguration as "a sign of rising white consciousness". In a May 2017 CNN interview with Sara Sidner, Taylor said that he supported Donald Trump's election as President "because the effects of his policy would be to reduce the dispossession of Whites, that is, to slow the process whereby Whites become the minority in the United States."

A spokesperson told CNN that the candidate "disavows all Super PACs offering their support and continues to do so." Donald Trump, when asked about the robocalls in an interview with CNN, responded "I would disavow that, but I will tell you people are extremely angry.”

Censorship and Deplatforming

On December 18, 2017, both his personal account and the account for American Renaissance were suspended by Twitter. In response to an appeal, Twitter confirmed the ban and accused them of being "affiliated with a violent extremist group." At the time, his account had 41,000 followers. American Renaissance is currently involved in litigation against the company, pursuing the charge that Twitter falsely presented itself as a platform which respected free speech, while in reality it reserved the right to ban anyone for any reason.

In February 2019 four American Renaissance titles written or edited by Taylor were removed from Amazon listings, along with 17 titles from Counter-Currents including The White Nationalist Manifesto. American Renaissance was informed that their titles' "subject matter" was "in violation of our content guidelines," but was given no further information on the reasoning for the move. Counter-Currents was given similar notifications. Both Johnson and American Renaissance consider the move to be political censorship.

In 2016 Taylor was banned from the UK by Prime Minister Theresa May, who called his views repugnant and informed him of the ban in a letter.

On 29 March 2019 while traveling through Zürich Jared Taylor learned that he had been banned from the Schengen zone by the Polish government until September of 2021. This forced him to cancel his planned speaking engagement at the identitarian Scandza Forum in Stockholm and the Awakening Conference, a similar event in Turku, Finland. No reason was given for the ban at the time, and he found that officials at the Polish embassy in the US had no information on the reasoning behind the move either, although Taylor notes that in connection with a speaking engagement in Poland earlier the same year he was told by Polish police that he was spreading a "totalitarian ideology." The ban had been issued in December of 2018 but he had been given no notice or explanation of the move at that point.

On 29 June 2020 the YouTube channels for American Renaissance's podcasts and videos were removed from YouTube. American Renaissance reported 135,000 video subscribers and 20,000 podcast subscribers at the time of the banning. Channels belonging to dissident commentators Richard B. Spencer, David Duke, and Stefan Molyneux were removed at the same time. Forbes described the move as part of a crackdown by social media companies on "misinformation" and "hate speech" in response to pressure in connection with demonstrations after the death of George Floyd and subsequent riots, calling all four banned individuals "white supremacists."

Bibliography

• foreword by Jared Taylor

References

Notes

External links

• American Renaissance The website of American Renaissance