Steve Sailer
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| Steve Sailer | |
| Born | December 20, 1958 |
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| Alma mater | UCLA, Rice University |
| Religious beliefs | Catholic |
| Website isteve.blogspot.com |
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Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an American journalist and movie critic for The American Conservative, ex-correspondent for UPI, and VDARE.com columnist. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports. He is perhaps best known online as a blogger.
Sailer grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA and Rice University. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as a columnist for the conservative magazine National Review.
Sailer, along with Charles Murray and John McGinnis, was described as an "evolutionary conservative" in a 1999 National Review cover story by John O'Sullivan.[1]
In 1999 Sailer created the Human Biodiversity Institute, an "educational and scientific not-for-profit", which runs a private discussion group for "a mix of experts from across the scientific, intellectual, and political spectrums."[citation needed]
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[edit] General standpoints
[edit] Race
Sailer argues that there needs to be more discussion of "racial reality;"[2] for example, his contention that a supposed "racial IQ gap" is related to a report that people of African origin have a lower distribution of brain gene variants that other populations have[3] and tend to have inferior capacities for judgment and need "stricter moral guidance from society."[4][5]
[edit] Immigration
Sailer opposes "unskilled" immigration, especially from Mexico. He argues that a Mexican oligarchy knowingly exports illegal immigrants into the U.S. in order to extend its sphere of influence into the country.[6] He refers to those in power in Latin America as "Latin America's corrupt white elites",[7] mainly because caste in Latin America roughly follows skin color,[8] with the lightest-skinned being at the top of the social and economic structure.[9]
[edit] Controversy
Sailer's article on Hurricane Katrina was followed by accusations of racism, with the highest profile critic being John Podhoretz, who posted a response on the National Review Online blog.[10]
The progressive media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a report that criticized New York Times columnist David Brooks for citing Sailer's demographic analysis of the 2004 election while failing to acknowledge Sailer as "a leading promoter of racist pseudoscience".[11] Similarly, Media Matters for America took NBC to task for citing Sailer as a conservative movie critic while omitting any mention of his racial and political beliefs.[12]
Sailer's view's on race in Mexico have been described by Rodolfo Acuña, a Chicano Studies professor, as "a pretext and a negative justification for discriminating against US Latinos in the context of US history. Listing Latinos as non-white also gives Sailer and others the opportunity to divide Latinos into races, thus weakening the group by setting up a scenario where lighter-skinned Mexicans are accepted as Latinos or Hispanics and darker-skinned Latinos are relegated to an underclass."[13]
[edit] Selected bibliography
- "Cousin Marriage Conundrum: "The ancient practice discourages democratic nation-building,"[14]
- "The Genetic Revolution," "America's role in the twenty-first century may depend on acknowledging and understanding human genetic diversity."[15]
- "Is Love Colorblind?",[16] "While interracial marriage is increasingly accepted by whites, a surprising number of Asian men and black women are bitterly opposed. Why?" and its follow-up article "2000 Census Shows Interracial Marriage Gender Gaps Remain Large"[17]
- "Does Abortion Prevent Crime?", Slate, August 1999. Dialogue between Sailer and University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt on Levitt's legalized abortion and crime effect.
- "How Jackie Robinson Desegregated America",[18] "Perhaps the least-learned lesson of the saga of Jackie Robinson is that competition can transform self-interest into an engine for racial fairness."
- Americans First, by Steve Sailer,[19] Posits his theory, called "citizenism," that national identity should take priority over race.
- ""Affordable Family Formation"—The Neglected Key To GOP's Future,"[20]
- "The Dirt Gap: The Fundamental Cause of Red vs. Blue States,"[21]
- "The GOP’s Third Electoral Secret: Marriage, Fertility...And Cheap Housing,"[22]
- "Democrats Recoil From GOP’s Electoral Secret: Marriage Plus Children,"[23]
- "Baby Gap: How Birthrates Color the Electoral Map,"[24]
- "Fragmented Future",[25]
- "What's Wrong With the Democrats?",[26]
- "Hollywood's Skin Deep Leftism",[27]
- "We're Different. Get Over It.",[28]
- "Whites, not Latinos, won it for GOP",[29]
- "Revolutionary Nepotism,"[30] "Nepotism and dynasticism are on the rebound in politics, both abroad and at home. " Review of Adam Bellow's In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History.
- "How will Annika Sorenstam perform?"[31] Sailer analyzed the recent performances of Annika Sörenstam on the LPGA Tour leading up to her 2003 appearance in Bank of America Colonial, a tournament on the men's PGA Tour. Sailer predicted that she would most likely miss the cut by four strokes, which she did.
- "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'",[32]
- A Miracle Happens Here: Darwin's Enemies on the Right,[33]
- The Coming War Over Genes: Darwin's Enemies on the Left,[34]
- The Left Doesn’t Like Darwin Either,[35]
[edit] References
- ^ Types of Right - National Review
- ^ Steve Sailer. Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare. VDARE, September 3, 2005
- ^ See, for example, "More on the New Orleans Nightmare:Why We Have to Talk About Racial Reality Even if John Podhoretz Says We Can’t," VDARE, September 2005. "What we can say for sure is that Darwinian logic suggests there's something about sub-Saharan Africa that prevented these brain gene variants from becoming common there—either the Sahara kept blacks reproductively isolated from the rest of the world while these genes were spreading, or the sub-Saharan environment wasn't conducive to the survival of people with these genes."
- ^ See, for example, "More on the New Orleans Nightmare:Why We Have to Talk About Racial Reality Even if John Podhoretz Says We Can’t," VDARE, September 2005. "All this is now common parlance, more or less. What you won’t hear, except from me, is that "Let the good times roll" is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society."
- ^ O'Sullivan referred to "evolutionary psychology," but Sailer's summary uses "science of human nature." See: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2002/02/thats-steve-sailer-evolcon-not-evilcon.html.
- ^ [1], Steve Sailer, VDARE, July 25, 2004
- ^ http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050626_populism.htm VDARE.com: 06/26/05 - The Wind from the South— Anti-White Populism
- ^ http://www.vdare.com/sailer/mexico.htm Shackled to an [ungrateful] corpse
- ^ http://www.vdare.com/sailer/mexico_part3.htm
- ^ The Most Disgusting Sentence Yet Written About Katrina, John Podhoretz, National Review group blog, September 5, 2005
- ^ Academic Racists Make Mainstream Inroads, Steve Rendall, FAIR, March/April 2005
- ^ NBC offered far-right columnist Steve Sailer a platform to attack Hollywood, Media Matters for America, January 23, 2006
- ^ Acuña, Rodolfo. U.S. Latino issues. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.
- ^ The American Conservative, January 2003. Selected for inclusion in Steven Pinker's book The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.
- ^ Speech delivered to Margaret Thatcher and other guests at the Hudson Institutes’ 1999 Thatcher Weekend conference on 'Will the 21st Century Be the American Century?'" Published in American Outlook Magazine, Spring, 2000. (Slideshow)
- ^ National Review (feature article), July 1997.
- ^ March 2003
- ^ National Review (cover story), April 1996 .
- ^ The American Conservative, February 13, 2006.
- ^ VDARE.com, May 8, 2005.
- ^ The American Conservative, February 14, 2005.
- ^ VDARE.com, December 19, 2004.
- ^ VDARE.com, December 12, 2004.
- ^ The American Conservative, December 20, 2004.
- ^ The American Conservative (cover story), January 15, 2007.
- ^ The American Conservative (cover story), July 31, 2006.
- ^ The American Conservative (cover story), June 11, 2005.
- ^ National Post, February 2005. On the controversy surrounding Larry Summers' statements on the gender gap in the sciences.
- ^ Washington Times, April 2004.
- ^ The National Interest, Winter 2003.
- ^ United Press International, May 13, 2003.
- ^ United Press International, 2002.
- ^ National Post, November 20, 1999.
- ^ National Post, December 1, 1999.
- ^ Vdare, August 2005.
[edit] External links
- Steve Sailer's website and blog
- The Human Biodiversity Institute via Internet Archives (version of February 10, 2006)
- Steve Sailer's Vdare.com page
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