Jared Taylor

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	Philosophy (B.A.) International Economics (M.A.)
Alma mater	Yale University Paris Institute of Political Studies
Occupation	Editor of American Renaissance
Spouse(s)	Evelyn Rich[1]
Children	2 daughters
Website	American Renaissance

Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white nationalist^[2] and white supremacist.^[3] He is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a magazine often described as a white supremacist publication. Taylor is also an author and 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 white nationalist think tank.^[4] He is also a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens.^[5][6]

Taylor, like many of the organizations he is associated with, is often described as promoting racist ideologies by, among others, civil rights groups, news media, and academics studying racism in the U.S.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Early life

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.^[11] He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in philosophy.^[12]

Career

Taylor worked as a news editor at The Washington Times from 1974 to 1975. Following that, he spent three years on an MA in international economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), graduating in 1978. He 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.^[13] He also worked in West Africa, and has traveled the area extensively.^[11] Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese and English.^[14][15] He also worked as a courtroom interpreter.^[12]

He authored Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983), 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.^[16]

In 1990 he published the first issue of the American Renaissance periodical, and later founded the New Century Foundation to help with the running of American Renaissance.^[17]

Taylor first turned to race in Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (1992),^[18] in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and academic failure. He also edited The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998).^[19] On May 3, 2011, The New Century Foundation released Jared Taylor's sequel to Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America entitled White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century.

After having written "Paved With Good Intentions", in 1994 Taylor was called by the defense team of a defendant in a Fort Worth, Texas murder trial, to give expert testamony with regard to the race related aspects of the case^[20]. During the course of the case he stated, speaking with reference to young black men, as "The most dangerous people in America". and that, "This must be taken into consideration", in judging whether or not it was reasonable for the defendant to fear for his life.^[21]

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)^[22] and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007).^[23]

Taylor authored Face to Face with Race (2014), in which he stated that racial differences are real and innate.^[24]

Views

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.^{[25][7][8][9][26][27]} Taylor has "strenuously rejected"^[11] being called a racist, arguing that he is instead a "racialist who believes in race-realism".^[28][29] He has also said he is not a white supremacist, describing himself as a "white advocate",^[30] 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".^[11]

Race

Taylor believes that white people have their own racial interests, and that it is intellectually valid for them to protect these interests; he sees it as anomalous that non-Hispanic whites have allowed people of other races to organize themselves politically while not doing so themselves.^[31] His journal American Renaissance was founded to provide such a voice for white interests.^[32] 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."^[33] Taylor is noted as saying, "Whites deserve a homeland," and when questioned about the new 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."^[34]

Taylor believes in a general correlation between race and intelligence, where blacks are generally less intelligent than whites, and whites are generally less intelligent than East Asians: "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".^[35]

Judaism and anti-Semitism

The Southern Poverty Law Center notes that Taylor is unusual among the radical right in "his lack of anti-Semitism."^[36] 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."^[37]

Donald Trump

Taylor supported Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and recorded robocalls to support Trump before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.^[38][39]

Taylor described Trump's inauguration as "a sign of rising white consciousness".^[40] 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."^[41]

Reception

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist—a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old".^[36]

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), have 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." They have also stated that "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy".^[42]

A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert".^[7]

His online magazine, American Renaissance, has been described as a white supremacist publication and a "forum for writers disparaging the abilities of minorities".^[43]

Bibliography

• Taylor, Jared (1983). Shadows of the Rising Sun: a Critical View of the "Japanese miracle". New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-02455-6. 
  • Taylor, Jared; Mitsunobu Yamamoto (1984). Shado obu Japan (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kobunsha. ISBN 978-4-334-96006-3. 
• Taylor, Jared (1992). Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-88184-866-2. 
• Taylor, Jared (1998). The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-0-8. 
• McDaniel, George, ed. (2003). A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-2-4.  foreword by Jared Taylor
• Taylor, Jared (2011). White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9656383-9-1. 
• Taylor, Jared (2014). Face to Face with Race. Oakton, Va.: New Century Foundation. ISBN 0-9838910-2-8. 

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