Steve Sailer

Steven Ernest Sailer is a far-righthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-far-right-uses-mystical-racism-to-demonize-migrantshttps://rogues.wiki/index.php/Steve_Sailer American journalist, blogger and global warming denier who is frequently described as a white supremacist"The Daily Caller Has a White Nationalist Problem" by Stephen Pihhott and Alex Amend, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2017 August 16 and transphobic.https://www.transgendermap.com/politics/media/steve-sailer/ Sailer popularized the phrase "human biodiversity" in the 1990s."The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right" by Park MacDougald and Jason Willick, New York Mag Intelligencer, 2017 April 30"Human Biodiversity: the Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right" by Ari Feldman, Forward, 2016 August 5https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/BaileyAssociates/HumanBiodiversityGroup.htm He has an MBA from UCLA with an emphasis on finance and marketing, after which he became a self-described "dilettante".Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group Members maintained by Steve Sailer (as of 7/20/99) AOL (archived from February 15, 2003). Sailer began his journalism career in the late 1990s, briefly working for the National Review and then for such outlets as (where, naturally, he was wailing about The Bell Curve.)"Culture's Bell Curve" by Steve Sailer, American Conservative, 2003 November 17 He currently writes articles for the anti-immigration and white nationalist website VDARE.https://vdare.com/writers/steve-sailer
Sailer's later work and blogging focused much more heavily on the neo-eugenics HBD concept that he popularized. Sailer's current home is at The Unz Review, where he writes frequent blog posts from his peculiar pseudoscientific viewpoint.iSteve blog, Unz Review Sailer also is a frequent contributor to Taki's Magazine."The ‘race realist’ theory of how Trump can win, explained" by David Weigel, Washington Post, 2016 August 22
Sailer's body of work mimics the white grievance politics found in the Donald Trump era GOP, and, thus, his early blogs in the 2000s can, in some ways, be seen as a sort of an early warning sign regarding the rise of the alt-right."How Trumpism hid in plain sight for 15 years" by Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week, 2016 July 14 Indeed, Sailer's articles reportedly influenced Trump administration policies like Stephen Miller's immigration policy."Leaked Emails Indicate that Stephen Miller Propped Up Nationalist Ideology" by Ian Spiegelman, LA Mag, 2019 November 12 His blog is rife with primitive racial and gender stereotypes."Extremist Steve Sailer is Source for CNN's 'Black In America' Series, by David Holthouse, Southern Poverty Law Center, 25 July 2008.Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser, Northwestern University Psychology Professor J. Michael Bailey Looks into Queer Science Southern Poverty Law Center, 2003 December 31 Other noxious beliefs include his contention that homosexuality is not genetic but is a disease.
Sailer has zero academic credentials in the science of genetics, or biology, or anything even remotely science oriented. His education was a (MBA) degree at UCLA in 1982."College Rankings" by Steve Sailer, Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog, 2009 September 17
In a 2021 article published in Review of General Psychology, Sailer is described as a "political writer who uses the language of IQ and genetics to further a White nationalist political agenda."Jackson Jr, J. P., & Winston, A. S. (2021). The mythical taboo on race and intelligence. Review of General Psychology, 25(1), 3-26 (see page 9).
The ADL has described Sailer as "a longtime VDARE contributor known for making racist statements."https://www.adl.org/resources/news/anti-immigrant-website-uses-boston-bombings-target-immigrants
After VDARE suspended its activities in July 2024, Sailer now publishes full-time at Substack (SteveSailer.net).https://www.stevesailer.net/ His recent racist posts include encouraging white people to breed more since "America is increasingly running out of white kids with which to solve the problems of blacks."https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-not-so-great-replacement
==Background==
Steve Sailer has gained notoriety for his racist, transphobic and sexist comments online spanning two decades. In 2003, a website (xsteve.com) was set up to monitor his online hate as well as document his ties to the far-right. It contained the following biographical page:https://web.archive.org/web/20030811235500/http://www.xsteve.com/steve_bio.html
===Unz Foundation===
Sailer has received thousands in dollars from the Unz Foundation:
===Far-right connections===
Aside from being a grantee of the Unz Foundation — Sailer is connected to various other far-right organizations and institutes. In June 2023, Sailer attended a VDARE conference and was one of the guest speakers. Sailer spoke alongside John Derbyshire, James Kirkpatrick and Peter Brimelow.https://vdare.com/posts/steve-sailer-i-m-going-to-give-a-speech-at-vdare-s-2023-summer-conferencehttps://twitter.com/vdare/status/1673804131016867841
Sailer has close ties to the Greek millionaire , having regularly written articles in his Taki's Magazine.https://www.takimag.com/contributor/Steve%20Sailer/6/ Theodoracopulos has a history of making racist remarks including describing the Saudi royal family members as "ruling towelheads".https://observer.com/2012/05/to-slur-with-love-ironic-racism-is-more-than-just-taki/3/
In 2010, Sailer was promoting white supremacist Richard Spencer's AlternativeRight.com.https://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/03/alternative-right.html?showComment=1268801962658 Sailer described Spencer's racist webzine as "elegant". Sailer was apparently invited by Spencer to write articles for his website but declined. Instead, Spencer took on board Richard Hanania (who used the pseudonym "Richard Hoste"). A search of Hoste's name in the comments section of Steve Sailer's blog reveals dozens of comments.Search "site:isteve.blogspot.com Richard Hoste" on Google. Sailer's connection to Spencer and Hoste do not end there. Sailer had attended the 3rd annual meeting of the H.L. Mencken Club in October 2010 and delivered a speech suggested to him by Spencer. According to Sailer: "Richard Spencer has asked me to speak on the topic “Can HBD Trump PC?”.https://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/10/from-vdare-heres-opening-of-my-speech.html Spencer has been a speaker at H.L. Menchen Club meetings. The club itself seems to have been founded by Peter Brimelow of VDARE and the paleoconservative Paul Gottfried who coined the term alt-right. The SPLC describes the club as white nationalist and racist.https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/04/white-nationalists-gather-baltimore-ninth-annual-hl-mencken-club-conferencehttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2008/11/26/prominent-racists-attend-inaugural-hl-mencken-club-gathering
The HL Mencken Club describes itself as "an organization of writers, scholars, and advocates who seek to form an independent intellectual Right."https://web.archive.org/web/20101031113448/http://www.hlmenckenclub.org/HL_Mencken_Club/About.html
Sailer is a mutual follower of numerous far-right, eugenicist and white nationalist accounts on Twitter including John Fuerst, Emil Kirkegaard, Jonathan Anomaly, Edward Dutton and Bronze Age Pervert. Sailer has sporadically tweeted support for Fuerst's and Kirkegaard's racialist pseudoscience.https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1641983575976452097 Sailer's articles on The Unz Review have further promoted Kirkegaard's papers on race in the Mankind Quarterly.https://www.unz.com/isteve/kirkegaard-reviews-the-state-of-science-on-race-differences/
In August 2023, Sailer defended Richard Hanania after he was exposed in the Huffington Post as a white supremacist.https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-hananias-the-origins-of-woke-civil-rights-law-corporate-america-and-the-triumph-of-identity-politics/https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1689061016410497024
==Views==
===Global warming denial===
Sailer rejects the scientific consensus on global warming and describes himself as an "agnostic" on the main cause of climate-change.https://www.unz.com/isteve/climate-change-v-population-change/ 
He believes that the "causes of global warming are disputed".https://archive.is/GxH8m
The websites Sailer often writes for promote global warming denial e.g., Takis Magazine.https://www.takimag.com/article/the-fake-climate-consensus/
===Homophobia===
Sailer is a homophobe who thinks homosexuality is a "malfunction":
===America First===
Sailer popularized the policy a decade before Trump. In 2005, Sailer wrote an article titled "Americans First" where he outlined his right-wing populism political ideology called "Citizenism".https://www.theamericanconservative.com/americans-first/
In the 2000s, Sailer debated Jared Taylor on citizenism vs. white nationalism.https://vdare.com/articles/citizenism-vs-white-nationalism-ii-sailer-sums-up Both ideologies are similar since they are both anti-immigration but the main difference being the former for practical reasons realizes white identity politics is less palatable to voters so instead favours civic nationalism. Taylor himself would concede this, noting "Sailer is probably right to argue that an open appeal to the interests of whites may not be the most successful way to sell immigration control."https://vdare.com/articles/citizenism-vs-white-nationalism-a-second-reply-to-steve-sailer
===Great Replacement conspiracy theory===
Steve Sailer supports a variant of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory promoted by Tucker Carlson; specifically the idea Democrats use mass immigration to increase their voter base among non-whites.https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1560444781917904896https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1446765031278800897https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1525984251375591426 In 2021, Sailer tweeted: "The Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory when a Democrat enunciates it."https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1417243314051452928
===Pro-natalism===
Sailer is a pro-natalist who favours pro-natalist policies, albeit for white Europeans. In one article for VDARE published in 2001, "Does Europe absolutely, positively need immigrants?" Sailer suggested various pro-natalist policies such as making abortion illegal, "tax incentives to couples who have babies" and even legalizing polygamy:
====Natal Conference====
In September 2023, Sailer was promoting and defending a Natal Conference held in Austin, Texas with the aim of boosting birth and fertility rates.https://archive.ph/Foepg
===Anti-immigration===
Sailer is fixated with a scenario where the white population becomes the minority in the US and therefore argues for tight immigration restriction:
Curiously, the same article Sailer wrote these words in Taki's Magazine in February 2016 dropped his extreme terminology and removed this paragraph.Compare this version to this version.
Sailer opposes Muslim immigration and has even gone as far as arguing to repatriate most Muslims in the US:
====Inconsistent environmental arguments====
Sailer has tried to cloak his racist opposition to non-white immigration in environmentalism by arguing he opposes immigration because black and Latino immigrants add to population growth in the US which leads to environmental degradation. In his essay "Immigration vs. Environmentalism" Sailer further goes on to claim "Latin Americans have shown a positive disregard for environmentalism as evidenced by their tendency toward littering and driving smog-belching old junkers."https://web.archive.org/web/20031204104924/http://isteve.com/Immigration-Environmentalism.htm The problem with Sailer's argument is his lack of consistency: if he was truly concerned about population growth in the US he should not have had children himself (he has two sonshttps://archive.is/uxXcd) while he also encourages whites to have larger families. When these contradictions are pointed out he is quick to change the subject.
More recently, Sailer uses another environmental argument against immigration based on carbon emissions.https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1069780507641049088https://www.unz.com/isteve/carbon-emissions-and-immigration/ Sailer points out adding millions of immigrants to the US each year increases greenhouse emissions.https://archive.is/GxH8m However, having children also does the same thing.https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/having-children-brings-high-carbon-impact/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378008001003 So here again is Sailer's inconsistency. Some of Sailer's own followers on social media have pointed out his contradictory views.https://archive.is/XIH2x Sailer's argument is additionally bizarre since he denies anthropogenic global warming.
===Race as an "extended family"===
Sailer identifies as a pseudoscientific racial realist and argues race is an "extended family".https://web.archive.org/web/20031003174002/http://www.isteve.com/makingsense.htmhttps://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/05/steve-sailer-1998-race-is-extremely.html
His extended family concept of race is popular among the alt-right and white nationalists, for example it is supported by posters on Stormfront.https://archive.is/F4aam
===Race and intelligence===
Since the late 1990s, Sailer has been an outspoken adherent of so-called "HBD", namely race and intelligence pseudoscience. 
As a proponent of hereditarianism when it comes to IQ, he believes blacks and whites are not likely to ever achieve social and economic equality:
====Steven Pinker====
Steven Pinker has promoted the career of Sailer, and Sailer has taken credit for influencing Pinker's hereditarianism.
===Anti-black racism===
Sailer is on record as writing blacks in the US "possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society."https://archive.is/20121211061614/www.vdare.com/sailer/050903_new_orleans.htm
In 2003, Steve Sailer wrote: "America's perpetual trouble has been a less-productive black minority."https://web.archive.org/web/20120103044758/http://www.vdare.com/articles/will-us-retain-its-market-dominant-majority
===Wikipedia conspiracy theories===
Sailer is known to promote conspiracy theories about the article on Wikipedia. He has claimed a cabal of left-wing activists have taken control of the article and ban supporters of hereditarianism from editing. Most oddly he wrote an article criticising Wikipedia editor David Gerard under the title: "Wikipedia's science denialism on race & intelligence."https://www.stevesailer.net/p/wikipedias-science-denialism-on-race However, the edit history of the race and intelligence article shows that Gerard has never once edited it.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Race_and_intelligence&action=history&dir=prev&offset=20091013073010%7C319582316&limit=5000
==Online outlets==
Sailer is a regular at the "immigration restrictionist" hate site VDare, where his spittle-flecked bigot-bait appears alongside of knuckle-dragging rants by veteran members of the hate community like neo-Nazi theoretician Kevin MacDonald, viciously anti-black blogger Nicholas Stix and notorious homophobe John Derbyshire. Sailer also contributes copiously to the semantic cesspool of Taki Mag, where he channels the tried-and-tested conservative tactic of inventing facts and shamelessly distorting history to serve a fetid agenda of naked hate:
==Other obsessions==
Although tEh juice jOoOoOz and their malevolent machinations are arguably número uno on Sailer's list of way-past-unhealthy obsessions, he still finds plenty a-time in his sorry existence to squirt bigot-venom at African-Americans, the LGBT community, the Hispanic community, undocumented migrants, feminists and, in general, everyone and anyone who isn't a white heterosexual able-bodied male like himself. Yet even in his ideal Hitler wet dream, he'd still have a big problem with all the whites from 'mixed bloodlines'; his real ideal world is basically just him and all his friends and family, no one else stealing his oxygen. A particular fixation of his is with the author Ta-Nahesi Coates, about whom he has written at least ten op-eds in the Unz Review.Steve Sailer, Occam’s Rubber Room. takimag.com, 16 September 2015.Steve Sailer, Ta-Nehisi Coates: “All Is Fog”. takimag.com, 25 October 2017
==="The Most Important Graph in the World"===
Sailer is obsessed with the birth/fertility rates of Sub-Saharan African countries. He describes UN population projections of Sub-Saharan Africa as "The Most Important Graph in the World" because of projected population growth in the region from 2030 to 2100.https://www.unz.com/isteve/2022-worlds-most-important-graph/https://www.unz.com/isteve/2019-most-important-graph-in-the-world/https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/957417933101133824 Sailer's opposition to population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is based on his anti-black and anti-immigration views he has expressed in tweets:
Sailer has argued "Africa's Fertility Rate Threatens the Globe"https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-africas-fertility-rate-threatens-the-globe/ and "the Sub-Saharan African population bomb is the most obvious long-term problem facing global peace and prosperity".https://www.takimag.com/article/africa_on_the_brink_steve_sailer/ Unlike Sub-Saharan Africa, however, Sailer wants to increase fertility rates in Europe and the US.https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1308714893462315008 In a book review of Matthew Yglesias' One Billion Americans, Sailer writes:
In a nutshell, Sailer's views are pretty much standard of white nationalists: lower fertility rates of blacks but increase white fertility rates in the West. 
In a 2019 article for Takis Magazine, Sailer is open about his white nationalist sentiment:
==Fame?==
Just enough to be persona non grata on any respectable message board or sub, not that he shows any signs of desisting from his self-appointed task of pumping hate-memes into the willing minds of his on-line acolytes. Think of him as a dead cat under the floorboards of the internet: worthless, repulsive and raising an unholy stench. But, sadly, also very difficult to get rid of.
In a stopped clock moment, however, he was one of the first people to question A Rape on Campus, even if he managed to be an unrequited obnoxious dickhead all the way through it.Steve Sailer, A Rape Hoax for Book Lovers. takimag.com, 3 December 2014.
==Lead-crime hypothesis==
Sailer absolutely despises the lead-crime hypothesis, no doubt because it challenges his favorite myths about crime and racism. He has waged an Internet crusade to blandly refute and derail discussions of the topic wherever and whenever he can. If, for some reason, you want this jackanape to show up on your blog or news article, just do a couple of posts on the topic and he'll eventually appear, possibly in a flash of smoke and sulfur.
==Right-wing criticism==
Sailer has received criticism from some mainstream conservatives for his obsession with race and intelligence. 
Former Deputy Editor of the right-wing website BrexitCentral, David Scullion in The Critic has described Sailer as an "alt-right troll".https://thecritic.co.uk/cancel-the-train-drivers/
==See also==
* Human Varieties
* Human Phenotypes
* Bonesandbehaviours
==External links==
* iSteve -- Sailer's personal hate-blog
* Sailer at VDare
* Sailer at Taki Mag
* Sailer's latest nest of bigotry at Ron Unz's site "The Unz Review"
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