Jared Taylor

[[File:2008 Jared Taylor.jpg|right|thumb|165px|Taylor in 2008.]]
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{{cquote|[[African American|Blacks]] and [[White people|whites]] are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, [[Western civilization]] — any kind of civilization — disappears.|||Jared Taylor, racist extraordinaire.<ref name="SPLC">[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor Jared Taylor] ''Southern Poverty Law Center''.</ref>}}

'''Samuel Jared Taylor''' {{lived|1951|}} is a [[Japanese]]-born [[American]] [[white supremacist]] and [[alt-right]] leader and pseudo-intellectual (but we repeat ourselves) responsible for founding the [[white nationalist]] magazine ''[[American Renaissance]]''. He has been involved with the [[racist]] political [[far-right]] from at least 1990 onward and as such he's been called the 'Intellectual Godfather' of the movement.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160828120023/http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/26/the-intellectual-godfather-of-the-alt-right-talks-to-the-daily-caller/ The ‘Intellectual Godfather’ Of The Alt Right Talks To The Daily Caller] by Alex Pfeiffer (9:54 PM 08/26/2016) ''The Daily Caller'' (archived from August 28, 2016).</ref>

Taylor's parents were [[Christian]] [[missionaries]] in Japan when he was born, and he attended only Japanese language schools during most of his youth.<ref name=nieli>"Jared Taylor and White Identity" by Russell Nieli (2019) In: ''Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy'', edited by Mark Sedgwick. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190877590. Pages 137-154.</ref>{{rp|137}} Taylor also gained fluency in French by the time he attended a master's degree program at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.<ref name=nieli/>{{rp|137}} Taylor's fluency in Japanese made him well-placed when he wrote the well-regarded book explaining Japanese culture, ''Shadows of the Rising Sun'',<ref>''Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the "Japanese Miracle"'' by Jared Taylor (1983) William Morrow. ISBN 0688048277.</ref>  at a time of Japanese economic ascendancy.<ref name=nieli/>{{rp|141}} 

Following the success of his first book, Taylor published the book ''Paved with Good Intentions'' in 1992,<ref>''Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America'' by Jared Taylor (1992) Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0786700254.</ref> which presented itself as a [[Social conservatism|socially conservative]]/[[traditional values]] perspective.<ref name=nieli/>{{rp|144}} Following that book, he published ''White Identity'' in 2012,<ref>''White Identity: racial consciousness in the 21<sup>st</sup> century'' by Jared Taylor (2012) PRAAG. ISBN 1920128107.</ref> which was overtly [[race realist]],<ref name=nieli/>{{rp|144}} and published with PRAAG, a racist [[Afrikaner]] publisher.<ref>{{wpa|Dan Roodt}}</ref> When asked why ''Paved with Good Intentions'' did not discuss IQ but ''White Identity'' did, Taylor gave a [[bait-and-switch]] explanation, "…it probably would have been impossible to get the book published if it had made a point of trying to explain these racial differences in terms of inherent abilities. It’s still very much a radioactive subject and was probably, if anything, even more radioactive then than it is now."<ref>[https://archive.ph/ENUwk Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America: Jared Taylor Interview], interview by Carol M. Swain, ''American Renaissance''. Reprinted from ''Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America'', edited by Carol M. Swain (2002) Cambridge University Press. ISBN v. Archived from 2 Jul 2021 06:40:14 UTC.</ref>

Taylor could be considered something of a wannabe call-back to old-timey [[imperialist]]s, being a very 'refined' racist,<ref name="SPLC"/> having a B.A. in [[philosophy]] and Master's degree in international [[economics]] (read: [[Ultracrepidarian|''not'']] biology, psychology or history). His primary policy goal is a return to "pre-1965" standards for allowing immigrants into the country so that "[[European]] people" and their descendants are a larger percentage of the US population, more white power organizations, and for explicit [[white supremacy]] to return to being one of the dominant ideologies in the US. To accomplish this he claims he needs to raise "[[false consciousness|consciousness]]" among white people. Taylor opposes the [[Civil Rights Act]] as well as any legislation that restricts individuals or private organizations from engaging in [[discrimination]].<ref name=nieli/>{{rp|145-146}}

Despite rejecting the idea that [[Donald Trump]] is an actual member of the alt-right, he's still unsurprisingly a Trump supporter, going so far as to make robocalls to [[Iowa]] citizens urging them to vote for Trump, mostly due to [[Xenophobia|their agreement on immigration issues]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/12/why-this-leading-white-nationalist-is-urging-iowa-voters-to-back-donald-trump/ Hear a white nationalist’s robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump] by Peter Holley (Jan. 12, 2016 at 11:28 a.m. PST) ''The Washington Post''</ref>

[[Stopped clock|Oddly enough]] for a leader of the racist fringe right, he explicitly rejects [[antisemitism]], which has caused infighting between him and other racists such as [[Neo-Nazi]] [[David Duke]].<ref name="SPLC"/>

Taylor also has the distinction of being a white nationalist who engaged in a debate on the campus of Kentucky State University, a large and historically African American campus, against Professor Wilfred Reilly, professor of political science. The debate took place in April 2016. By most accounts Taylor won, but this was mainly due to the juvenile and lackluster debate tactics of Professor Reilly. Reilly also utilized a gambit where he invited several students on stage to talk about their racial/ethnic backgrounds. This could be considered an [[appeal to emotion]] on the part of Professor Reilly.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoqN4kXk3s The Great Debate: Wilfred Reilly vs. Jared Taylor on HBCU Campus] (Apr 28, 2016) ''YouTube''.</ref>

Taylor's [[Twitter]] account was permanently suspended as of December 2017.<ref>[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/twitter-bans-white-nationalists-with-ties-to-trump.html Twitter Is Banning White Nationalists—and Some of the First to Go Have Connections to the Trump White House] by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Dec 18, 2017, 12:06 PM) ''Slate''.</ref> His popular [[YouTube]] channel was cancelled in July 2020.
==Gallery==
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File:TaylorandJackson.jpg|Taylor (right) with [[Jesse Jackson]] in an odd moment during 2010
File:Rusich meets Jared Taylor.jpg|Taylor (center) receiving a kolovrat ([[Alt-right glossary#Sonnenrad|Sonnenrad]]) unit patch from two members of the neo-Nazi Rusich unit of Russia's [[Wagner Group]]
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==See also==
*[[Council of Conservative Citizens]]

==References==
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