Jared Taylor

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. He also worked as a courtroom interpreter.

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, a monthly online magazine which describes itself as a "race-realist, white advocacy organization", and which has been described as a white supremacist publication by several sources. In 1994 he created the New Century Foundation to help with the running of American Renaissance.

In 1992 Taylor authored the book Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and academic failure. In 1994, in light of his authorship of Paved With Good Intentions, 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."

In 1998 he edited and contributed an essay to The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, a collection of eight essays on race. He was the main contributor to a collection of articles from American Renaissance magazine called A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century (2003), and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race (2007).

He published the sequel to Paved With Good Intentions, titled White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, in 2011. His 2014 book, Face to Face with Race, argues that racial differences are real and innate.

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. Taylor has "strenuously rejected" being called 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".

Race

Taylor is a proponent of scientific racism and voluntary racial segregation. Taylor also believes that there are racial differences in intelligence among the various ethno-racial groups across the world. Taylor argues that Blacks are generally less intelligent than Hispanics, while Hispanics 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".

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 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.”

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."

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".

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

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