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Will SwaimThu. March 27
 

LB STATE PROF SAYS IT’S SCIENCE!

Kevin MacDonald has a stock response for his critics: unable to handle the science of his white-nationalist writings, his detractors simply attack his conclusions.

A professor of psychology at Cal State Long Beach, MacDonald has made a modest side career in anti-Jewish writing. His conclusions are pretty remarkable, but they’re hardly science: In Separation and its Discontents, for example, he wrote, “There is an eerie sense in which National Socialist [that is, Nazi] ideology was a mirror image of traditional Jewish ideology.” In his response to his colleagues at CSULB he wrote, “There is no question that the defense of Israel is absolutely central to Jewish identity not only in Israel, but at least since the 1967 war, to American Jews as well.”

German Jews were just Nazis who spoke Yiddish? “Eerie”? “No question”? “Defense of Israel”? “Absolutely central”? “Jewish identity”? How do you measure that kind of shit, doctor?

You don’t because you can’t. It’s hard to argue with someone’s opinion, which is all this stuff is—all right, not “all,” but “mostly”: opinion wrapped around the outside of irrelevant data, a few selective quotes from racists who happen to be Jews, and some interesting speculation, the stuff you expect in a dorm-room confab after a few screwdrivers and an entry-level course in sociology.

But most of the stuff falls to pieces when you look closely. Take his argument that Germans went nuts and murdered Jews in World War II because (MacDonald writes in his CSULB response) “Jews dominated areas of the economy and social class structure to which others aspired—a principal theme of Separation and Its Discontents.” I can buy that—until I read MacDonald’s assertion that Russians went crazy a couple generations earlier and kicked ass on their Jewish neighbors, jews whose most salient feature (he says in his response to a book review he didn’t like) was their “widespread poverty.”
Rich or poor, it seems, Jews have just been a popular target. In MacDonald’s writings they still are.

It’s their fault, he says. They’re hypocrites. “Despite the fact that support for Israel as an ethnostate has become the primary basis of Jewish identification for American Jews [my emphasis; still can’t get over the idea that you make assertions like that and call 'em science], a major theme of my writing has been that important Jewish intellectual and political movements have led the opposition to ethnonationalist conceptions of the United States and other Western countries.”

Translation: Using strategies developed over three millennia; Jews have cleverly managed to maintain group integrity while (with equal cleverness) using their control of the media to keep whitey from doing the same. Yargh.

But if you point out such inconsistencies, illogic and mere opinion, MacDonald says you haven’t really dealt with his evidence. That’s what he wrote in response to a review of his 1998 book in the journal Idea:

Robert Pois provides a generally negative reading of Separation and Its Discontents
based not so much on inaccuracies or omissions on my part, but, I think, on his perception that my book presents a not very flattering portrayal of Judaism.

Same goes for MacDonald’s response to his Long Beach colleagues: “In general,” he writes, their critique of his work

does not provide evidence that my views are incorrect, nor does it delve into evidence that I provide to support my positions. It basically states that I have come to certain conclusions — as if that in itself is enough to constitute a sufficient indictment.

You can read the critique of his work for yourself (see the link below) and discover lots of delving into evidence. And so it might be very fair to argue that it’s MacDonald who simply doesn’t like his opponents’ conclusions. Pois, the University of Colorado professor who reviewed MacDonald’s Separation and its Discontents for Idea, put it this way: the book is “a somewhat conventional racist approach, albeit far more sophisticated than average.”

FIFTH POST: March 27, 2008 @12:00
Dr. Kevin MacDonald calls “massively hypocritical” Jewish Studies profs’ claim that he’s a white nationalist

Far from denying he’s a white ethnocentrist, MacDonald defends it by pointing out that many nations–including “Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Serbia, and Turkey”–are ethnocentric, and that maybe America should be too. That it won’t is owing to the perfidy and massive hypocrisy of Jews, he says:

“The attack on my [sic] by the Jewish Studies Program is massively hypocritical. Jewish liberal/leftists pose as the most enlightened, tolerant people in the world, but they somehow fail to wrest control of the Israel Lobby in the US from extreme Jewish ethnonationalists who dominate the Lobby. This occurs despite the fact that Jewish liberal/leftists constitute the great majority of American Jews and despite their involvement in funding and activism on behalf of the left in this country.”

Read MacDonald’s entire response here:

Kevin MacDonald’s response to Jewish Studies

FOURTH POST: March 21, 2008 @14:26

NO MORE WHITEY WASH: PROFS APOLOGIZE TO F*KING ALEXANDER
Turns out CSULB president didn’t ask faculty to out white-nationalist psych prof

In one of those weird moments where the wrong people are apologizing, Jewish Studies profs say they’re sorry they inadvertently mischaracterized F. King Alexander’s comments about white-nationalist psychology professor Dr. Kevin MacDonald:

On March 19, 2008, the CSULB Jewish Studies Program issued a series of statements concerning Dr. Kevin MacDonald, including one entitled “Justification for Public Statement on Dr. MacDonald’s Views.” In that Justification, we made reference several times to the opinions of President Alexander. In doing so, his words were taken out of context, and as a result, we are retracting that Justification. Specifically, President Alexander has not issued “a call to action” concerning Dr. MacDonald. Rather, as he has consistently stated, faculty have the option and right to express their views concerning any individual’s work. We offer our apologies to President Alexander for misconstruing and misrepresenting his statements.

March 21, 2008
CSULB Jewish Studies Program

THIRD POST: March 20, 2008 @17:05

LB STATE PROF SAYS NO THANKS TO WHITE MAN’S OFFER TO CHAT ABOUT THE ENDANGERED WHITE MAN

Dr. Kevin MacDonald tells me his lawyer has advised him to say nothing regarding charges he’s a white nationalist , but promises to send me his written response to documents in our second post. In those documents (see below), Jewish Studies professors from CSULB lay out their case: “Over the last decade and a half, Dr. Kevin MacDonald has written a large amount of material on white ethnocentrism, racial differences, Jewish traits and the Jewish threat to European civilization, and the dangers of non-white immigration to America.”

SECOND POST: March 20, 2008 @11:00

LB STATE PROFS CRITIQUE WRITINGS OF WHITE-NATIONALIST COLLEAGUE

In a post yesterday (see below), we reported that a group of Cal State University LB profs from that school’s Jewish Studies program laid out their case for a clear condemnation of Dr. Kevin MacDonald. Here’s their case, in two parts:

MacDonald Statement from Jewish Studies

Appendix to Jewish Statement

FIRST POST: March 19, 2008 @18:25

WHERE’S THE HEROIC DEFENDER OF THE WHITE RACE?

A CSULB prof just wants to know

“Over the last decade and a half, Dr. Kevin MacDonald has written a large amount of material on white ethnocentrism, racial differences, Jewish traits and the Jewish threat to European civilization, and the dangers of non-white immigration to America.” That’s the opening skirmish in the battle to tame–maybe displace–a Cal State Long Beach professor whose writing sure as hell reads like white-supremacist tracts dressed up as scholarship.

Insisting “that in no way do we wish to impede Dr. MacDonald’s First Amendment rights or interfere with his academic freedom,” scholars in the university’s Jewish Studies program said in a document released today that the university ought to “disassociate itself from [MacDonald's] white nationalist and anti-Jewish statements.”

” [J]ust as he has the freedom of speech to advance his white nationalist agenda,” the statement continued, “so too do we have the freedom of speech to deplore his prejudicial views of Jews and non-whites and state that Dr. MacDonald’s writings on white ethnocentrism, Jews, race, and immigration do not enjoy the respect of many of his colleagues. ”

Many? It seems unlikely there any CSULB colleagues who can “respect” either MacDonald’s conclusions or the Barcalounger logic that gets him there.

Consider his introduction to “Psychology and White Enthnocentrism” in The Occidental Quarterly, a publication of the Charles Martel Society.
While growing up I would often read accounts of European heroes who had battled for their people and for great causes. William Wallace, Robert Bruce and the Scots against the English, Sir Francis Drake leading the battle against the Spanish Armada, Charles Martel and the Franks defending Europe against the Muslims, King Leonidas and the Spartans at Thermopylae, and many others. Those days seem over now. Our political leaders are actually managing the displacement of their own people, and very few white people have the courage to do anything other than vote them back into office. Or they vote for the other party, which simply changes the faces of the managers.

Last month, the online journal InsiderHigherEd.com considered MacDonald’s writings–on Valentine’s Day, around the time of Cal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander’s “President’s Forum on International Human Rights.” In “Hate In Their Midst,” the journal reported:

None of the critics are suggesting that MacDonald’s tenure should be revoked, or that he be barred from expressing his views. But many wonder why the university has never publicly as an institution stated that it finds MacDonald’s views offensive or at the very least that his views don’t represent the university. Further, some wonder why the psychology department’s public statement issued the last time the controversy over MacDonald broke makes no mention of him. While the department is considering changing that, there are as of yet no signs that the university will issue a statement. Still others wonder why faculty members granted tenure to MacDonald in the first place.

Alexander, the CSULB president, has reportedly written that “we must assert our disapproval of the seemingly prejudicial views expressed by Professor MacDonald in a number of his scholarly pursuits and academic discourse” and added that “as president, I find these views and representations professionally irresponsible and morally untenable.”

The campus Jewish Studies Program responded to Alexander’s call for a closer look at MacDonald’s work with a pretty thorough examination.

But like I say, MacDonald’s greatest threat to CSULB isn’t just his conclusions; beneath the academic patina, those are garden-variety anti-semitism. It’s the hamfisted incompetence he displays in reaching them. Read his rambling, sophomoric essay in The Occidental Quarterly and you get this:

In fact, white liberals are more hypocritical about race than conservatives: There is a larger gap between implicit attitudes and explicit attitudes toward blacks among white liberals than among white conservatives.

Translation: Though the “implicit attitudes” of “white liberals . . . are less negative than those of conservatives,” white liberals are more hypocritical on race because they are less “explicit” than conservatives. Turns out white liberals don’t say everything they think.

My mother, a conservative white Catholic from South Orange County, firmly believes that you shouldn’t say anything at all if you can’t say something nice. That was once a hallmark, not just of white liberal culture, but of America itself. My mother didn’t call that “hypocrisy”; she called it “manners.” But then she was no professor of psychology.

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    You guys are late for the game--the Southern Poverty Law Center outed that excuse for a human long ago.
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    Thanks for this. While many people know about MacDonald, what's new is this: the campus president has asked for--and now received--comments from staff, faculty and students on the prof. However, if you think the story ended with the Southern Poverty Law Center's revelation, if their fine work did as much as you'd like to see done--if you think the rest of us should now say nothing? We disagree.

    The SPLC called MacDonald "the man the radical right hopes will make anti-Semitism respectable." The link to their profile is:

    http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/arti...
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    Anti-Semitism is not just the property of the "radical right" as SPLC may seem to imply, there are plenty from the radical and non-radical left who are equally anti-Semitic. Labelling predjudice and bigotry as either left or right, liberal or conservative is wrong and paints too many identifying with any of those groups or labels with the same brush. There are liberal bigots and conservative racists, there is predjudice in the black communities, the white communities, the asian and the hispanic communities. I find the views and opinions of MacDonald to be abhorent, as I did another professor: Ward Churchill, as I do Louis Farakhan's (sp?). All espouse racist, anti-Semitic, bigoted views of our society and country. If one can find any benefit in MacDonald, et al it is that overt racism makes it easier to spot the racists and combat racism, sexism, homophobia....
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    That's a totally fair comment, LBRez. And I don't think there's any question that MacDonald is a conservative in the old-school meaning of that word: America was great when white non-Jewish Northern Europeans were settling the place. We'll have the time to consider more his ethnographic work in a moment, but you get the sense from it that he has no sense of what he claims is his specialty: evolutionary psychology. It's as if Northern European white communities always were and remain today monolithic and uninfluenced by outside forces--except when they capitulate to darker people. No sense of history. No sense of cultural exchange. No notion of how even these various white groups fought savagely amongst themselves--thesis, antithesis, synthesis, thesis . . . .
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    One might wonder what the interview process is like over at Cal State Long Beach. This is, after all, the same university that made Ron Maulana Karenga chair of their Black Studies department. Good ol' Karenga, creater of Kwanzaa (universally thumbs-upped for being an interesting collection of letters), and well-respected torturer. It's almost old news around campus that Karenga spent time in prison for imprisoning two young women...and of course there was that little thing about jabbing their mouths with a hot soldering iron and clamping their toes in a vice.

    Then there was professor Aguilar (if memory serves), a convicted rapist who resigned around the time a student journalist spread his secret.

    Sorry, gang. It would seem that antisemitism is a low-ranking offense at CSULB.
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    Hey, forgive me if this issue got past me. The article's writer doesn't make one important thing clear: is this McDonald guy a CSULB prof? Maybe we're all supposed to be in the know - I guess I'm the only one not - but please, Mr. Writer Man, could you please refer me to where his being on campus is noted?
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    Hi, lbwhiner: Sorry for the confusion, but most of the headlines refer to the fact that, yes, Dr. Kevin MacDonald is indeed a CSULB prof. --w
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    Second headline mentions colleague, but the critical first headline doesn't make his presence at CSULB clear at all. Nada.
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    Here's the problem: you have to read in reverse order--maybe not a good idea, but we run the blog posts in reverse chron order, newest first. The first post reads:

    “FIRST POST: March 19, 2008 @18:25
    WHERE’S THE HEROIC DEFENDER OF THE WHITE RACE?
    A CSULB prof just wants to know”

    And here’s the second, which clearly says “LB State” and “colleague”:

    SECOND POST: March 20, 2008 @11:00
    LB STATE PROFS CRITIQUE WRITINGS OF WHITE-NATIONALIST COLLEAGUE

    And here’s the third, in which I’m the “white man”:

    THIRD POST: March 20, 2008 @17:05
    LB STATE PROF SAYS NO THANKS TO WHITE MAN’S OFFER TO CHAT ABOUT THE ENDANGERED WHITE MAN
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    And I don’t think there’s any question that MacDonald is a conservative in the old-school meaning of that word: America was great when white non-Jewish Northern Europeans were settling the place.


    The oh-so-tragic-it's-hillarious part of that statement is the fact that Jews were settling the US just slightly after the pilgrims. There were Jews fighting with the revolutionaries back in 1776! And they were already 2nd generation Americans, at least. The first congregation in what is now the United States was established in 1654.

    So that nostalgia for pre-Jewish Northern European settlement these conservatives long for was over well before the Founding Fathers were even born!
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    Prior to 1800 there were almost no jews living full-time in the United States---there were at most a few hundred part-time resident jews in the major seaport towns representing mostly jewish interests based in Europe.
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    From "Jews in America: Our Story":

    http://www.jewsinamerica.org/

    "Colonial Jews were so few in number that their history could be safely ignored were it not for two things. The society they encountered in the colonies offered a welcome contrast to the intolerance and hostility that had characterized the Jewish experience in Europe over the preceding centuries. That alone made the British colonies of North America a remarkable exception in the saga of the Jewish Diaspora. Even more important, though they could not know it, was that they were preparing the way for hundreds of thousands who would later take part in one of the most dynamic and significant chapters of the Jewish story.----JOHN G. FOX"

    But the point is not whether Jews settled No America in numbers great or small. As I read MacDonald, it's his assertion that they were (and remain) uniquely dangerous to white America because of group survival skills honed over millenia as a successful ethnic minority. (Part of his evidence: the Israel lobby.)

    It's an old argument: that Anglo Saxons are the only group prohibited from asserting and protecting their racial identity. And there's a reason for that: it's all those black U.S. presidents. Think about it: Black American presidents from Washington to George W. Bush--and especially James Madison, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight Eisenhower? All of them hated the white man and used the power of the presidency to keep him down.
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    Within every good lie there are elements of the truth. And, with all respect to Robert Frost: We dance around in a circle and suppose but the truth sits in the center and knows.
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    When you live your life as a WASP, only to find out that you are mostly jewish (and completely jewish of abiding by jewish law) and you find out that yes, the reason your greatgrandfather was snuck out of Russia because they were in fact killing jews ( a little party of death called a pogrom), and you find out later that you can't research your family's history because they changed their names to sound less jewish. It all culminates in the feeling that because I have a german last name, i can "pass" just as light skin african-americans once did. So riddle me this...are we still this concerned about "the jew factor?" are people afraid? are they curious? am i different now that i know of my heritage? and one question that i am starting to wonder...are people jealous?
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    You know, you only know what you know. Some people say you know more than you know. You just do not know you know more than you know. I say no, you know. Some people say you know less than you know. You just think you know, you know, more than you know. You know, I say no. You only know what you know, you know.
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    Check out the Women's Studies Student Association's statement regarding this prof.
    http://www.csulb.edu/org/college/wssa/
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