My debt to J Phillipe Rushton (3rd December 1943 – 2nd October 2012)

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:19.

There cannot be many of us who do not owe a debt of gratitude to Phil Rushton, both for his theoretical brilliance, allied to an unswerving devotion in most difficult professional circumstances to the cause of unpopular scientific truths, and for his steadfast, loyal European heart. How much poorer would we all have been had Rushton not possessed these qualities ... had he merely shied away from the race question and lived an ordinary academic’s life, a quiet life, the life of an unquestioning product of his political times.

I did not discover Rushton until early in 2003. It was at that time when I had decided to contribute something to the cause of white survival. There was a particular question which troubled me, and which I saw as holding a key to changing the fortunes of white advocacy. To answer it I needed a crucible, and to get that ... to construct something people would feel worthwhile writing for and reading ... I had to generate some kind of internet presence.

Cue Race, Evolution, and Behaviour. When I came across it at Rushton’s own Darwin site, it had already been published eight years, and Rushton himself had said that he had run out of opponents to debate. I certainly hadn’t, though. I had found what I needed, and promptly devoured it in one sitting, reading in bed until the small hours. For the next fourteen or fifteen months I blasted around the political blogosphere provoking every liberal, every racial egalitarian, every race-denier, every anti-racist I could into a hopeless battle about human differences and hereditarianism (hopeless courtesy of Rushton’s superb analysis), psychometrics, and gene issues generally.

A surprising number of my opponents knew of Rushton, and had a ready put-down - second- or third-hand of course. I do not believe that a single one of them escaped the shredder. REB’s central theory of r/K and child development was just too perfect in its internal fit. Most of the liberal rif-raff, of course, didn’t know about this “controversial” (meaning courageous) Anglo-Canadian psychology professor, born on the Dorset-Hampshire border a couple of miles from my own birthplace and eight years distant in time. They would, in any case, have considered their political truths inviolable to attack by one supposed racist using the theories of another. They never had a chance. There was metaphorical blood everywhere.

Thanks to the carnage I had something to gesture towards when the moment came, in the summer of 2004, to put together a slate of writers for a website to be titled majorityrights.com. I never knew Rushton, and only corresponded with him very briefly. I wish now I had had the opportunity to explain how much I extracted from his thesis and to what purpose I had put it. He would probably have wanted to know, like most scientists, if I had correctly and faithfully represented his thought. The answer was that REB was so beautifully and clearly written, that was an easy task.

There is not another Phil Rushton in this world. White Nationalism has lost a true champion. He did not live nearly long enough - gone at just 68. But for his life and his talents and his work we equally loyal-hearted sons and daughters of old Europe can be extraordinarily grateful. I know I am.

Tags: IQ and Heredity, Obituaries, White Nationalism

Comments:

Posted by White member on Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:14 | #

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/01/oversized-penile-length-in-black-people.html

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2008/07/rushton-and-genital-size-one-more-time.html

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2008/05/racial-differences-in-vaginal.html

Rushton did good work, but promoting stereotypes about black ‘manliness’ wasn’t part of it.

RIP, JPR.

Posted by daniel on Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:04 | #

One of my earliest experiences with the impact of Rushton was when, as I became more active on behalf of Whites, I proposed a wikipedia article - viz. Mulatto Supremacism - only to have it rejected, with one of the particular reasons given for its rejection being that I had cited Rushton, “a known ‘racist’ academic.”

Posted by daniel on October 05, 2012, 07:59 AM | #

Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943–October 2, 2012) carries himself with dignity, integrity and aplomb -

As Political Correctness reaches its heights, Shabbos goy Phil Donohue administers an obscene PC bludgeoning and the audience follows in nightmarish lockstep. American free speech, a sick joke, particularly in those times just prior to the advent of the Internet. Rushton on Donohue 1990:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEFjr1pfaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CsFvcLb1us&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRduoxbH6HA&feature=relmfu

Posted by Nick Dean on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:24 | #

Yea, I remember reading samizdata.net threads to learn from you, GW, how to discuss racial differences in a political context the way I later pored over wintermute and ben tillman’s posts on Jews here.

Certainly Rushton was a rare scholar.

Posted by Graham_Lister on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:10 | #

Off topic but HAD to share this:

A new generation of Auschwitz tattoos is apparently the latest craze!

The descendants of Holocaust survivors who are apparently tattooing their grandparents’ Auschwitz numbers on their own arms.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/audio/2012/oct/16/sounds-jewish-podcast-auschwitz-tattoos

It’s estimated that we Brits (Jews aside) are now collectively sporting 20 million tattoos - and the number is rapidly rising.

On this topic I can only agree with Theodore Dalrymple.

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/demello-dalrymple-2647

In other UK news the number of cases of slavery and people trafficking is on the rise. It seems Gippos – sorry ‘Travellers’ particularly enjoy this growth activity.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/9616787/Sex-and-slave-labour-human-trafficking-on-rise.html

P.S. Bork is of course worth reading but he only gets his analysis partially right.

Posted by Graham_Lister on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:49 | #

The Professor of American History at the University of Aberdeen (UK), is one Prof. Nathan Abrams (and guess what he’s Jewish). He boasts that Jews were the key driving force in promoting (and profiting from) the modern pornographic industry and that their motivation is in part to destroy Gentile morals.

There’s no doubt about it that everyone’s favourite ethnic minority are one of the main driving forces behind the rise of modern pornographic industry.

http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38

Not news I guess but interesting that it’s directly from the horse’s mouth so to speak.

Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:40 | #

Thanks Nick. Glad some memory of those happy times still obtains. The other hereditarian working the circuit at that time was Charles Copeland, who I am sure you will also remember. I met Charles once, and he was a good guy. I would have liked him to write here under a suitable handle, but he wasn’t comfortable with the racial emphasis.

Charles and I were banned at the same time from Perry de Havilland’s site, around May 2003. The third banning was of WJ Phillips, who was a wonderfully fluent conservative traditionalist and High Church type with a wicked line in racialism! I think he was present on the threads here in a couple of guises, most notably as Effra.

Did you comment at Samizdata yourself?

Posted by Lurker on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:15 | #

Nick, are you going to update that blog of yours? Last entry May 2011, Im still linking to it anyhow.

And what happened to WJ Phillips? He stormed off in a huff from here and seemed to disappear eveywhere else at the same time.

Posted by Desmond Jones on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:40 | #

JP Rushton and David Suzuki debate at the University of Western Ontario, London ON,
February 8th, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FGHtfnYWY

Posted by Al Ross on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:40 | #

A measure of Rushton’s academic distinction was his possession of a higher doctorate ( DSc ) from London University. This degree is not an honorary one. An independent panel must review the long - term contributions of a suitable applicant for such a degree to be awarded.

Posted by Guessedworker on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:56 | #

Graham,

Abrams and the Jewish interest in pornographizing gentile sex has been discussed a few times here. I have written about it twice:

http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/the_jewish_quarterly_on_porn

http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/jewish_porn_christian_virtue_pagan_love_european_nature

... and it has cropped up in various pieces down the years.

Posted by uKn_Leo on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:09 | #

***Generation Identaire***

Members have occupied a mosque (several dozen - rooftop protest).

They are demanding an end to mosque building and Islamic immigration.

Footage available on LiveLeak only at the moment.

Posted by uKn_Leo on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:28 | #

Protest is in Poitiers.

Posted by uKn_Leo on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:32 | #

Footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvIcrpnZUYI

Posted by uKn_Leo on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:41 | #

http://europenews.dk/en/node/60076

Posted by Nick Dean on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:30 | #

I’m sure I must have chipped in once or twice at samizdata, GW, but not in any regular way. I remember Copeland being in the sidebar for a long time with Gabb and Il Ragno. Il Ragno’s no-show was by far the greater loss.

Lurker, when I found google books was starting to publish online a lot of the useful book excerpts I intended to post at Songlight for Dawn I seemed a bit redundant. Had a major hard drive meltdown too.

Posted by Al Ross on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:20 | #

WJ Phillips also posted wonderful barbs under the nickname ‘Amalek’ directed, aptly enough ,at the Chosenites, GW.

Il Ragno’s baroque wit may be enjoyed here -

http://stumbleinn.net/ragno/reader.html

Posted by Dutton discusses his bio of Rushton on Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:10 | #

Dutton discusses his (unflattering) biography of Rushton

Edward Dutton Interview: J. Philippe Rushton: A Life History Perspective