SPLC’s Inquisition Against Dr. Kevin MacDonald

Posted by James Bowery on Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:48.

The Daily 49er reports that:

A representative from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights firm based in Alabama that tracks hate groups, will visit the campus starting today [Nov 13—JAB] to investigate the writings of Cal State Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald and to write a report for its publication, Intelligence Report.

His heresy?

“MacDonald is producing work, especially his trilogy on the Jews, that’s being used as propaganda by Neo-Nazis and other extremists to prove their point that Jews are a cancer on America society,” said Heidi Beirich, deputy director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report and the representative who will be on campus investigating MacDonald through Wednesday. “His work is finding a home with the Neo-Nazis.”

Note, they aren’t even challenging MacDonald’s work (A People that Shall Dwell Alone, Separation and Its Discontents, The Culture of Critique and Understanding Jewish Influence) here—they are impugning the morality of the use to which it is being put by some groups.  Nor is this failure to challenge MacDonald’s work unique to this passage—it is characteristic of those attacking his work.  Rather they attack the fact that some groups find it useful for their propaganda.

The SPLC seems to operate under the presumption that the truth is irrelevant.

Addendum:  Dr. MacDonald has now posted a VDARE article responding to this attack on academic freedom.

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Posted by southern poverty on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:13 | #

Has anyone else noticed that since the following was made public and put online:

http://charlestonvoice.netfirms.com/DeesSleazeI.htm

Potok and Beirich have replaced Dees as the “official face” of the SPLC?

A coincidence I guess…....


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Posted by Alexander on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:29 | #

SPLC is filled with mullato scum with indentity crisis and Jews.

If only we could get these blacks out of poverty, their IQ’s would go up to white levels? Hahah, no they’ll buy more chrome rims and teeth. How repugnant.

Blacks are a Jew proxy and they don’t even know it, the first step to throwing both of them off is throwing the desert religion off our backs. The religion of slaves.

Otherwise the Aryan destiny is to be cuckholded by blacks and browns,  and to be replaced intellectually by AI.


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Posted by J Richards on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:53 | #

Alexander,

You are a troll and not welcome.  Stop commenting here!


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Posted by Fred Scrooby on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:52 | #

I heartily second J. Richards.


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Posted by Fred Scrooby on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:53 | #

He’s not just a troll, but somehow an especially creepy one.  The guy makes my skin crawl.  Please, Alexander, just go away.


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Posted by Get lost troll on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:28 | #

“SPLC is filled with mullato scum”

By “mulatto scum” do you mean the Italian man-beast hybrids you were theorizing about yesterday? Please elaborate.

Wait I’m kidding. We don’t really care about your theories.


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Posted by Horrific Grunting Brute on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:40 | #

It seems that the only social science academics willing to defend MacDonald have been Frank Salter and David Sloan Wilson; see here:

http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/review-salter.html

The following are some relevant excerpts from Salter’s review:

“Most readers of this Bulletin will be aware of the controversy that embroiled ISHE member Kevin MacDonald at the recent annual meeting of our kindred organization, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). At a special session MacDonald was charged with anti-Semitism and his scientific standing questioned. Any review must now be counted as contributing to that controversy since it bears on MacDonald’s status as a scholar and evolutionary psychologist. With this in mind I decided to combine the book review with a description of the recent controversy concerning The Culture of Critique among human evolutionists. I shall be arguing that much of the criticism of MacDonald is founded on ignorance of his scholarship and a confounding of political and scientific issues….Apart from the political sensitivity of the subject, much of the problem facing MacDonald is that his knowledge is often too far ahead of his detractors to allow easy communication; there are not enough shared premises for constructive dialog. Unfortunately the knowledge gap is closing slowly because some of his most hostile critics, including colleagues who make serious ad hominem accusations, have not bothered to read MacDonald’s books. If this sounds incredible, please read on….On a personal note, it is overdue that John Tooby and Steven Pinker applied their professional skills seriously to critique MacDonald’s work in the appropriate scientific forums. This now seems obligatory as a matter of professional duty given the severity of their attack on a colleague who has refrained from ad hominems throughout this sorry event.  Still,  it is now too late to reverse the harm done to both MacDonald’s and probably HBES’s reputation by what can only be judged reckless, unscholarly, and plain uncivil slurs. For these they should apologize….In response to Shulevitz, David S. Wilson (Slate 25 Jan. 2000) supports MacDonald based on a reading of his first volume, noting that he is engaged in developing a general theory of groups taking Judaism as an example. In what must be the understatement of the new millennium, Wilson attributes unscientific motives to MacDonald’s HBES critics: ‘t is shameful how quickly those who are sensitive to being demonized are willing to demonize others. Even evolutionary psychologists, who have experienced their share of persecution in academic circles, seem more concerned to protect their own reputations than to defend the work of their colleague.’ …It is one thing to question a scientist’s political judgment, another to downgrade his status as a scientist and scholar. In the following synopsis of The Culture of Critique I sample each chapter’s main sources. Are they credible? Are MacDonald’s empirical claims well documented? As will become apparent, the sources for many of the claims for which MacDonald has been criticized are mainstream? This raises a certain matter of consistency. If MacDonald but not his sources is to be condemned, logic requires that critics pick on aspects of his analysis that are distinctive to him….Certainly, whether his theories are ultimately viable or not, MacDonald is a scholar of considerable analytical power and scope…Several major aspects are distinctive to MacDonald’s analysis. His is the first historical-sociological application of Boyd and Richerson’s (1985) theory of cultural group strategy, which he elaborates into evolutionary group strategy theory (1st volume). He offers an evolutionary interpretation of Social Identity Theory (2nd volume). I suspect both are destined to become influential. But for me what is most impressive, and this is the achievement of Culture of Critique, MacDonald has shown theoretical and methodological pathways linking the micro-level analysis of human behaviour with the macro-level dynamics of contemporary culture. He has done so on a narrow front, in a monumental case study of social relations affecting one people’s struggle to survive and prosper, but that is a big start.”

Both MacDonald and Salter share the experience that their “signature works” (the Jewish trilogy and ‘On Genetic Interests’, respectively) have met ‘criticism’ that consists of nothing but ad hominem, misinformed nitpicking, outright distortion, and appeals to emotion.  These sorts of ‘arguments’ have typically been so ludicrous that an effective riposte can be thought of in seconds.  There has of yet been no criticism of these works that causes one to sit back, take notice, and say. “wait a minute, that is a serious and troublesome objection; this really needs to be looked at.”

There *is* a reason for that, of course…


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Posted by VanSpeyk on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:46 | #

This is terrible. We should not allow this kind of intimidation to simply pass. In principle we should support academic freedom because it is an important part of our culture. But we must especially be active in defending one of our own, which MacDonald undoubtebly is. Question is, what can we do? I will contact relevant academics in my country and maybe they will, at least, support his right to academic freedom. I read in one of the articles that MacDonald has acces to a lawyer. That is good. Would it be possible for him to sue the SPLC for creating a hostile work enviroment? I recently read about a Black fireman who got over a million dollars because some [White] colleagues pulled a prank on him. Wouldn’t it be great if MacDonald could bleed them for several million which could then be used for our ethnic activism? Let us discuss things that we can do here.


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Posted by Brute on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:22 | #

Van S,
I agree with you.  The question: what can be done?  I am sure that KMacD would love to sue the SPLC, but given the differences in resources there, that may not be practical.  If you have access to academics willing to speak out in defense of academic freedom, that would be helpful. It would seem the best realistic ‘best case scenario’ is that the SPLC takes their best shot at KMacD and he emerges relatively unscathed.

The fact that he is tenured is on his side; without that, he’d be in more serious difficulties.


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Posted by Brute on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:56 | #

What’s fascinating here is the attitude on a college campus that freedom of inquiry and free speech and the pursuit of truth are completely irrelevant - nay, actually negative - if someone comes to believe, and advocate, views contrary to your own.

Strange how the embrace of “diversity” - something that the SPLC’s “tolerance” programs tell us is good - does not include diversity of ideas, the very thing one would expect to be *most* important in a university setting.

But, no.  Unable to actually argue against MacDonald’s ideas, the plan is to punish him for his temerity in researching controversial topics and coming to conclusions that Prof. Butassinger and the SPLC deem “nazi.”

Further, note that the motivation for the SPLC is MacDonald’s participation with TOQ.  Thus, “match made in hell” Butassinger and the SPLC believe they have the right to decide which journals are, or are not, “acceptable” for an academic to publish in.  They do not attempt to refute MacDonald’s TOQ articles; merely, he needs to be punished for submitting mansucripts there.

Will the SPLC investigate Bruce Lahn next? - or does Lahn have a “holy dispensation” due to his Oriental ancestry, and his ‘mea culpa’, saying that some knowledge is not worth knowing.

In the end, how is this different from Galileo and Bruno?


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:54 | #

An interesting snapshot of anti-MacDonald Jewish activism is readily visible in the Amazon reviews of CoC.

There are currently 60 reviews on the page, leaving aside a couple of repeated postings.  Apart from this one by AaronCohen ...

I hope that Gentiles do not read this book.

I wish I could say this book is inaccurate, unscholarly or untrue. But unfortunately, it’s not. It’s factual, well-written and firmly substantiated.

I only hope that those reading this book do not hold all Jewish people responsible for a few bad apples.

... all the dozen or so negative entries but one make no attempt to critique CoC from a factual standpoint.  The exception concentrates on non-harmful issues that MacDonald did not raise, such as gestalt theory.  By the same token, of course, MacDonald does not need to make the case that everything Jews do is harmful.  So even the one seemingly authoritative review is intellectually dishonest.

As for the rest, they are just one form or another of empty charges - the usual garbage - and serve to confirm MacDonald’s central thesis rather tidily.


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Posted by Boris on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:33 | #

GW
Most of the sheep on our midst do not understand what Aron Cohen and I already know. He seems to sense a vulneravility that is refreshing coming from a Jew. Of course like in any race there’s scum and there’s God fearing people. However, the former is the great majority and the last is terribly hard to find, it was so in biblical times and it still holds true today.
To more easily spot the former train your mind to find hipocrisy whenever present and then discount its validity outright. Stop being sheep and start doing things for yourself:ie, don’t go to church so much, instead read the bible 10-20-30 times over. Keep at it and try and come with as many answers yourself as possible, you will not answer them all, but at least they’re your answers.


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Posted by Lurker on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:51 | #

This reminds me of the Frank Ellis business at Leeds uni. A multicult talking head or two earnestly pointed out that what Ellis said had been refuted - but never actually pointed out what exactly had been refuted, how or by who. That silence pretty much puts the lid on it I would have thought.



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