I guess the Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport Hotel is hard up for bucks if it’s decided that hosting a conference for white supremacists is a good business move.
The three-star Herndon, Virginia hotel will welcome the benign-sounding American Renaissance Conference (no, I’m not linking) Feb. 22-Feb. 24. Subtitled “In the Name of Our People,” attendees can gather for an extraordinary weekend on “racial-realist thought” (I guess the whole supremacy thing has fallen out of favor). Read about it and see some of the speakers after the jump.
Stellar speakers include (click to enlarge):In all parts of the world, whites are afraid to speak out in their own interests. Racial differences in IQ, the costs of “diversity,” the challenges of non-white immigration-politicians and the media dare not discuss what these things mean for whites and their civilization.
We are different. We believe these are vital questions.
This conference will be an opportunity to hear some of the most courageous academics, journalists, political figures, and scientists of our time discuss the forces that will determine our future. This will be a remarkable group of speakers and guests-undeceived, outspoken, and committed to the defense of Western Civilization.
Here’s a clip of Jared Taylor of American Renaissance on the Queen Latifah show on racial profiling. Taylor is also on the board of the Council of Conservative Citizens, another white supremacist organization that was started by former members of the segregationist Citizens Councils of America, commonly known as the “White Citizen’s Council.” The Southern Poverty Law Center has covered that group’s activities and affiliations for years, including pols cozy to the CCC, including Trent Lott.
Interestingly, Taylor has rejected anti-Semitism, and courts “European Jews” to participate in his race fests. This earned him the ire of David Duke, and caused a schism in the movement back in 1994.
In separate interviews with the Intelligence Report, numerous “academic racists” complained of the neo-Nazi element at the conference.How sick is that alliance? It’s tragic that members of any group persecuted by an organization with a history tied to the KKK would lie down with the dogs of the white supremacy movement.• Michael Levin, a Jewish philosophy professor at the City University of New York who has spoken four times at American Renaissance conferences, said that there was “anti-Semitism among members of AR” and that this was part of the reason he did not attend the 2006 edition. (However, Levin still plugs his black-bashing book, Why Race Matters, in ads in American Renaissance.)
…• Gordon Baum, the St. Louis-based CEO of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, has Taylor on his editorial board and fights to preserve the “racial integrity” of white people. But, he said, the CCC welcomes Jews. And, adding that the CCC has no interest in “skinheads,” Baum rapped Duke for believing that “race isn’t even important, all that is important is the Jewish issue.”
…Responding to a letter from a group of supporters including several Jews, he posted a statement to his website that seemed to take clear sides. Under the title, “Jews and American Renaissance,” Taylor said that Jews “have a valuable role” to play, and told those who didn’t agree that they had the choice of “staying home” or of keeping their anti-Semitism private. He wrote that American Renaissance’s role is to rescue white civilization, not dig up a “Jewish conspiracy.” And Taylor explicitly rebuked Duke, saying his “disgraceful behavior” would not be tolerated in the future.
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Sadly, Jews are not immune from racism.
Michael Levin? Isn’t that the same yahoo profiled in Backlash who, Instapundit-like, brags about how how traditional and feminine his non-traditional, exceptionalist wife is?
I saw Taylor on Donahue in 2003 IIRC. Oh, he says hes a “white sepratist” not a white supremacist. But since any separation of races would cause widespread violence, its really a distinction without a difference.
Whats with the IQ obsession anyway? Jews and Asians score the highest on those tests, and I don’t think they have much love lost for either group.
“Whats with the IQ obsession anyway? Jews and Asians score the highest on those tests, and I don’t think they have much love lost for either group.”
It provides cover: “see, we’re realists, not racists. We even admit that Jews and Asians have high IQ’s!”
So what is with academic racism? how does an real academic institution tolerate racism that is taught by a professor?. How does a racist PhD candidate get a doctorate that supports racist theories, are they all graduating from the Dumb ass University ?
It provides cover: “see, we’re realists, not racists. We even admit that Jews and Asians have high IQ’s!”
You think after admitting that, they would welcome Jewish and Asian immigration to the United States, but they don’t. They’re complete hypocrites.
At least places like Gene Xpression that also have an obsession with IQ are consistent. They state that they welcome Asian, Jewish, East Indian etc. immigration. Or for that matter, skilled immigration from Latin America and Africa.
It’s because they distinguish themselves in a totally unrelated academic field, get tenure, and can then spout racist garbage with no fear of losing their jobs. It’s one of the disadvantages of the tenure system (which I support as a whole, BTW—you’ve just got to take the bad with the good).Slightly off-topic, but are Jews really an ethnic group anyway? I thought they were (mostly, typically) Eastern-European derived people — no different from Christian people within the same regions. Do Eastern European Christians score extra-high on IQ tests? I’m not sure, but I doubt it; wouldn’t that be fairly conclusive evidence that IQ scores are primarily a function of cultural forces? And do dirt-poor Asians score high on IQ tests, or only middle-class Asians and those who emigrate to the West (who would typically, in part at their families’ behest, pursue higher education and a life in some profession or another)? Would a beggar on the streets of Bombay make a better engineer than an African-American daughter of professors?
Well, my points are perhaps too obvious, but I don’t see how anyone could perceive these assholes’ theses as scholastically tenable. BTW, that “Fred Reed” character just looks super-credible.
And do dirt-poor Asians score high on IQ tests, or only middle-class Asians and those who emigrate to the West (who would typically, in part at their families’ behest, pursue higher education and a life in some profession or another)?
Well, the poorest of the poor east Asians–the Hmong–have gone from being at the bottom of academic achievement to having test scores slightly higher than native born whites within the space of a generation.
So are there cultural forces at work? Aboslutely.
Most of the white supre… er, *realists*, will tell you that the high IQ of these groups is due to their selective breeding habits (i.e. Jews and Asians mostly keep to their own race). This is why ‘Whites’ should do the same. They will rarely utter the words, but basically academic racists are convinced that the majority of so-called Whites are too mongrelized to be of any use. The contempt top members of groups like, say, National Vanguard have for poor whites is second only to their pandering to these same people’s prejudice for personal gains. They view the skinheads and more violent WP types as useful tools to bash some non-whites around, but after the revolution comes they will probably be part of the first purge designed to increase the purity of the racial stock. Let’s just say the term ‘white trash’ is a common epithet amongst the more academic or upper class racists, even if they make sure never to utter it in the presence of someone who might take offense and be of use in the struggle.
Yes — I believe you are referring to the Hmong who emigrated to North America after Vietnam — they came from either Thailand? or Cambodia? Can’t remember, but the point is that high cultural valuation of education + educational opportunity = IQ. There’s a specific mindset among certain immigrant populations — Asians and, well, Jews quite notably — that make them very high achievers.
Ultimately, the IQ test is bullshit. There’s something Nazi-ish about the whole damn construct, if you ask me, which of course you didn’t.
Folks should also note that test scores go DOWN for Asian groups with each subsequent generation in this country (and, no, it isn’t because of outmarriage….).
Ultimately, the IQ test is bullshit. There’s something Nazi-ish about the whole damn construct, if you ask me, which of course you didn’t.
Actually, you wouldn’t be far off. The original IQ test was designed to keep Jews out of law and medical school.
Folks should also note that test scores go DOWN for Asian groups with each subsequent generation in this country (and, no, it isn’t because of outmarriage….).
Thats like Hispanic crime rates. They are very low for first generation–including illegal–immigrants. Then they spike up in the second and third generation, then go down a bit followed by a flat-line.
Why isn’t Will Saletan on the list of speakers? He must be very disappointed.
I dimly recall that this is not unusual for immigrant groups and that this is one model of acculturation.
Hey, it worked for the Irish and the Italians.
(Full disclosure: I am both Irish and Italian (plus some German, English, and who the hell knows what else).
Are Jews really an ethnic group? In order to defend against possible trolling, I’m simply going to refer you to a well regarded work on the topic.
This is not the place to give an ethnic history of Judaism, which is slightly off topic from this post.
You can probably find better answers than I can say in the book
Judaism as a Civilization by Kaplan. It is somewhat hard to find, though. Look in a library instead of a bookstore.
More on point - this is a new strategy of racist groups to include Jews in their hate program. Don’t worry - the vast majority of us are not buying. You see a milder form of trying to include Jews in programs of intolerance in the far right’s using “Judeo-Christian values” slogan. Make no mistake - it’s Christian values they’re selling.
Pam - you’re absolutely right to suggest that most Jews want no part of a program of organized intolerance.
Pam wrote:
Perhaps no one connected with the hotel checked on the group, or perhaps they have an absolute non-discrimination policy which prevents them from denying a venue to anyone who can pay and is not involved in an illegal activity.
Dana, is there nothing related to racism some way that you won’t defend or try to discount?
I’m wondering you actually acknowledge the existence of racism in America at all, or if you, like your pal Tony Snow, believe that all racism was eliminated (by magic or something) somewhere between the Civil Rights movement of the 60’s and now…?
You see a milder form of trying to include Jews in programs of intolerance in the far right’s using “Judeo-Christian values” slogan.
And yet, ironically, that phrase was coined by a pre-WWII German anti-Semite who was trying to get Germans to give up Christianity on the basis that it had Jewish roots and therefore was intrinsically corrupt.
Thanks, I’ll look for that book. I can pretty well surmise that Jews didn’t historically marry outside their faith and are therefore something of a special case. The secular aspects of Jewish culture are sure as hell Eastern European in character. Kosher food is essentially Russian and Yiddish is essentially German, just as two very basic examples.
And anecdotally, the Armenian side of my family always reminded me of something out of a Woody Allen movie. (Being from the unglamorous parts of the NYC sprawl probably had something to do with that, too.)
The original IQ test was designed to keep Jews out of law and medical school.
Yeah, that worked.
Can anyone refer me to a text (article, book, or study) that details the history of the IQ test? I’m looking for more specific information as to racism within these tests and the racism behind it.
I never took an IQ test; I think my mom distrusted white guys telling her (or me, for that matter) how “inherently” smart I was. Go figure.
Mike: I didn’t defend racism; I simply suggested that the hotel might not have checked the convention or might have rules which do not allow the hotel to deny any convention that isn’t doing something actually illegal.
I don’t think much of the conference, though they have a right to say any fool thing they wish.
Ugh, Rushton is in the news again? I’m a student at UWO, and yeah, he’s a source of unending shame to all of us.
“Mike: I didn’t defend racism; I simply suggested that the hotel might not have checked the convention or might have rules which do not allow the hotel to deny any convention that isn’t doing something actually illegal.”
Dana, I don’t know if you’re a racist or not. But when the first comment you make is something that amounts to giving the hotel a pass for some reason or other - it don’t smell good.
“I don’t think much of the conference, though they have a right to say any fool thing they wish.”
THAT’s more like it.
We all agree they have the right to be stupid people with odious ideas. I think we agree they have a right to share their stupid opinions with the rest of us (while we also have the right to walk away, call them idiots, etc.)
Now we can discuss whether they should be sharing those opinions in a “conference” at a hotel, and whether that hotel would ever like to have business from decent people again, etc.
By rights, they should be spouting their nonsense from some corner of a park somewhere, while a counter “conference” of decent people stands nearby and screams about them being racists…
I can pretty well surmise that Jews didn’t historically marry outside their faith and are therefore something of a special case. The secular aspects of Jewish culture are sure as hell Eastern European in character. Kosher food is essentially Russian and Yiddish is essentially German, just as two very basic examples.
Ah, but you’re making the common mistake of assuming that all Jews are Ashkanazi, ie are from Eastern Europe. There are also Sephardic Jews, who are a distinct group from the Mediterranean with their own language, Ethopian Jews, etc.
The Ashkanazi are the most numerous in the US, but they’re definitely not the only ones, so when people talk about “the Jews,” they need to be more specific.
Actually, Dana might be right, in that their title sounds like they’re some sort of Renaissance dorkfest. It’s remotely possible their booking agent sucks and they’re expecting a bunch of people dressed in velour capes and selling fantasy art.
If that’s the case, a few phone calls and letters might cause them to discover that they’re overbooked. If it doesn’t, then they’re assholes, and Pandagonians who have any say in where their own industry conferences are held or business travelers stay know who to blacklist.
I’d just like to point out that IQ tests are, while not quite notoriously, can be very unreliable - like any standardized test, its simple for those designing the test to choose questions that those from particular backgrounds would be unable to relate to, and therefore fail.
Also, most IQ tests are designed to predict future academic achievement.
Point taken, Mnemosyne. I was being North Americacentric. In any event, it’s the Ashkanazi Jews that are credited with having statistically high IQs.
No word on Armenians, but my Aunt Azniv always claimed they were damn clever.
What always gets me about the racial-profiling-is-ok-cause-the-coloreds-commit-most-of-the-crimes idea is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once you start focusing on arresting mostly blue people then you shouldn’t be surprised to see that mostly blue people are getting convicted. It’s fairly unusual to be convicted of a crime (and thus show up in the crime stats) if you haven’t first been arrested…
Godmonkey, just off the top, there are also African Jews (I believe the Ethiopian Jews in particular don’t count as either Ashkenazic or Sephardic) and Indian Jews. By these people’s standards, Indian Jews must get a twofer.
My one Israeli friend has both Ashkenazic and Sephardic roots, whatever that makes him, except (as he says) “a real Sabra.”
God, Rushton embarrasses me. I’m an alum of UWO. (Hi, Mike.) My only consolation in the matter is thinking about how much the recent local influx of nonwhite immigrants must drive him crazy…
As a follow-up to my prior post - please wear your sarcasm suits when reading:
For those who don’t know, Jews were frequently accused of poisoning the water sources of non-Jews. For these guys, adding a bit of laxative to the punch might have been the one time such an act would be appropriate! And they’d never return to that hotel again.
@ Mnemosyne : could you give me the name of this anti-semite who coined that phrase? I found your tidbit interesting. I appreciate your filling in that gap in my knowledge of history.
I live in that neck of the woods[*], so if I have time and the inclination I might drop by. Not to attend the conference, mind you, but just to let the kitchen staff know who will be enjoying their catering. I’m sure that the white anglo-saxon protestants preparing the food would be sure to take extra-special care to ensure that the highest standards of hygiene were met in the preparation of the food and drink for their erstwhile defenders.
[*] actually Dunn Loring, aka “Macacastan”
@ Mnemosyne : could you give me the name of this anti-semite who coined that phrase? I found your tidbit interesting. I appreciate your filling in that gap in my knowledge of history.
I was hoping to Google it, but no such luck. I’ll have to take a look through my library at home and see if I can track it down. I have a vague memory that it was in Bram Dijkstra’s Evil Sisters since he spent a lot of time on literature, but I could be wrong. It definitely dates no earlier than 1899.
The original IQ test was designed to keep Jews out of law and medical school.
Do you have a cite for that? It’s one I’ve never heard before.
What ethnicities make up the Jewish people depends upon your definition of ethnicity. Since the construct is merely an arbitrary, pseudobiological distinction that humans make up for political (i.e., selfish and self-serving) reasons, there really isn’t much point to working very hard in the endeavor. Our nation couldn’t give two damp shits about, say, Christians who happen to be a) brown and b) overseas. Race trumps religion in our hiearchy. White Jews will be “white” for non anti-semites, while brown Jews will be “other.”
Rob:
FWIW, the Wikipedia article says no such thing.
NOOC:
Thorny question. When I’m filling out a form that has a “race” section, I check “white.” But when people ask me about my ancestry, I usually answer with some variation of “Eastern European Jewish” — in the interest of full disclosure, it’s mixed Russian/Polish on my dad’s side (my paternal grandmother was born in Poland and my paternal great-grandfather came from somewhere in Russia, but we don’t know when or exactly whence) and mostly Romanian on my mom’s (but American for at least three or four generations) — but to be honest, my idea of what that label is supposed to mean is pretty nebulous.
When pressed, I describe myself more specifically as a Jewish atheist, because in my mind those two words describe different things. I think of “Jewishness” as a socio-cultural affiliation rather than a religious or ethnic one.
Well, if there’s any justice, the Latino cooking staff will spit in the food they cook for the American Renaissance conference attendees.
A decade ago I was heavily involved in the immigration restrictionist movement. I attended a get together in Washington D.C. called Immigration Reform Awareness Week. Our dinner speaker was Martin Gross, who proceeded to devote most of his talk to bashing Mexico and Mexican people. While he was ranting and raving, I was looking around the reception room and noted the Latino staff members standing quietly to the side and I suddenly thought to myself “I wonder what they’re making of all this?”
After a couple of years I left the movement. One of the clinchers for me was when several members of the local group to which I belonged openly wished for an economic recession because during such times anti-immigration sentiment tends to be higher. I thought “How morally bankrupt is that? To wish financial hardship on your own countrymen just so that they will be more receptive to your message!”
Tommykey - welcome to the light side of the force! It takes real guts and commitment to reason to switch sides like that. kudos to you!
The secular aspects of Jewish culture are sure as hell Eastern European in character.
As Mnemnosyne already pointed out, Sephardic, Mizrahi and Ethopian Jews (to name a few) would be pretty surprised to hear that the Ashenazim have a lock on “Jewish secular culture”. It’s what you most commonly associate with Jews in the US because there have been many German and Eastern European Jews who came here early on.
that video makes my stomach turn.
Me Ess wrote:
A hotel is a public accommodation, and there are anti-discrimination laws which apply to public accommodations. While those laws are a bit weaker when it comes to renting meeting rooms than sleeping rooms, I can see why a hotel (especially a lawyered up chain) would simply remove all discretion from the management, and require that anyone who can pay who isn’t trying to do something actually illegal has to be accommodated.
Thing is, there are all sorts of opinions out there — and if this chain had had the discretion to refuse to rent to this particular advocacy group, why couldn’t another one refuse to rent to a same-sex couple celebrating their civil union? It really does cut both ways.
I have absolutely no problem with people saying that the conventioneers are idiots; that’s an exercise in free speech as far as I am concerned. I’m just pointing out that it’s a poor case to blame the hotel where they are gathered.
Godmonkey wrote:
Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: did Eastern European Jews marry almost exclusively from within their own culture because that was what their culture told them to do, or was it because the larger Christian cultures surrounding them didn’t want their children to have much interaction with the Jewish communities, or were both things in part responsible?
Tommykey wrote:
You do realize that such would be a crime, and might even be a felony in some states.
“Thing is, there are all sorts of opinions out there — and if this chain had had the discretion to refuse to rent to this particular advocacy group, why couldn’t another one refuse to rent to a same-sex couple celebrating their civil union? It really does cut both ways.”
If the Grand Dragon of the KKK wanted to have a dinner in honor of George Lincoln Rockwell at the same hotel, would that be just another expression of 1st Amendment rights and perfectly okay with you? What if they were openly advocating the extermination of all catholics (which you are, as I recall, Mr. Pico)?
A gay couple celebrating an anniversary are not advocating hate. They are not seeking to limit the rights of others.
OTOH, racists and other bigots ARE advocating hate, either by implication, or far more overtly.
I think this is where the US needs a “speakers’ corner” like the British. A place where any lunatic can spout of any nonsensical droolings about any subject they want, as long as they stay civil. (Perhaps the Internet could be considered the modern equivalent.)
I don’t want to take away anybody’s right to be an ass. I just don’t want the hate to spread any further than necessary…
“You do realize that such would be a crime, and might even be a felony in some states.”
My god, Dana, do you have to take everything so literally? Chill out - Tommykey was talking about cosmic justice, not advocating literal action…
How many times do I have to cop to being North-Americacentric? You are right. In my defense, I again point out that it is the Ashkanazim who, apparently, have statistically high IQs, and so are relevant to the discussion at hand.
My point was that this is clearly a result of their culture, not their ethnicity, since their basic ethnicity is shared with non-Jews.
Just to back up Godmonkey here: the Ashkenazim are (or were up until around the twentieth century) a very distinct group. To quote Wikipedia:
The isolation is the reason that Ashkenazim are susceptible to so many weird hereditary diseases such as Tay-Sachs; it’s quite rare for any ethnic group to be that large and to maintain its borders for so long.Also, IQ tests were originally designed to identify children in need of remedial help in school. They were later adapted to place people on the Great Chain of Being, but it’s very much not what they were originally made for, and Binet would be horrified to see it. Quoting The Mismeasure of Man, an excellent source on the topic:
White supremacists are always their own best counter-argument. Pathetic losers with nothing to brag about but their susceptibility to sunburn and malaria…
I thought the original IQ tests were developed to screen US draftees in WWI… and that a lot of the early eugenecist literature came out of the results of those tests.I can see why a hotel (especially a lawyered up chain) would simply remove all discretion from the management, and require that anyone who can pay who isn’t trying to do something actually illegal has to be accommodated
That chain should fire its existing lawyers, then, and “lawyer up” with attorneys who know what they’re talking about. Big chain hotels are more than capable of developing guidelines for their hospitality departments. I rather doubt those guidelines say “OMFG, unless they’re going to burn the place down please rent to them or they might sue us.”
To quote Wikipedia
Well, there’s your problem.
But far from unprecedented: there’s nothing at all unusual about discovering a white supremacist who also believes himself to be a devout Roman Catholic. Nor is it unusual to discover recent immigrants from Eastern Europe in US white supremacist organizations.