Race realist Jared Taylor,writing at American Thinker, says what I’ve often said here and at EPJ:
“There are powerful organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, that do their best to silence me. If I am on a television or radio program, they call the producer to explain that despite my reasonable tone I am a ‘hate-monger’ who must not be allowed on the air again. If they learn that I have been invited to give a talk, they call the organization that invited me and try to persuade it to cancel the talk.
“At first, I was astonished by this kind of thuggery. Americans claim to be devoted to free speech, but they are not. It is disgraceful that organizations whose purpose is not to refute their opponents but simply to squash and silence them have any credibility at all. And yet the media routinely cite these groups as if they were so blissfully wise that they can read my mind and tell you what I really think.
“People who immigrated from the Soviet Union were amazed to find that Americans are more afraid of the ‘diversity’ regime than Russians were of the Communists. And at least under the Soviets there was a clear enemy: the censors and the secret police. In America — the land of the free — every man is his own commissar.”
When they are not abruptly cancelled, Taylor’s appearances on campus have been disrupted. When the organization tried to place ads in more than a dozen college newspapers saying simply “Is diversity a strength? We think not. For an alternate view: AmRen.com,” no paper would run the ad. New Century Foundation holds an annual conference in April. This year’s is the 25th through 27th, outside Nashville. In 2010 and 2011 it was scrubbed at the last minute because of threats to the hotels hosting the events. The website was taken down by hackers just last Sunday.
Though his first two books had received glowing reviews from the likes of the Wall Street Journal and sold well, two agents were unable to find a publisher for White Identity. NCF published the book. Taylor is not in bad company: the foundation is the publisher of what is easily the best book on Affirmative Action in college, law and medical school admissions, The Affirmative Action Hoax by former Professor of Classics at University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, Steven Farron. But Taylor’s book has not received the attention it would have if it had been released by a commercial press.
Even those who question the viability of White nationalism or disagree with it in principle, and who would argue that creed is more important than color and that they would rather spend an evening with Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, etc. than with any White liberal, have to be troubled by the machinations of the P.C. regime.
The First Amendment was the first Amendment for a reason. It will not be defended in federal courts until a Republican President is willing to appoint judges who respect the Constitution. I’m told there are a few out there.
In the meantime, those who value free speech ought to think about doing what they can to retire the word “racist.” A member of La Raza is not a racist; a European-American who questions preferential treatment for minorities is. The word is a slur, with all the sophistication and precision of “commie” or “Nazi.” Today it says more about the intelligence of the accuser than the sins of the accused.”