For the record, William L. Pierce died a mere 20 years ago. His evil lives on in the racially motivated murders committed by his followers.
OH, NO YOU CAN FIND explicit references to Darwinism, citing Darwin and his theory of natural selection as the scientific inspiration and/or support for vicious, white supremacy, fascism and racism all over the place, right now, in politics and in the most respectable of academic, university science based on natural selection. As a starter:
Charles Darwin, in his study of the changing and evolving character of all life forms, demonstrated that principles of heredity combined with what he called, Natural Selection, had developed the exceptional abilities of mankind itself. His masterpiece, Origin of Species has a subtitle that expresses his whole idea in a nutshell; The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
David Duke: 1998: My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding, Free Speech Press, Covington, LA
Unfortunately, for the many of Darwin's defenders who don't realize that whenever the concept of natural selection from its conception and the subtitle that was so pleasing to the celebrity neo-Nazi, Klansman, white supremacist, the conception that it led to the "preservation of favoured races" A CONCEPT THAT CERTAINLY INCLUDES THE NON-PRESERVATION OF RACES HELD TO BE "UNFAVOURED," which is the goal of neo-Nazis, klansmen and white supremacists, is present whenever the concept of natural selection is used because its imagined engine of progress runs on the deaths of those it imagines as "unfavoured". You don't have to say "Darwin" or "Darwinism" or make reference to The Origin of Species or any of the more infamous titles in that line of intellectual culture such as The Descent of Man to be depending on Darwinism, which is natural selection. Death is always part of natural selection, no matter how covering that up might be in the temporary interest of the person using the concept.
That certainly doesn't stop, it doesn't even stop when a less acceptable form of racism is being promoted using it, certainly that is the case all through the literature of Sociobology and Evolutionary Psychology. David Duke is a huge fan, I would imagine to the embarrassment of E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins. And the entire field of that science, based entirely on natural selection is never remote from such associations. I've gone over how the belatedly infamous Kevin MacDonald was sustained by current, modern academic science, within a modern American university even as he published book after book, article after article Darwinistically presenting overt antisemetic stereotyping as science. Even after his alleged demotion out of the status of science, he's still got his champions among modern, academically acceptable science.
Here's a bit from a piece published in 2018 supporting Kevin MacDonald's antisemetic science published, not in some neo-fascist, neo-Nazi journal but in Evolutionary Psychology Science, published by the prominent science publishing firm Springer and with a roster of editorial staff and board members that proves it is directly in the heart of mainstream science based on Darwinism, natural selection.
[Kevin] MacDonald argues that Jews wish to destabilise gentile institutions by showing that all peoples are equal. Cofnas observes that there are many Jews involved in research that supports hereditarianism regarding group differences in psychology,which undermines what MacDonald regards as the Jewish aim. If we accept that the more plausible hypothesis is that Jews strongly act in their ethnic interests, then this finding can be explained by the very high intelligence of Jewish people. It has been argued that intelligence is negatively associated with many evolved instincts, including ethnocentrism (see Dutton and Van der Linden2017). So, even despite the relatively highly group-selected nature of Jews, there would be a relatively high raw number of them who would be sufficiently intelligent so as to be able to rise above such biases. And these people, with a concomitant very high level of the trait Intellect (which positively correlates with IQ), would there-fore be found in areas of research which were true yet‘controversial’(because they questioned received norms) and which were not necessarily in their group interests. Indeed,this‘raw numbers’ model would potentially even explain why—if it so—Jews may be over-represented in intellectual or political movements which MacDonald would argue would be in opposition to their group interests, though it would be interesting to discern a possible difference in magnitude.
My first inclination would be to inspect the scientific rigor of the sources of the clear stereotypical ideas all of this is based in because I would bet it is as corrupted as the natural-selection based science of Galton, Pearson and Fisher that was discussed in the critique of their allegedly objective numbers crunching in that article I linked to last week. Yet that is what this science good enough to be published in such an eminently refereed scientific journal is, published to the same scientific standards that allowed the clearly antisemetic work of MacDonald to maintain his career within science for many decades in the post-Nazi era. During the all too brief interruption between Jim Crow eras.
Lest someone who doesn't bother to read the whole article miss it, Edward Dutton comes out firmly on the side of the infamous Kevin MacDonald.
In conclusion, Cofnas argues, in effect, that the default position should be Jewish high intelligence, and this explanation for Jewish involvement in intellectual movements should be the null hypothesis. I believe the opposite may be true. The default position should be MacDonald’s thesis and it should be treated as the null hypothesis. But it behoves us to be cautious of it, as with any such theory. Those who are so certain of the veracity of a theory that they subject one who tries to calmly critique it to personal abuse should perhaps think about that.
Such is the tender regard of pampered faculty members for their own that even as they promulgate science based in ultimately negative stereotypes which has, in still living memory, cost millions of lives, as modern science, we are to treat them with a pose of objectivity and non-judgement. Even as their science is obviously based in the vilest and basest of subjective interest and intent.
Oh, and lest you might like to know, who Edward Dutton - respected enough in science, now, to get published in such a science journal - is . . . well, there's this article about him:
After Aberdeen, Dutton became a university teacher at Oulu in Finland. He was dismissed a few years later having plagiarised a student’s dissertation in a co-written piece with Richard Lynn. Lynn, it should be noted, is a eugenicist who advocates for the “phasing out” of certain races (no points for guessing which ones). You’ll sense a recurring theme with the kind of people Dutton involves himself with very soon. Then, in a last-ditch attempt to remain accepted in academia, he was appointed “Professor” at Asbiro University in Łódź, Poland which, despite the name, is not a university. It’s more of a conference centre to discuss social media optimisation, bitcoin investing strategies, and race science. Dutton’s most popular “lecture” looks into innate IQ differences in race, including his belief that those with “blonde hair and blues eyes” have a higher intelligence. Of course, mostly based off of his unequivocally titled book, “How to Judge People by What They Look Like”.
A busy writer is Dutton, in fact. The Aberdeen alumnus has published many other titles, including “Why Islam Makes You Stupid”, “Making Sense of Race”, and “Meeting Jesus at University” (available in the library!). His books that aren’t self-published, however, are mostly published by Washington Summit Publishers, headed by American neo-Nazi and alt-right terrorist accomplice Richard B. Spencer. Dutton and Spencer are good friends – having appeared on his show many times – despite the fact that Spencer is banned from most European countries. See the recurring theme yet?
Perhaps the most dangerous endeavour of Dutton’s is his articles and editorial oversight in Mankind Quarterly, a pseudoscience white supremacist academic journal founded by anti-semite Robert Gayre and Roger Pearson, amongst others. Pearson, most notably, also founded the Northern League: a neo-Nazi organisation with founding members such as Nazi Party member and Third Reich race scientist Hans F. K. Günther, and SS spy and close associate of Heinrich Himmler, Franz Altheim. Although this journal calls itself ‘peer-reviewed’, much of that reviewing is done by a small group of fellow alt-right pseudoscientists simply rubber-stamping each other. Mankind Quarterly is funded by individual and institutional subscriptions and the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund dates back to 1937 when it was founded by American textile magnate Wickliffe Draper with the goal of advancing race science, eugenics, and racial segregation. The president of the fund until 1941 was Harry H. Laughlin, the architect of the Nazi forced sterilisation program in 1933. How much Dutton has received from this fund is unknown, but Lynn and Pearson themselves have received at the very least half-a-million and one million dollars, respectively.
The article concludes:
Worryingly, Dutton and his friends don’t just publish in fringe academic journals. They have crept into mainstream science despite their lack of qualifications in relevant fields in, for instance, Springer’s ‘Evolutionary Psychological Science’ and ‘Sexuality Research and Social Policy’, Elsevier’s ‘Personality and Individual Differences’, and Cambridge University’s ‘Behavioral and Brain Sciences’.
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