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'''Steven Ernest Sailer''' (born December 20, 1958) is an American [[paleoconservative]] [[journalist]], [[movie critic]], [[blogger]], and columnist. He is a former correspondent for [[United Press International|UPI]] and a columnist for ''[[Taki's Magazine]]'' and [[VDARE]], writing about [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]] relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, [[IQ]], [[genetics]], [[movies]], and [[sports]]. As of 2014, Sailer ceased publishing his personal blog on his own website and shifted it to the ''Unz Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.unz.com/isteve/|title = Steve Sailer Blog Posts|accessdate = September 27, 2014|url-status = live|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141007124926/http://www.unz.com/isteve/|archivedate = October 7, 2014}}</ref> an online publication founded by former businessman [[Ron Unz]]. | |||
'''Steven Ernest Sailer''' (born December 20, 1958) is an American [[paleoconservative]] [[journalist]], [[movie critic]], [[blogger]], and columnist. He is a former correspondent for [[United Press International|UPI]] and a columnist for ''[[Taki's Magazine]]'' and [[VDARE]], a website associated with [[white supremacy]],<ref name="Time">Sam Frizell, [http://time.com/4418591/republican-convention-white-supremacist-tweet/ GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech]. [[Time (magazine)|Time]], 21 July 2016</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nS12bSVKgmoC&q=%22vdare+a+hate+group%22&pg=PA89|title=Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia|last1=Arnold|first1=Kathleen|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9780313375224|page=89|access-date=2017-08-30}}</ref> [[white nationalism]],<ref name="Folk">Holly Folk, ''The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.<nowiki/>com."</ref><ref name="Sussman">Robert W. Sussman, ''The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea'' (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.</ref><ref name="Phillips">Kristine Phillips, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/26/a-resort-canceled-a-white-nationalist-groups-first-ever-conference-because-of-its-views/ Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group’s views], ''Washington Post'' (January 26, 2017).</ref> and the [[alt-right]].<ref name="splc">{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/paleoconservatives-decry-immigration|title='Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration|author1=Heidi Beirich|author2=Mark Potok|date=Winter 2003|work=[[Intelligence Report]]|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref><ref name="Piggott">{{Cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/21/ann-coulter-attends-vdare-christmas-party-%E2%80%93-her-second-white-nationalist-event-three-months|title=Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months|author=Stephen Piggott|date=December 21, 2016|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/cucking-nazi-salutes-night-out-alt-right-529688|title=Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right|author=Hannah Gais|date=December 11, 2016|publisher=Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek}}</ref> He has a history of making racist statements,<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 April 2013|title=Anti-immigrant Website Uses Boston Bombings to Target Immigrants|work=Anti-Defamation League|url=https://www.adl.org/news/article/anti-immigrant-website-uses-boston-bombings-to-target-immigrants|url-status=live|quote=... Steve Sailer, a longtime VDARE contributor known for making racist statements ...}}</ref><ref name=ADL>[https://www.adl.org/blog/jason-richwine-has-ties-to-more-extreme-elements-of-anti-immigrant-movement Jason Richwine Has Ties To More Extreme Elements of Anti-Immigrant Movement]. [[Anti-Defamation League]], 2013</ref> and writes about [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]] relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, [[IQ]], [[genetics]], [[movies]], and [[sports]]. As of 2014, Sailer ceased publishing his personal blog on his own website and shifted it to the ''Unz Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.unz.com/isteve/|title = Steve Sailer Blog Posts|accessdate = September 27, 2014|url-status = live|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141007124926/http://www.unz.com/isteve/|archivedate = October 7, 2014}}</ref> an online publication founded by former businessman [[Ron Unz]] that promotes anti-semitism, [[Holocaust denial]], conspiracy theories, and [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] material.<ref>{{cite news|last=Harmon |first=Amy |title=Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=6 March 2020 |date=7 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="ADL2018">{{cite web |title=California Entrepreneur Ron Unz Launches a Series of Rhetorical Attacks on Jews|website=Anti-Defamation League |url=https://www.adl.org/blog/california-entrepreneur-ron-unz-launches-a-series-of-rhetorical-attacks-on-jews|date=October 4, 2018|access-date=November 30, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Sixsmith">{{cite news|last=Sixsmith|first=Ben|url=https://spectator.us/ron-unz/|title=The curious case of Ron Unz|work=The Spectator|date=September 15, 2018|access-date=April 19, 2019|quote=In June, Unz published an essay saluting the ‘remarkable’ historiography of David Irving. In his legal fight against the historian Deborah Lipstadt, Unz wrote, Irving’s work was analysed ‘line-by-line, footnote-by-footnote’ by historians who ‘came up empty’. Readers of expert witness Richard J. Evans’s report on Irving’s scholarship will know this to be false. Unz followed this essay with an approving appraisal of the Nazis’ treatment of France that never once mentioned their millions of murders in Central and Eastern Europe, long articles implicating Mossad in the killings of John and Robert Kennedy and a series of analyses of Jewish history which concluded that Judaism entails ‘the enslavement or execution of all non-Jews’, that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is ‘a classic of political thought’, that the Holocaust almost certainly did not take place in a recognisable form and that anti-Semitism has in general been well-founded.}}</ref> | |||
Sailer has been credited with coining the theory known as "[[human biodiversity]]" in the 1990s. | |||
Sailer has been credited with coining the [[pseudoscientific]] race theory known as "human biodiversity" in the 1990s, with the term later being used among the alt-right as a euphemism for [[scientific racism]].<ref name=IAR>[https://books.google.com/books?id=43fNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=%22human+biodiversity%22+%22steve+sailer%22+pseudoscience&source=bl&ots=FCwnjlQJzk&sig=ACfU3U0d-bVcV5QMQkULNVMFXazoOv_c0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQy7W_zI7qAhVJS6wKHeisCT0Q6AEwBnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22human%20biodiversity%22%20%22steve%20sailer%22%20pseudoscience&f=false The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?]. [[Routledge]], 2020</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Feldman |first1=Ari |title="Human Biodiversity": the Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right |url=https://forward.com/opinion/national/346533/human-biodiversity-the-pseudoscientific-racism-of-the-alt-right/ |accessdate=18 December 2018 |work=The Forward |date=5 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Willick2017"/><ref>Human biodiversity as euphemism for scientific racism: | |||
*{{cite news |last1=Hemmer |first1=Nicole |author-link=Nicole Hemmer |title="Scientific racism" is on the rise on the right. But it's been lurking there for years. |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/28/15078400/scientific-racism-murray-alt-right-black-muslim-culture-trump |accessdate=18 December 2018 |work=Vox |date=28 March 2017|ref=none}} | |||
*{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Gavin |title=The unwelcome revival of 'race science' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science |accessdate=18 December 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=2 March 2018 |quote=The far right has even rebranded race science with an alternative name that sounds like it was taken straight from the pages of a university course catalogue: 'human biodiversity'.|ref=none}}</ref> In his writing for VDARE, Sailer has described black people as tending "to possess poorer native judgment than members of better educated groups".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weiss |first1=Bari |title=Steve Bannon's Heart Doesn't Matter. His Actions Do. |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/218219/steve-bannon-alt-right |accessdate=18 December 2018 |work=Tablet Magazine |date=17 November 2016 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||
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Steve Sailer | |
|---|---|
 Portrait on his Twitter account, 2021 | |
| Born | (1958-12-20)December 20, 1958 (age 66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rice University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, columnist, blogger |
| Website | unz.com/isteve |
Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an Americanpaleoconservativejournalist,movie critic,blogger, and columnist. He is a former correspondent forUPI and a columnist forTaki's Magazine andVDARE, writing aboutrace relations, gender issues, politics, immigration,IQ,genetics,movies, andsports. As of 2014, Sailer ceased publishing his personal blog on his own website and shifted it to theUnz Review,[1] an online publication founded by former businessmanRon Unz.
Sailer has been credited with coining the theory known as "human biodiversity" in the 1990s.
Sailer was an adopted child; he grew up inStudio City, Los Angeles. He majored in economics, history, and management atRice University (BA, 1980).[2] He earned anMBA fromUCLA in 1982 with two concentrations: finance and marketing.[3] In 1982 he moved from Los Angeles to Chicago,[4] and from then until 1985 he managed BehaviorScan test markets forInformation Resources, Inc.[5] In 1996, he was diagnosed withnon-Hodgkin lymphoma, and in February 1997, he was treated withRituxan. He has been inremission since those treatments.[6] He became a full-time journalist in 2000[7] and left Chicago for California.[8]
From 1994 to 1998, Sailer worked as a columnist for the conservative magazineNational Review, in which he has since been sporadically published.[9]
In August 1999, he debatedSteve Levitt at theSlate website, calling into question Levitt's hypothesis, which would appear in the 2005 bookFreakonomics, thatlegalized abortion in America reduced crime.[10]
Sailer, along withCharles Murray andJohn McGinnis, was described as an "evolutionary conservative" in a 1999National Review cover story byJohn O'Sullivan.[11] Sailer's work frequently appears atTaki's Magazine andVDARE, while Sailer's analyses have been cited by newspapers such asThe Washington Times,[12]The New York Times,[13] theSan Francisco Chronicle andThe Times of London.[14][15] He has been featured as a guest onThe Political Cesspool,[16] a far-right radio program which has been widely criticized for promotingantisemitism andwhite supremacy.[17][18] From 2000 to 2002, Sailer was a national correspondent for United Press International, reporting on sports, law, and politics, among other topics.
Sailer's January 2003 article "Cousin Marriage Conundrum", published inThe American Conservative, argued that nation building in Iraq would likely fail because of the high degree ofconsanguinity among Iraqis due to the common practice ofcousin marriage. This article was republished inThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.[19]
In 2008, Sailer published his only book,America's Half-Blood Prince, an analysis ofBarack Obama based on his memoirDreams from My Father.
Sailer is the founder of an online discussion forum calledHuman Biodiversity Discussion Group.[20][21][22]
Sailer's writing has been described as a precursor toTrumpism, seeming "to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right in [the 2000s]. One could detect his influence even in the places where his controversial writing on race was decidedly unwelcome."[23][24]Tyler Cowen has described Sailer as the "most significantneo-reaction thinker today".[23] After the 2016 election,Michael Barone credited Sailer with having charted in 2001 the electoral path that Donald Trump had successfully followed.[23][25]
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Sailer has often written on issues ofrace and intelligence, arguing that some races are born with inherent advantages over others, but thatconservative socio-economic policies can improve things for all.
Sailer has been described as awhite supremacist by theSouthern Poverty Law Center[26] and theColumbia Journalism Review[27]
Sailer cites studies that say, on average, blacks and Mexicans in America have lower IQs than whites,[28][29] and that Ashkenazi Jews andEast Asians have higher IQs than non-Jewish whites.[30][31] He also considers that "for at least some purposes—race actually is a highly useful and reasonable classification",[32] such as for "finessing" Affirmative Action when that's "economically convenient",[33] and for politicalgerrymandering.
Rodolfo Acuña, aChicano studies professor, regards Sailer's statements on this subject as providing "a pretext and a negative justification for discriminating against US Latinos in the context of US history". Acuña claimed that listing Latinos as non-white gives Sailer and others "the opportunity to divide Latinos into races, thus weakening the group by setting up a scenario where lighter-skinned Mexicans are accepted as Latinos or Hispanics and darker-skinned Latinos are relegated to an underclass".[34] Sailer considersHispanic a non-racial characterization.[citation needed]
In an article onHurricane Katrina, Sailer said in reference to theNew Orleans slogan "let the good times roll" that it "is an especially risky message for African-Americans." He claimed that African-Americans tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups, and thus need stricter moral guidance from society.[35] The article onHurricane Katrina was criticized for being racist byMedia Matters for America and theSouthern Poverty Law Center, as well as some conservative commentators.[36][37]Neoconservative[38] columnistJohn Podhoretz wrote in theNational Review Online blog that Sailer's statement was "shockingly racist andpaternalistic" as well as "disgusting".[39]
The term "Sailer Strategy" has been used for Sailer's proposal that Republican candidates can gain political support in American elections by appealing to working-class white workers with heterodoxright-wing nationalist andeconomic populist positions. In order to do this, Sailer suggested that Republicans supporteconomic protectionism,identity politics, and expressopposition to immigration, among other issues. The goal of this is to increase Republicans' share of the white electorate, and decrease its minority share of the electorate, in the belief that minority votes could not be won in significant numbers.[23][40][41]
The strategy was similar to that used byDonald Trump in the2016 presidential election, and has been claimed as one of the reasons Trump was able to win support from rural white voters.[23][40][41]
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