Category: Academic Racism

Denounced by Colleagues, Anti-Semitic Prof Threatens to Sue

Posted in Academic Racism, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda, Hate on Campus by Heidi Beirich on April 18, 2008

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald (right) is facing more condemnation from his colleagues for his anti-Semitic research. In the past month, both the Jewish Studies Program and the History Department have issued statements (here and here) specifically distancing themselves from MacDonald’s hateful work. The Anthropology Department also has a statement [...]

Immigration Report Being Released Today Linked to White Supremacists


Last Friday, a highly conservative publication called Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) published an editorial on its website called “The Real Cost of Immigration” that previewed a report to be released today at the National Press Club — an analysis, as IBD noted, by one Edwin S. Rubenstein that is being published by The Social Contract [...]

National YAF Leadership Cracks Down On Racist Lecture Series

Posted in Academic Racism, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Anti-Semitic, Hate Groups, Hate on Campus by David Holthouse on March 3, 2008

Kyle Bristow, the former chairman of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans For Freedom, is no stranger to erratic behavior. But the MSU junior exhibited a particularly strange emotional schism last week, rhapsodizing about bald eagles one minute, and then branding the national leaders of YAF “cowards” the next.
Bristow’s wild mood swings began [...]

Campus Hatemonger Lays Down ‘Torch of Freedom’


Kyle Bristow — the pugnacious chair of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF), a student organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — announced Sunday that he’s resigning “so that the next generation of YAFers can replace me.”
Bristow (right) also confirmed that an MSU-YAF-sponsored lecture [...]

Anti-Semitic Prof Facing Colleagues’ Sanction

Posted in Academic Racism, Anti-Semitic, Hate Groups by Heidi Beirich on February 7, 2008

Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald (below, right) is facing condemnation from his colleagues for his anti-Semitic research, according to the California State University, Long Beach (CSU-LB), student newspaper, The Daily 49er. This academic year, MacDonald was removed from certain undergraduate courses that had long been taught by him. University sources told Hatewatch in July that large [...]

Academic Racism: Into the Muck

Posted in Academic Racism by Mark Potok on December 9, 2007

When Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson suggested in October that Africans are innately less intelligent than others, he was met by an international firestorm of scientific criticism, ultimately resulting in his public apology and later resignation from the Long Island laboratory where he was chancellor. Many experts on intelligence challenged the scientific basis for [...]

Plan B: How to Tone Up the White Race

Posted in Academic Racism, Extremist Commerce, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on November 30, 2007

The white nationalist world is filled with any manner of oddball schemes, but a recent advertisement in the race science publication American Renaissance for “saving” the white race through the use of “Positive Subliminal Audio Programming” has got to take the cake for kookiest.
Alexander Thiele of the Legion of Joan of Arc blog proposes that [...]

Missing the Boat: NPR & the Pioneer Fund

Posted in Academic Racism, Hate Groups, Media Extremism, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on October 30, 2007

On Oct. 23, Farai Chideya interviewed for NPR’s “News & Notes” program J. Philippe Rushton, a professor at the University of Western Ontario who heads the Pioneer Fund, which Chideya incorrectly referred to as the Pioneer Group (that error is still in NPR’s website promo today). The topic, “Race and Intelligence: Is There a Link?” [...]

Extremist Group Announces Speech by Congressman

Posted in Academic Racism, Hate Groups, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on October 8, 2007

The Robert A. Taft Club, a group headed by a man with a network of racist connections, has announced that a U.S. congressman, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), will address the group this Thursday at a restaurant in Arlington, Va.
The Taft Club is led by Marcus Epstein (right), who serves as the executive director of both [...]

Today at the National Press Club: Hate Group Co-Hosts Immigration News Conference

Posted in Academic Racism, Hate Groups, Nativist Extremist by Heidi Beirich on October 3, 2007

The Social Contract Press, which has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2001 for publishing articles by white supremacists and promoting the idea that America should be populated by white people, is co-hosting a news conference at the National Press Club today. The topic is “How Many Illegal [...]

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