The Guardian points and sputters at me
Their 3,200 word article quotes me at such vast length it winds up making me sound smart and sane.
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
October 02, 2024
One of the funnier aspects of the articles denouncing my recently restored freedom to speak in public, such as The Atlantic’s and now The Guardian’s, is that they can’t think of any good reasons why I should ever have been censored from making public appearances by threats for the entire decade of the Great Awokening, so all they can do is point and sputter at things I’ve written. But quoting me at length just gets my ideas out there.
For example, consider The Guardian’s 3000-plus-word diatribe by Portland-based, antifa-adjacent doxxing specialist Jason Wilson:
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a “proponent of scientific racism.”
… The usual practice is to quote me so abruptly that context is lost. E.g., if I were to ever write “Hitler was good for nothing,” I’d be quoted somewhere as saying “Hitler was good…” But The Guardian’s article is so exhaustive that it winds up quoting some of my bangers at length. For example,
In another essay collected in Noticing, “Our New Planet Is Going to Be Great!,” Sailer weaves a luridly apocalyptic narrative around the late Tanzanian president John Magufuli’s policy of promoting population growth, and claims Africans’ behavior arises from a “primal” and “primitive” nature.
No, I attributed the rapid population growth in parts of sub-Saharan Africa to nurture, not nature, and called for the world to help Africans socially construct a more environmentally and economically sustainable culture:
Sailer writes: “Many African leaders continue in thrall to the primal African cult of fertility. Sub-Saharan Africa has traditionally had such high death rates that the culture compensates by trying at all costs to maximize birth.”
Sailer adds: “We need elites with the courage to make clear to African politicians like Magufuli that their cultural backwardness will not be allowed to swamp the rest of the world. I suspect that many Africans would respond favorably to a Western crusade for more sustainable African fertility levels.”
He then claims that “contemporary white culture’s worship of blacks as holy will keep us from criticizing Africans for their more primitive traits, such as their fertility obsession, and instead indulge them by letting them dispatch their surplus population to our lands.”
Indeed.
Read the whole thing there.
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Also, I’ll probably due a couple of events in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of November.
Steve, I think the fourth paragraph (or fifth if you count the Guardian headline) should be in your voice, not the Guardian's. In other words, one paragraph looks incorrectly blockquoted.
> Sailer writes: “Many African leaders continue in thrall to the primal African cult of fertility. Sub-Saharan Africa has traditionally had such high death rates that the culture compensates by trying at all costs to maximize birth.”
> Sailer adds: “We need elites with the courage to make clear to African politicians like Magufuli that their cultural backwardness will not be allowed to swamp the rest of the world. I suspect that many Africans would respond favorably to a Western crusade for more sustainable African fertility levels.”
"Yes we Whites messed up our cultures, so could you Africans mess up yours as well so you don't out breed us."