I Don't Speak German, Episode 19: Jared Taylor and American Renaissance
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🗓️ 9 January 2021
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Summary
In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the so-called 'godfather of the alt-right' and Richard Spencer's claimed "mentor", Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, one of the most important and idiosyncratic influences on today's resurgent US white supremacism.
Warnings apply.
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Show Notes
Episode 18 additions:
Popular Front: "The American Militia Movement"
"Standoff: Between Two Shotguns" by Ruth Graham at Slate
Jared Taylor and American Renaissance:
Sam Dickson at Atlanta Antifascists
"The Racists on Ridgeland Way: Ground Zero for Alt-Right Organizing in Atlanta
"While always a staunch conservative, Francis's views radicalized over time. He began describing himself as a "paleoconservative" focused heavily on racial issues and ended up writing for racist publications like the Council of Conservative Citizens' (CCC) newsletter, Citizens Informer. (The CCC, which had from the late 1980s until the late 1990s dozens of state legislators and other politicians in its ranks, is a white supremacist group that focuses on issues like support for the Confederate battle flag and opposition to non-white immigration, school busing and affirmative action. The group was built using the mailing lists of the White Citizens Councils, organizations formed to fight school desegregation in the South.)
Francis' definitive break with more mainstream conservatism came with his 1995 firing from The Washington Times. The newspaper acted after conservative author Dinesh D'Souza quoted a Francis speech to a 1994 conference put on by the white supremacist and race science journal, American Renaissance. D'Souza wrote that Francis' comments embodied the "new spirit of white bigotry." "
American Renaissance on Youtube
"A schism over anti-Semitism threatens a key 'white nationalist' group. The outcome could be critical to the radical right." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/schism-over-anti-semitism-divides-key-white-nationalist-group-american-renaissance
"HERNDON, Va. -- For a gathering of people devoted to denouncing the inferiority of blacks and sounding the alarm about civilization-threatening Muslims, the biannual conferences thrown by the New Century Foundation, publisher of the racist newsletter American Renaissance, are decidedly genteel affairs. Men dress in suits and ties, women in formal business attire, and there are no uniformed skinheads or Klansmen to be seen. Large plasma television screens, Starbucks coffee spreads and fancy linens adorn the hotel meeting hall. Epithets have no place here.
Or at least they didn't. At the latest edition of the conferences that began in 1994, held this February at the Hyatt Dulles hotel, a nasty spat broke out that upset the gathering's decorum -- and may even shape the future of the radical right.
It began when David Duke, the former Klan leader and author of Jewish Supremacism, strode to a microphone after French author Guillaume Faye wrapped up a talk vilifying Muslims entitled "The Threat to the West." Duke thanked Faye for remarks that "touched my genes." But then he went one further.
"There is a power in the world that dominates our media, influences our government and that has led to the internal destruction of our will and spirit," Duke said, according to an undisputed account in The Forward newspaper.
"Tell us, tell us," someone in the back yelled.
"I'm not going to say it," Duke replied. Laughter began to fill the room, until a short, angry man leaped from his seat, walked up to Duke and began to curse.
"You fucking Nazi, you've disgraced this meeting!" he said."
2000 SPLC report on the first edition of the Color of Crime
The Color of Crime, 2011 edition
The Color of Crime, 2016 edition
Jared Taylor's introduction to the first American Renaissance conference, 1994 (Actual content starts about eight minutes in)
Amren 2019 conference speakers
Jared Taylor banned from Europe until 2021
"Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent white supremacists in the U.S., claimed on his website on Friday that he’d been “banned from Europe” until 2021.
The ban came as Taylor attempted to transfer in Switzerland for a flight to Finland. According to Taylor, Swiss police informed him that Polish authorities had barred Taylor from traveling through the Schengen Zone, a 26-country area of Europe allowing visa-free travel.
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"Taylor had been planning on speaking at white supremacist conferences in Scandinavia, including one on Saturday in Stockholm that featured other well-known fascists like Mark Collett and Greg Johnson.
It’s unclear why Polish authorities issued a blanket ban against Taylor. Taylor attributed the ban to a 2018 trip to the country, where he gave multiple television interviews. During that trip, Taylor said that Polish police said he was “spreading a totalitarian ideology.” "
Jared Taylor and American Renaissance sues Twitter for banning over speech content.
American Renaissance Newsletter, November 1990
Paul Kersey at American Renaissance
"Stuff Black People Don't Like" January 2010 at the Internet Archive
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there and yeah Jack Daniel don't speak German episode 19 podcast Nazis you know the drill |
| 0:06.6 | hi Daniel how you doing I am doing well still I'm not speaking German we took a week off and |
| 0:12.3 | I did not spend any of that time learning to speak German |
| 0:14.8 | unfortunately. Well good because that would you know ruin our brand wouldn't it? We'd have to we'd have to change the title and then you know |
| 0:21.1 | people wouldn't know where to find us. Yeah. Yeah, so we did take a week off. It wasn't it wasn't planned for that week, but we were planning at some point fairly soon to go to a fortnightly schedule anyway and I think |
| 0:36.3 | we're doing that from now on aren't we one episode every two weeks? |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah I mean I think last week I mean Jack and I both had, I mean, just for the listeners, you know, this was always meant to be kind of a, you know, we thought we get 100 listeners, right? |
| 0:51.0 | We thought, we thought, we thought, like, oh, yeah, is going to be kind of a little thing and it's really meant, it was really something Jack was doing for me, A, like it got us to sit and talk every week, which is great. But it was also just kind of meant to be like let me help you put notes together for the bigger project because you know it's not a spoiler alert. I'm trying to write a book and that's not going very well because it's hard to learn how to talk about this stuff without talking about it. |
| 1:16.0 | And so this podcast was part of that. It's like, okay, get your notes together, we'll talk about it. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, you can kind of tangle out like what works and what doesn't in terms of like |
| 1:24.2 | tone and all that sort of thing. That was kind of the goal of this podcast and it blew up. We've got like thousands of people |
| 1:30.9 | listening which is great this is like an amazing |
| 1:34.3 | thing to I'm very privileged to get to be in this place but um it's still kind of you |
| 1:42.4 | know at that point then like the correspondence and the sort of the greater prominence means that like it kind of puts us more in demand and it sort of like takes away even more from the ability to actually sort of like do slower more contemplative work. So you know we had kind of planned on kind of going, I say bi-weekly, but that's the Americanism, you know, every other week, |
| 2:06.4 | fortnightly. So we are planning on doing that. We will try to do some, maybe some stuff that isn't |
| 2:12.2 | directly on blunt directly on |
| 2:14.5 | directly on brand for this podcast we've talked about doing like a 1984 a |
| 2:19.6 | commentary which is sort of directly related to this content but not like specifically kind of an episode of I don't speak German |
| 2:26.2 | And I'm hoping to get some interviews and stuff that you can kind of that don't require as much prep work on my part and don't require as much work on Jack's part. |
| 2:34.8 | And so we may start kind of interspersing those as well, but I think from this point forward |
| 2:39.1 | you can inspect a regular Idon Street German episode every two weeks with possibly kind of other stuff interspersed as as we produce it. |
| 2:48.0 | And that's with no attempt to sort of like thank you to all the Patreon supporters and thank you to |
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