Jews—uh, Georgia—on his mind

If anyone’s wondering why Steve Sailer has a reputation for having a problem with Jews, read his captiously argued, supremely strange piece about Georgia. It’s as though he sat down and thought, “How can I persuade even my fans that I’m bent out of shape about Jews? I’ve got it. I’ll say that the Georgia problem is really a Jew problem. The fact that I don’t have any arguments or facts to prove this will serve my purpose of making myself appear to be Jew-obsessed. I’ll just keep mentioning Jews in connection with Georgia, tendentiously putting them in an oddly sinister light, and acting as though I’m hoping that something will stick to them, when in reality the only thing that will stick will be the suspicion that sticks to me that I’m an anti-Semite.”

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Adela G. writes:

I read Steve Sailer’s entry on Jews—er, Georgia, last night. He must have interrupted his nightly screening of this movie to write it.

Adela continues:

I read Sailer’s entry late last night and was genuinely shocked. You had mentioned his anti-Jewish bias just last week. But to see it so nakedly revealed was still a shock. I thought perhaps you had gleaned it from the subtext of his writings. But no, it was right out there in plain view.

August 20

Dan G. writes:

I’m glad you’ve taken notice of Steve Sailer’s latest incoherent speculations on the Russian-Georgian conflict and nailed him appropriately on them. You are right to point out that even his fans—and I count myself as one of them—can no longer deny that he is an anti-Semite. Not as toxic, perhaps, as the racists who contribute most of the comments on his blog, but an anti-Semite nonetheless, prone to depicting Jews almost exclusively in what you appropriately call an “oddly sinister light” (either that or they are, in his words, mere “hustlers and blowhards”).

Thankfully, a few clear thinkers are pointing out his folly in the comments section of his blog but they are, as always, greatly outnumbered.

LA replies:

Thank you. But may I ask why you—who, moreover, have a Jewish surname—remain the fan of someone whom you yourself consider anti-Semitic, and whose blog is dominated by commenters who, according to you, are even more anti-Semitic than he is?

And why do you excuse his anti-Semitism by calling it mere “folly,” rather than calling it bad?

However, I am glad that he is receiving at least some criticism from commenters at his blog. It means that, at long last, I am not the only person on the right pointing out these things about him, though, sadly, I remain, as far as I’m aware, the only bylined writer on the right saying these things about him.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 19, 2008 07:20 PM | Send