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Here Sjws Come From” – SJW Or Media Figures Are Pushing Spring 2018 Darren Osborne: Searchlight inspired to kill The FLA, football Fighting fascism since 1975 £3.00 and the far right In Mengele’s footsteps The eugenicists come to London NEWS Reports round-up By Jack Mills Media coverage offers boost for alt-right academic Peter Jordan ontroversial Canadian social justice warrior being a term of oppressive left restricting the rights of academic Jordan Peterson has abuse the alt-right uses to describe individuals is common in Peterson’s C shot to fame in Britain after people with progressive politics. work and has seen him pick up a large an interview with Channel 4 News’s Peterson has either appeared on following among the alt-right. Cathy Newman, followed by a gushing Rebel or been one of the topics of a In June 2017 Peterson was a profile by Tim Lott in the Observer Rebel video on at least 26 occasions headline speaker at The Rebel Live, newspaper. since 2016. These videos have picked an event organised by the channel in The interview with Newman, up 2.3m views on YouTube. The Toronto and attended by 800 fans and which was more challenging than vast majority of the videos are about supporters. the Observer piece, led to Channel 4 supposed “free speech battles” on Stormer having to call in security specialists university campuses. after Peterson’s alt-right fans began to Another early Peterson appearance Other speakers included McInnes, send Newman threats. was on Gavin McInnes’ show – British alt-right YouTuber Caolan Lott’s profile briefly mentioned another host who has now quit the Robertson and Faith Goldy, who Peterson having been labelled as Rebel channel. McInnes is the founder was kicked off Rebel after the “alt-right”, but quickly went on to of alt-right street fighting gang the Charlottesville protests for appearing explain that he was just railing against Jordan Peterson Proud Boys. The title of the video was on a neo-Nazi podcast linked to the the “left-wing establishment”. Lott a key figure in “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded Daily Stormer website. completely omitted the huge amount Canada’s alt-right the campuses”. The theme of an Peterson’s loyalty to the channel of funding and support Peterson has has been repaid, with Rebel posting received from the Canadian alt-right several videos promoting his new YouTube channel Rebel Media, which book 12 Rules for Life. employs a number of prominent far The book’s release is the reason right figures in Britain. Peterson visited Britain. One video was a lengthy subscriber-only Denied interview conducted over Skype by In April last year, Peterson was Rebel founder Ezra Levant at the denied a federal research grant for end of 2017, discussing Peterson’s the first time in his career, which he “extraordinary year – and his exciting claimed was as a result of his high- plans for the future”. profile stand against legislation that Neither Lott’s profile nor Channel 4 added “gender identity” and “gender News mentioned Peterson’s extensive expression” to the Canadian human connections with the far right rights and criminal codes. YouTube channel, although Newman In response Rebel Media picked did at least confront Peterson over up the tab after launching a his reactionary views and links to the crowdfunding drive for Peterson, alt-right. which raised 195,230 Canadian Nearly all the coverage Peterson dollars (around £112,000). Peterson received in the British media since the has been involved with Rebel since interview with Newman has also failed 2016, when he first came under to mention any of these links. fire for his reactionary positions on When such figures visit Britain, the Canadian academic life. media outlets that cover them need One of Peterson’s early appearances to ensure they don’t omit such vital on Rebel, in October 2016, was an background information. interview with alt-right video blogger At best it gives people like Peterson Lauren Southern, who has since left a veil of respectability that they don’t the channel. deserve, while at worst it can help to The interview saw Peterson explain normalise the hatred these alt-right Photo: Adam Jacobs “where SJWs come from” – SJW or media figures are pushing. 6 | Searchlight Spring 2018 EUGENICS SPECIAL REPORT EUGENICS SPECIAL REPORT Sonia Gable introduces our eight-page special by tracing the connections between German Nazis and today’s eugenicists The eugenicists come to London cademic conferences normally provide an open forum to share child drugged to prevent them waking up would not harm the child research and debate ideas. Not so the London Conference on because they would not know anything about it. A Intelligence, the existence of which was revealed in January. Another speaker in 2015 and 2016 was Richard Lynn, emeritus The conference, on “empirical studies of intelligence, personality and professor of psychology at the University of Ulster. Lynn has written behaviour”, is secretive and invitation-only. extensively about eugenics and racial differences in intelligence Around the time this story broke came the resignation of Toby and is assistant editor of Mankind Quarterly, a journal that over Young from the board of the Office for Students, the higher its 57-year history has published many articles by eugenicists and education regulatory body. The appointment of Young, an advocate academic racists. of the Conservative government’s Free Schools, had been widely criticised after it was revealed that he had made offensive tweets Links about women and written articles denigrating working class Mankind Quarterly was founded by Robert Gayre, who had students and disabled people. extensive links with a variety of Nazis, and its second editor was Young also wrote about so-called “progressive eugenics”. Before Roger Pearson, founder of the shadowy Northern League – as his resignation from the OfS, Young apologised for past offence. Michael Billig explains, see In Mengele’s Footsteps, on page 19. But his interest in eugenics is not at all in the past. Young We also reproduce here three articles from past issues of attended last year’s London Conference on Intelligence, although Searchlight – on academic racism, Robert Gayre’s background, he did not speak. He is also a follower on Twitter of Emil and the Northern League’s meeting in Brighton in 1971, which was Kirkegaard, who has presented papers at the conference, one of broken up by Searchlight working with the anti-Nazi 62 Group. which was on “differential immigrant group performance”. On Finally we have an article from the US on the Heritage his own website, Kirkegaard has advocated “a frank discussion Foundation, which claims to have the ear of US president Donald of paedophilia-related issues” and claimed that having sex with a Trump – but once gave Roger Pearson the job of editing its journal. 18 | Searchlight Spring 2018 In Mengele’s footsteps Michael Billig exposes the quarterly academic-looking journal whose editorial board included the man who mentored notorious Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele t first glance Mankind Quarterly looks like influence won through economic preponderance, brings any other academic journal. It seems just Michael Billig with it the very greatest danger for the life of the European like a standard journal, produced for a small is a professor of peoples and the North American peoples alike.” readership of specialist academics. But social sciences at Günther’s work was much admired by leading Nazi over 30 years ago, Searchlight published a Loughborough politicians, such as Alfred Rosenberg, head of Hitler’s Apamphlet, Psychology, Racism and Fascism, exposing how University from foreign political office and later Reich minister for the Mankind Quarterly emerged from the murky underworld 1985 to 2017. He Occupied Eastern Regions. In February 1941, Rosenberg of the far right and sought to make racism, and even Nazi wrote Searchlight’s was formally honoured with the Goethe Medal. He told race-science, respectable. Given how racist ideas are still pamphlet, Günther: “Your work has been of the utmost importance being distributed, it’s worth remembering the pamphlet. Psychology, for the safeguarding and development of the National Today, Mankind Quarterly tries to hide its disreputable Racism and Socialist Weltanschauung,” as reported in the Nazi background. On its website, the journal declares that it Fascism newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, on 16 February 1941. “was founded as a quarterly journal of anthropology” to study “the interactions between biological and cultural Racial homogenity diversity”. It goes on to say that it “was first published in Gayre was a great admirer of Günther and he used his Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961”. And then it was published work extensively for his own book, Teuton and Slav on from 1979 to 2014 “by the Council for Social and Economic the Polish Frontier, where he explicitly cited “Professor Studies (chaired by Roger Pearson) in Washington DC”. Hans FK Günther’s authoritative work on German racial There sounds nothing untoward or suspicious, unless science”. Gayre took page after page of photographs from you know who Roger Pearson is. But note an omission: the Günther’s Rassenkunde Europas to illustrate what he website avoids saying who set up the journal in Edinburgh called ideal “racial types”. in 1961 and who edited it until 1979. The journal has good Gayre’s book was essentially a recommendation for reason for reticence, as anyone familiar with Psychology, re-drawing Germany’s national boundaries in order to Racism and Fascism would know. Its editor and founder “improve the racial homogeneity” of Germany – in this was Robert Gayre, a man well connected with far right way, according to Gayre, “Germany would become and fascist circles. considerably more Nordic”. With that sort of record, it was no surprise that after Germany the war, Gayre had to abandon any hope of obtaining a Gayre was born in 1907 and before the Second World respectable university post in Britain.
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