Kevin MacDonald



Kevin B. MacDonald is a retired professor of psychology, and an evolutionary psychologist. He is the editor of Occidental Observer, a "magazine" that covers "white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West" and which the ADL calls "a primary voice for anti-Semitism from far-right intellectuals". MacDonald the editor of a "journal devoted to the ethnic, racial, and cultural heritage that forms the foundation of Western Civilization" and which has been widely recognized as white nationalist. He is also a frequent contributor to VDARE.

Earlier a Catholic, during his college days he was a peacenik, a flower child, and opposed the Vietnam War. He eventually felt that there were way too many Jews in the anti-war movement and that they tended to take over grassroots movements and make white members tokens. This is where his descent into antisemitism began.

He since became the director of the American Third Position Party (or "American Freedom Party"), a White nationalist party.

He's noted for using pseudo-scientific evolutionary psychology in his articles and books to advance racialist views of Jews. He claims that Judaism is a "group evolutionary strategy" that evolved as a result of the Jewish disapora. These theories have been poorly received by the scientific community and anyone with a brain. In contrast, they are beloved among white supremacists.

He also believes in other HBD ideas, such as Edward Dutton's theory that ethnic Finnish people have evolved to be genetically highly monogamous, cooperative, and trusting and that this is because, over generations, the harsh, cold environment of Finland selected for such traits (wouldn't that also be the case for other cold-weather countries like Sweden and Norway?).

Professional career
MacDonald joined the Department of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 1985. He became a full professor in 1995 and retired in 2014.

His work prior to the 1990s focused on wolf behavior and parent-child play. The vast majority of his publications are on mainstream topics and are featured in mainstream journals.

The CSULB psychology department voted to formally dissociate themselves from his work in 2008. In the same year, the academic senate issued the following statement:

The Culture of Critique
The best known of his books is his 1998 The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements. In short: anything left of Mussolini? Blame the Jews.

Jewish behavior
He also wrote a trilogy of books explaining "Jewish behavior" as a group survival trait. MacDonald claims that this causes Jews to work against the majority culture of the society they live in and, as such, suggests that Jews are parasitically trying to destroy Western Civilization.

MacDonald also advances the usual claims of white supremacists and neo-Nazis: that Jews control American institutions and are trying to alter American culture for their own ends.

The trilogy has been mostly ignored by serious scholars but has been criticised by the right-wing writer Nathan Cofnas as relying on "misrepresented sources and cherry-picked facts". Cofnas later observed, "MacDonald has attempted to neutralize my critique by writing long, tedious rejoinders that have succeeded in creating confusion, and led some onlookers to assume that he must have successfully defended his work because he wrote so many words."

Jews control the media
In "Jewish Fear and Loathing of Donald Trump (5): Would Trump’s Defeat Be Blamed On Jews?", MacDonald wrote:

Jews use the Holocaust to promote liberal policy
In "Using the Moral Capital of the Holocaust to Promote Muslim Migration", MacDonald wrote:

Notably, MacDonald doesn't offer arguments against those he quotes in this article. Instead, he just says "look, a Jew is referencing the Holocaust to advance their politics" and moves on, as if that were rebuttal enough.

Miscellaneous
Donald Trump, Jr. retweeted a tweet by Kevin MacDonald that alleged a conspiracy by Hillary Clinton to help Swiss bank UBS in return for money donated to her charity.

During unabashed antisemite David Irving's 1996 defamation suit against Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, Irving called a number of witnesses. Only one such witness didn't have to be subpoenaed and came freely: Kevin MacDonald.

MacDonald also doubts that African American quarterback Colin Kaepernick "would be seen as viable given that QBs are supposed to be leaders & still lots of Whites on offense" and finds it hard "to see Kaepernick being the leader of a team with White linemen, etc." We will let the reader decide why MacDonald thinks that a black cannot lead whites.