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“”Interviewer: To me there are no good Jews, nor can they be good … I think ultimately deep down they are badly motivated, and that they can never be trusted. And from my point of view there are no good ones. Kevin MacDonald: That's probably a good rule of thumb.

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Kevin B. MacDonald (1944–) 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 is the editor of The Occidental Quarterly, 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.

Since then, he 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:

While the academic senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald’s academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed.

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

See the main article on this topic: Cultural Marxism

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

And, as always, what’s really important in thinking about Jewish issues is to focus on media power and financial donations, as well as tracking what the major Jewish organizations are up to. All three of the major networks mentioned in the above charts are managed by Jews (CBS: Leslie Moonves; NBC: Bob Greenblatt; ABC: Ben Sherwood), and CBS (Sumner Redstone’s Viacom) and NBC (the Roberts family’s Comcast) are controlled by Jewish corporations. CNN is managed by Jeff Zucker.

Quite simply, Jews have far more power in the media than any other identifiable group. And yes, Jewish identity makes a difference in content (See Culture Of Critique, Preface to the Paperback Edition , xlvi–lvi).

He misidentified Robert Greenblatt as Jewish (presumably because of his surname) despite Greenblatt growing up Catholic, which doesn't instill confidence. Another low-hanging fruit here: MacDonald omits Fox News, which (unfortunately) dominates cable news ratings, from his list of "major networks". Rupert Murdoch is not Jewish, even as much as some really want to believe he is. MacDonald also omits the two largest TV station owners in the United States, Sinclair and Nexstar, which own many local news stations. Leadership in companies can change wildly over a short period of time, so the exact period we choose to consider matters. Most of the people he listed (in 2016) simply did not hold those positions anymore as of 2020, and among them only the Roberts family retained their position as of Zucker's 2022 departure from CNN (Sumner Redstone died just four years after MacDonald wrote the above).

Assuming the remainder holds any water, Cofnas's considerations could still apply. Take geography: most large companies (including big media companies) are headquartered in large urban areas (one reason being ability to attract a very wide range of job applicants, especially college graduates, another of which is airport connectivity), where Jewish-Americans have been concentrated around since at least the 1950s, though probably going back to large waves of Jewish immigration from eastern Europe (see below). Several of the above-mentioned companies (Nexstar, CBS and Viacom/Paramount, NBC/NBCUniversal, ABC, and Fox News) are headquartered in New York City (highest-population city in the US) in particular, which has a substantial Jewish population. Also compare with the "over-representation" Cofnas refers to in relatively banal sectors like chess championships.

The influence of New York City's relatively liberal-leaning media entirely predated the arrival of large waves of Jewish immigrants, even despite the relatively decentralized nature of media at that time: for example, the highly-circulated New-York Daily Tribune, which advocated abolishing slavery, labor unionization, and granting women the vote. In Japan, which has almost no Jewish people (and certainly in turn, very few working in media), major media companies are likewise centered around the country's most populous city, Tokyo; 70 percent of Japan's national TV programming comes from five Tokyo-based broadcasters. Other big media companies there are often based in other massive cities like Osaka.

The confluence of MacDonald's excesses, Cofnas's chessmaster counter-example, the plain economic incentives of large companies to base themselves in cities (especially a metropolis or more historically, a metropole), and the social/historical/developmental factors that have made American cities what they are, begins to suggest something other than conspiracy. What MacDonald refers to as "Jewish identity [making] a difference in content", assuming he's even grabbed onto something here, could really be a broader urbanite culture (see urban–rural political divide; also bear in mind that the Jewish-American community was more conservative prior to the arrival of urban immigrant populations from eastern Europe in the late 1800s and early-mid 1900s, especially to New York City). One which, ironically enough, Donald Trump the NYC real estate developer (and Rudy Giuliani of course) was long a part of himself — more the right-wing of it as time went on (perhaps not a shock since he became hooked to Fox News for a time, and his dad was effectively a rich-guy segregationist, but that's another can of worms).

Jews use the Holocaust to promote liberal policy

See the main article on this topic: Holocaust profit controversy

In "Using the Moral Capital of the Holocaust to Promote Muslim Migration", MacDonald wrote:

This is an excellent example of how the Holocaust is used to promote immigration and multiculturalism.

Not to be outdone, Newsweek published an op-ed by Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister (Anne Frank’s stepsister: Trump ‘acting like another Hitler’). As is typical also of Jewish organizations, refugee policy is seen entirely from the perspective of what is good for Jews, with no mention of costs to European countries, including the well-known sexual depredations of Muslim men.

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Again, the holocaust as moral cudgel to promote Jewish interests in immigration and refugee policy.

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.

See also

• Greg Johnson
• Third Position

External links

• See the Wikipedia article on Kevin B. MacDonald.
• His personal site, which looks like the 1990s and reads like the 1940s
• Understanding Alt-Right Anti-Semitism, in which MacDonald features repeatedly
• Extremist file on Kevin MacDonald — Southern Poverty Law Center

• David Duke Boasts Academic Achievements, His Claims Similar to Anti-Semitic Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald — Southern Poverty Law Center
• Psych Prof Has New Job Running Racist Political Party — Southern Poverty Law Center
• THE NEW RACIALISTS

• Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite — Slate
• Long post on Kevin MacDonald — /r/BadSocialScience