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Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)

Kevin MacDonald
MacDonald at American Freedom Party conference 2013
Born (1944-01-24) January 24, 1944 (age 80)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (B.A.)
University of Connecticut (M.Sc.)
University of Connecticut (Ph.D)
Occupation(s)Professor of Psychology at California State University
Editor of The Occidental Observer[1]
Known forAntisemitism
Notable workThe Culture of Critique series
WebsiteMacDonald's personal site
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Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is an American antisemitic conspiracy theorist,[1][2][3] white supremacist,[4][5][6] and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).[7][8]

MacDonald is known for his promotion of an antisemitic theory, most prominently within The Culture of Critique series, according to which Western Jews have tended to be politically liberal and involved in politically or sexually transgressive social, philosophical, and artistic movements because, he asserts, Jews have biologically evolved to undermine the societies in which they live.[9][10][7] In short, MacDonald argues that Jews have evolved to be highly ethnocentric and hostile to the interests of "white people", a racial category of which he considers Jewish people not to be a part. In an interview with Tablet magazine in 2020, MacDonald said: "Jews are just gonna destroy white power completely, and destroy America as a white country."[11]

Scholars characterize MacDonald's theory as a tendentious form of circular reasoning, which assumes its conclusion to be true regardless of empirical evidence. The theory fails the basic test of any scientific theory, the criterion of falsifiability, because MacDonald refuses to provide or acknowledge any factual pattern of Jewish behavior that would tend to disprove his idea that Jews have evolved to be ethnocentric and anti-white.[12][13] Other scholars and antisemitism experts dismiss the theory as pseudoscience analogous to older conspiracy theories about a Jewish plot to undermine European civilization.[14][15][2] In 2008, the CSULB academic senate voted to disassociate itself from MacDonald's work.[16][17]

MacDonald's theories have received support from antisemitic conspiracy theorists and neo-Nazi groups.[18][19] He serves as editor of The Occidental Observer,[1][20] which he says covers "white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West".[20] He is described by the Anti-Defamation League as having "become a primary voice for anti-Semitism from far-right intellectuals"[21] and by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "the neo-Nazi movement's favorite academic".[9] He has been described as part of the alt-right movement.[22] By 2010, MacDonald was one of the eight members of the board of directors of the newly founded American Third Position (known from 2013 as the American Freedom Party),[9] an organization stating that it "exists to represent the political interests of White Americans".[23]

  1. ^ a b c "Kevin MacDonald" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. November 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Blutinger, Jeffrey C. (Spring 2021). "A New Protocols: Kevin MacDonald's Reconceptualization of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory". Antisemitism Studies. 5 (1): 4–43. doi:10.2979/antistud.5.1.02. JSTOR 10.2979/antistud.5.1.02. S2CID 234772531.
  3. ^ Konda, Thomas Milan (2019). Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America. University of Chicago Press. p. 140. ISBN 9780226585765.
  4. ^ Bar-On, Tamir; Molas, Bàrbara (2021). The Right and Radical Right in the Americas: Ideological Currents from Interwar Canada to Contemporary Chile. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-7936-3582-2.
  5. ^ Miller, Abraham (2 April 2018). "The Theory Behind That Charlottesville Slogan". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander; Clifford, Bennett; Vidino, Lorenzo (October 2020). "Antisemitism as an Underlying Precursor to Violent Extremism in American Far-Right and Islamist Contexts" (PDF). George Washington University, Program on Extremism. p. 7.
  7. ^ a b MacDonald to retire in the fall Archived 2019-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, daily49er.com, April 14, 2014; accessed August 16, 2015.
  8. ^ Beirich, Heidi (February 6, 2014). "Anti-Semitic Theorist, Cal State Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald Now Retired". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Kevin MacDonald". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Garber was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Samuels, David; MacDonald, Kevin (June 11, 2020). "American Racist". Tablet. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  12. ^ Cofnas, Nathan (10 March 2018). "Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy: A Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald's Theory". Human Nature. 29 (2): 134–156. doi:10.1007/s12110-018-9310-x. ISSN 1045-6767. PMC 5942340. PMID 29526014.
  13. ^ Daniel Kriegman (August 17, 2021). "Modern, Darwinian Antisemitism: The Racist Misuseof Evolutionary Pseudoscience". Springer Nature.
  14. ^ Schulson, Michael (2018-06-27). "Kevin MacDonald and the Elevation of Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience". Undark Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
  15. ^ Gilman, Sander (2018-01-03). "Anti-Semitic Pseudoscience Isn't New". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  16. ^ "Statement on Dr. Kevin MacDonald's Work". California State University, Long Beach. 5 May 2008.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference senate was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference LATimes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Marantz, Andrew (October 16, 2017). "Birth of a white supremacist". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  20. ^ a b "Mission Statement – The Occidental Observer". The Occidental Observer. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  21. ^ "The Occidental Observer: Online Anti-Semitism's New Intellectual Voice". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  22. ^ Aaron Blake (September 17, 2016). "A lot of Donald Trump Jr.'s trail missteps seem to involve white nationalists and Nazis". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017. On Sept. 1, Trump Jr. retweeted alt-right movement leader Kevin MacDonald, who runs The Occidental Observer website. According to the site's mission statement, it is focused on issues of 'white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West.' ... MacDonald has often written about how anti-Semitism is a logical and justified reaction to Jewish success.
  23. ^ Cite error: The named reference SPLCAFP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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