Steve Sailer

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name = Steve Sailer


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Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an American journalist and movie critic for "The American Conservative", ex-correspondent for UPI, and VDARE.com columnist. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports. He is perhaps best known online as a blogger.

Sailer grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA and Rice University.Fact|date=July 2008 From 1994 to 1998, he worked as a columnist for the conservative magazine "National Review" (He has published in it since then [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-sailer052202.asp] ).

Sailer, along with Charles Murray and John McGinnis, was described as an "evolutionary conservative" in a 1999 "National Review" cover story by John O'Sullivan. [ [http://www.nationalreview.com/11oct99/osullivan101199.html Types of Right] - National Review]

Controversy

Sailer's article on Hurricane Katrina was followed by accusations of racism, with the highest profile critic being John Podhoretz, who posted a response on the "National Review Online blog". [ [http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTIyMThlNmMzNThiZjM4MjQzODUzM2JlZTIzMWJhYjA= The Most Disgusting Sentence Yet Written About Katrina] , John Podhoretz, National Review group blog, September 5, 2005]

The progressive media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a report that criticized New York Times writers David Brooks and John Tierney for citing Sailer while failing to acknowledge him as "a leading promoter of racist pseudoscience". [ [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2487 Academic Racists Make Mainstream Inroads] , Steve Rendall, FAIR, March/April 2005] Similarly, Media Matters for America took NBC to task for citing Sailer as a conservative movie critic while omitting any mention of his racial and political beliefs. [ [http://mediamatters.org/items/200601230006 NBC offered far-right columnist Steve Sailer a platform to attack Hollywood] , Media Matters for America, January 23, 2006]

Sailer's views on race in Mexico have been described by Rodolfo Acuña, a Chicano Studies professor, as "a pretext and a negative justification for discriminating against US Latinos in the context of US history. Listing Latinos as non-white also gives Sailer and others the opportunity to divide Latinos into races, thus weakening the group by setting up a scenario where lighter-skinned Mexicans are accepted as Latinos or Hispanics and darker-skinned Latinos are relegated to an underclass." [Acuña, Rodolfo. U.S. Latino issues. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.]

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External links

* [http://www.isteve.com Steve Sailer's website and blog]
* [http://www.vdare.com/sailer/index.htm/ Steve Sailer's Vdare.com page]