Jared Taylor Clarifies Holocaust Stance

As some of you may be aware, there was a breakaway within the race realist community over the JQ (Jewish Question), which boiled over at the most recent Amren conference with Jared Taylor’s nod to hardcore White Nationalists such as David Duke, and the Jewish reaction to Duke’s speech. Despite the treatment of the Jews, both at the conference itself, and in the aftermath, where Taylor dismissed the Jews and their supporters letter of protest as “a mistake,” and characterized David Duke as “a man with strong views,” Amren remains devoid of any overtly anti-Semitic content, unlike even the paleo-Conservative VDARE, which will occasionally publish anti-Jewish essays even as it also publishes essays by Jews.

Inverted World, a formal breakaway website, which has since lost its Jewish editor, has attacked Mr. Taylor repeatedly over his tolerance and inclusion of White Nationalists, and railed at him for tolerating and collaborating with Jew haters generally, and Holocaust deniers specifically. To a question on the Holocaust, Taylor answered, “I’m not an expert on the subject, and it is not one into which I have looked,� which does sounds pretty bad, but appears to have been a much more restricted statement than originally speculated.

Taylor wrote on Amren,

“I meant, of course, the figure of six million, which is the only aspect of the question about which I would expect there to be any debate. Months later, I found myself accused of “sympathy for Holocaust denial.

I understand that estimates of the death toll range from four to six million. I have nothing approaching the historical expertise to determine which estimates are the most accurate. To interpret my reply of “not having looked into it” to imply that I somehow doubted the Holocaust itself, is not only absurd but malicious.â€?

Taylor, a master at positioning himself between seemingly irreconcilable camps, has qualified, or at least, explicated, his long-standing evasiveness on the Holocaust apparently more than ever before. There may well be a cost incurred to his standing in the White Nationalist community for publicly refuting them on a core issue. Refusing to talk about general Holocaust revisionism is one thing. Openly rejecting it, quite another.

This was a well thought out strategic response. I would love to know what he is really thinking, and why he finally evaluated that he had to finally reveal his position.