Thread: "Why John Derbyshire had to go" ---- James Edwards on Jared Taylor's analysis

"Earlier today, we reported to you that National Review fired John Derbyshire for telling the truth.

Jared Taylor has this to say about the incident."

John Derbyshire has now joined the roster of brilliant journalists who have been fired by publications that call themselves “conservative.” Mr. Derbyshire’s April 5 column for Takimag.com committed the usual crime of pointing out something that is not only true but that everyone knows to be true. He noted that blacks are on average less intelligent than whites, that many of them hate whites, and that when they gather in large numbers they can be dangerous. Mr. Derbyshire’s column was framed as a white parent’s “talk” to his children about the facts of race.

Of course, anyone not a tourist from Iceland learns by about age 10 to avoid crowds of blacks, but it is considered “racist” actually to say so. It took National Review two days to fire Mr. Derbyshire—an eternity in the age of the Internet, even if it was Easter weekend—and lefty publications like Atlantic Wire and Huffington Post were yelling for blood long before the ax fell.

National Review’s editor Rich Lowry’s public notice of dismissal started with fluff about Mr. Derbyshire’s “delightful first novel,” but called his Takimag piece “nasty and indefensible.” This is another way of saying Mr. Derbyshire was writing honestly about race, and National Review has a history of firing people who write honestly.

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Why John Derbyshire had to go - JAMES EDWARDS | JAMES EDWARDS

PROGRAMMING NOTE

Jared Taylor will be our exclusive guest on Saturday night’s live broadcast of The Political Cesspool Radio Program, when we engage in an in-depth discussion about this type of censorship.

Just happened across a 2010 interview with John Derbyshire, done by Craig Bodeker, who brought us "A Conversation About Race". All the more relevant now that JD has been fired.

Craig Bodeker talks with John Derbyshire - YouTube