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Kevin B. MacDonald is the author of a scholarly trilogy on the subject of Judaism and a theorist of evolutionary psychology. He is a Professor of Psychology at California_State_University%2C_Long_Beach. The three titles are: A People That Shall Dwell Alone, Separation and Its Discontents, and The Culture of Critique. They propose and discuss Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy designed to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources. MacDonald argues that this strategy accomplishes this, in part, by fostering in Jews a series of marked genetic traits, including above-average verbal intelligence and a highly-developed tendency toward group-oriented behavior. Antisemitism, according to MacDonald, should properly be understood as an expected result of this evolutionary strategy. He claims, for instance, that the Frankfurt School is one part of a Jewish strategy to destroy Western civilization by destroying the unique culture of Shakespeare, Beethoven and Kant by Schönberg, Einstein and Marx.The prescription MacDonald proposes for restoring parity between the Jews and other ethnic groups include systematic discrimination against Jews in college admission and employment and heavy taxation of Jews "to counter the Jewish advantage in the possession of wealth." [1]
MacDonald is the editor of Population and Environment and an associate editor of the journal Sexuality & Culture. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Occidental Quarterly in addition to numerous other academic journals. MacDonald testified on behalf of David Irving, when Irving was accused of Holocaust_denial.
He has been accused of anti-Semitism by other scholars and has developed a following among white supremacists and neo-Nazis though he himself denies he has any such affiliation. Academic Jeff Schatz has accused MacDonald of misrepresenting and misusing his work [1]. David Lieberman has published a paper citing examples of MacDonald distorting evidence and choosing evidence selectively for rhetorical purposes [1].
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Centre, an institute that monitors neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, has said of MacDonald that "he put the anti-Semitism under the guise of scholarly work... Kevin MacDonald’s work is nothing but gussied up anti-Semitism. At base it says that Jews are out to get us through their agenda, ” adding that "“His work is bandied about by just about every neo-Nazi group in America.” [1]
John Toobey, president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara says that "group-selection theory"--the idea that natural selection can occur at the level of an ethnic group such as Jews as opposed to individuals--was debunked in the 1960s. [1]
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