{"id":128714,"date":"2019-10-23T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=128714"},"modified":"2019-10-23T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:03:26","slug":"the-reviled-right-sailer-on-andrew-marantzs-the-sailer-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=128714","title":{"rendered":"The Reviled Right: Sailer on Andrew Marantz’s “The Sailer Strategy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes for Takimag<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 2019, two books demanding more censorship have each devoted a chapter to portraying me as a historic villain.<\/p>\n

In the first, Angela Saini\u2019s Superior: The Return of Race Science, I was cast as a bad guy along with Sir Francis Galton, James D. Watson, David Reich, Morrissey, and Albert Einstein, which, I must say, is pretty cool company.<\/p>\n

Sadly, in New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz\u2019s new Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, the chapter about me (\u201cThe Sailer Strategy\u201d) is folded in amidst interminable profiles of right-wing nutrition supplement hucksters like that Ape Brain guy, which I found less edifying than being included on Saini\u2019s list of evil great white men.<\/p>\n

Both authors are convinced that I helped hijack something big, although they disagree about whether it was science or politics. (I\u2019ve been busy, apparently.)<\/p>\n

Marantz has a noticeably higher IQ than Saini \u2026 But Marantz\u2019s Ctrl-Left thesis is much the same as Saini\u2019s: Something must be done about all the bad people, like me, who have been \u201chijacking the American conversation\u201d with our control of the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n