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CSULB’s Home grown Racist Professor, Kevin MacDonald gets a dose of Free Speech from the Jewish Studies Program faculty. Kudos to the authors of the critique, and to Professor Jefferey Blutinger, Hillel Faculty Adviser, for leading the free-speech-faculty-discussion board charge. While most of us resort to four letter epithets when talking about pathetic faux-academics and haters like MacDonald, CSULB faculty supported by CSULB President F. King Alexander are holding the high ground, and exercising their own constitutional free speech.

The following is an excerpt from an email statement made on the faculty list serve today.

In light of the ongoing controversy regarding Dr. Kevin
MacDonald, the members of the CSULB Jewish Studies Program
have agreed to the following statement:

We in the CSULB Jewish Studies Program firmly believe in
and seek to protect the guiding tenets of academic
freedom, but we also understand that the mantle of
“academic freedom” can sometimes be used to advance
racism, bigotry, or other forms of intolerance. When
racism or other forms of intolerance are promoted in
academia, they undermine the principles upon which CSULB
was founded.

As a university, we have an obligation to maintain a
campus climate in which individuals from a wide range of
religious, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds can have
meaningful exchanges in a context of mutual respect. The
prejudicial views expressed by Professor Kevin MacDonald
in his writings and in his public statements are
professionally irresponsible and morally untenable.

We refer in particular to MacDonald’s close association
with the white nationalist journal The Occidental
Quarterly, his call for the creation of a white ethnostate
to “protect” the interest of white Americans, and his
repeated descriptions of Jews as a threat to white,
European civilization. Not only do MacDonald’s writings
bear a close resemblance to aspects of Nazi racial theory
(and, in fact, he relies on one such theorist explicitly),
but his writings are regularly used by white separatists
and neo-Nazis to advance their cause.

In his recent public writings, MacDonald is identified as
a professor at CSULB. These writings have damaged both
the reputation of the university as well as the
relationship between the university and the wider
community. The community has expressed shock and dismay
over these writings and asked why the university does not
disassociate itself from these white nationalist and
anti-Jewish statements. An analysis of these writings
shows that these concerns are legitimate. This has led
some in the community to mistakenly believe that
MacDonald’s work has the university’s endorsement. The
university should make it clear that MacDonald does not
speak for CSULB when he advocates any of the positions
described above.

We wish to make it clear that in no way do we wish to
impede Dr. MacDonald’s First Amendment rights or interfere
with his academic freedom. But just as he has the freedom
of speech to advance his white nationalist agenda, so too
do we have the freedom of speech to deplore his
prejudicial views of Jews and non-whites and state that
Dr. MacDonald’s writings on white ethnocentrism, Jews,
race, and immigration do not enjoy the respect of many of
his colleagues.

Dr. Arlene Lazarowitz Co-Director, Jewish Studies Program
Dr. Donald Schwartz Professor, History Department
Associate Professor, History Department

Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger
Co-Director, Jewish Studies Program
Assistant Professor, History Department