Cancellation of 2010, 2011 conferences

In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, which Jared Taylor claimed included some death threats, American Renaissance's biennial conference was canceled. Taylor complained that the incident was largely ignored by the media, in sharp contrast, he claimed, with how news outlets would have responded had a civil rights group's conference been shut down.

Immediately after the cancellation of the conference, in a radio interview with the Derek Black Show

Derek Black Show

The Don and Derek Black Show is a radio program broadcast five times a week from the Lake Worth, Florida-based radio station WPBR-AM. Although WPBR has a large Haitian-American audience, the radio radio show promotes the ideology of white nationalism...

 on WPBR 1340AM in South Florida, Taylor described the forced cancellation as an obstruction of the right to free speech, saying it set a dangerous precedent and paved the way for scenarios in which animal rights activists might shut down a meat packer's conference or radical environmentalists could shut down a forester's meeting through the use of death threats. Taylor also appeared on Russian Television, one of the few news outlets that would interview him. In late October 2010 American Renaissance announced that they will hold a conference in Feb. 2011 in an undisclosed location in Charlotte, NC, the first time in over a decade the conference was not held in the Washington, DC area, and the first time it is to be held in an "off" year for the biennial conference. Although Taylor wanted to keep the location a secret until closer to the start of the conference, activists discovered it was at the Airport Sheraton, who promptly kicked the conference out of the hotel. Other hotels in the area began to follow suit, shutting their doors to the conference, and Taylor was eventually forced to cancel the event, holding instead a session in another hotel where the planned speakers and a few spectators gathered to videotape the speeches they were to give.

Lawrence Auster, a traditionalist conservative and self-described racialist, claimed that Taylor's appearance on Stormfront radio was part of a long-standing pattern of Taylor's in "consorting with anti-Semites" and described Taylor's Stormfront appearance as "morally obtuse." John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire is a British-American writer. His columns in National Review and cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race. Derbyshire's 1996 novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the...

, however, called the conference shutdown an "ominous" and "shameful thing", and asked for open debate and respect for the freedom of speech and association.

Alleged DHS memo regarding 2011 Tucson shooting

A document initially claimed to be a leaked Department of Homeland Security

United States Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...

 (DHS) memo alleged Jared Lee Loughner

Jared Lee Loughner

Jared Lee Loughner is an American man who is charged with the January 8, 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting that killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll. The shooting also left 14 others injured, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords...

, the accused gunman in the 2011 Tucson shooting

2011 Tucson shooting

On January 8, 2011, a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, with one other person injured at the scene during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes Safeway...

 that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Dee "Gabby" Giffords is an American politician. A Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, she has represented since 2007. She is the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to the U.S. Congress...

 and killed six bystanders, may have had ties to American Renaissance, which it referred to as an "anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government) and anti-semitic" group. In an interview with Fox News, Jared Taylor denied the organization ever used the term "ZOG" and said Loughner had no connection to them.

Despite the Fox News report, DHS officials the following day reported that "the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim." Furthermore, no such memo had been issued.

Major David Denlinger, commander of the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center acknowledged that the document came from his agency, but contained errors. He said that he has no reason to believe that Loughner had any direct connection with or was being directed by American Renaissance.

See also

• Biological determinism
  Biological determinism
  Biological determination is the interpretation of humans and human life from a strictly biological point of view, and it is closely related to genetic determinism...
  
  
• Paleoconservatism
  Paleoconservatism
  Paleoconservatism is a term for a conservative political philosophy found primarily in the United States stressing tradition, limited government, civil society, anti-colonialism, anti-corporatism and anti-federalism, along with religious, regional, national and Western identity. Chilton...
  
  
• Racial realism
  Racial realism
  Racial realism is a view held by some political groups and individuals which holds that racial divisions of humans are based in biological reality, and that racial distinctions are enduringly important because racial groups differ genetically with regard to such important behavioral tendencies as...
  
  
• Scientific racism
  Scientific racism
  Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racial superiority or racism.This is not the same as using scientific findings and the scientific method to investigate differences among the humans and argue that there are races...
  
  
• List of white nationalist organizations

Further reading

. — August 2009 cover story which approved of the label "race realism", to the ire of many white nationalist groups

External links

• Official website
• "Weird Science" January 30, 2005 by Dennis Roddy
  Dennis Roddy
  Dennis Brian Patrick Roddy is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania, working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.-Education:A native of Johnstown, Roddy was born the 4th of 5 children to an Irish American family. His father, Robert Roddy, Sr., was a steelworker and negotiator for the United...
  
  , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Critical account of an AmRen conference.
• Anti-Defamation League file on American Renaissance
• "Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'", Sunday, January 23, 2005, by Dennis Roddy
  Dennis Roddy
  Dennis Brian Patrick Roddy is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania, working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.-Education:A native of Johnstown, Roddy was born the 4th of 5 children to an Irish American family. His father, Robert Roddy, Sr., was a steelworker and negotiator for the United...
  
  , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Details connections between racist organizations and individuals such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, the British National Party, Don Black, and David Duke.
• Searchlight report on the 2006 American Renaissance conference
• Article summarizing many of the views of American Renaissance from an AmRen conference.