Something does not have to be racist in order to be used for a racist purpose by people anyone would define as racist. I've read a lot of books like Bell Curve but disagree anyway. I've not read Jared Taylor's book, but I've read Pat Buchanan's books. There are a lot of bigots in the republican party but doesn't mean that the party itself or the platform is racist.
Saying "there are alot of bigots in the Republican party" is a bit of a broad generalization.
I appreciate your comments, djf, and agree.
cyborg, there is a difference between bigotry (extreme ethnocentrism) and ideological racism.
While the latter dehumanizes other races/ethnicities and espouses the legal differentiation of groups based on race, the latter is simply behaving in a natural, though ignorant, way.
Archy Bunker, though a plain bigot, was not nearly so much a racist as are those who promote multi-culturalism and want to balkanize our nation on the basis of ethnicity and race. And yet the former are shunned and the latter not only tolerated but allowed to dominate the vaqst majority of our universities.
Why is that do you think?