More on Hardin

from the article "Theories on East Asian Superiority" by Barry Sautman from The Bell Curve Debate:

"Apart from academics, the [Pioneer] fund aids political organizations and activists. The most favored ($1 million as of 1993) is the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates sharply reducing immigration into the United States. Its board has included prominent politicians and was recently consulted on immigration policy by [then] California Governor Pete Wilson. Its leader in the 1980s and current board member, Dr. Joe Tanton, has made clear that his concern is with 'third world' immigration, as has board member Garrett Hardin, a University of California at Santa Barbara human ecologist.

"Hardin fears an immigration invasion of the United States and praises Japan's efforts to avoid multiculturalism. He received $29,000 from the fund to write a recent book that associates immigration with decay and violence and explicitly endorses ethnocentrism. The book was also funded by the Laurel Foundation, distributor of Jean Raspail's Camp of the Saints, a novel lauded by Hardin that fantasizes about the destruction of the 'white race' in France through an immigrant invasion. Hardin's own book has been glowingly reviewed by Paul Fromm, a Canadian neo-Nazi with connections to [J. Phillippe] Rushton. FAIR in turn praises those financed by the fund as 'responsible, distinguished scientists associated with America's major universities..." (p. 208-209)

The link to FAIR is here. Obviously it isn't to be confused with the media watchdog organization of the same acronym. I do agree with its stance on HB-1 visas, however, but that's in spite of what FAIR says, not because of it. It doesn't change the fact it's been bankrolled in part by a racist foundation.

(I don't recall if Hardin has since died* after all of these revelations, but it really doesn't matter in the end. What reputation he had is down the toilet. Edit: A quick search didn't turn up any obituary, so I am assuming he's still with us in body as well as in spirit.)

Here is a speech Hardin gave which served as the basis of his Filters Against Folly (1985). The website belongs to the infamous racist Canadian psychologist and professor J. Phillippe Rushton.

And the thing is the ideas expressed by these fringe outfits and fringe and not-so-fringe academics are becoming mainstream within the ranks of the Republican Party.

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*--Garrett Hardin died in September of 2003. Somehow I didn't note it on this blog, or, if I did, it didn't show up on a search of the site.