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Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is a now-retired American professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), best known for his use of evolutionary theory to analyze Judaism as a "group evolutionary strategy".〔(MacDonald to retire in the fall ), daily49er.com, April 14, 2014; accessed August 16, 2015.〕 He is currently the editor of the ''Occidental Observer'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Occidental Observer )〕 which he says covers "white identity, white interests, and the culture of the West"〔 and is described by the Anti-Defamation League as having"become a primary voice for anti-Semitism from far-right intellectuals." MacDonald's most controversial claim is that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have culturally evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources. MacDonald believes this advantage has been used by a number of Jews to advance Jewish group interests and end potential antisemitism by either deliberately or inadvertently undermining the power of the European-derived Christian majorities in the Western world.〔("Understanding Jewish Influence I: Background Traits for Jewish Activism" ), theoccidentalquarterly.com; retrieved 2007-09-04.〕〔 *Kevin MacDonald. ''("Understanding Jewish Influence II: Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism" ), theoccidentalquarterly.com; retrieved 2007-09-04.〕〔("Understanding Jewish Influence III: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement" ), theoccidentalquarterly.com; retrieved 2007-09-04.〕 The university's psychology department, as well as the California State University, Long Beach academic senate, have voted to formally dissociate themselves from his work in 2008.〔 The academic senate issued the following statement: ''"While the academic senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald’s academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed."'' Two words — "condemns and" (which had originally appeared between "unequivocally" and "disassociates") — were removed before the public issuance of the statement. ==Early years== MacDonald is of German and Scottish ancestry. He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and raised in a Roman Catholic family.〔George Michael. ("Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism: legitimate scholarship or the intellectualization of anti-semitism?" ), ''Journal of Church and State'', September 22, 2006.〕 His father was a policeman and his mother was a secretary. He attended Catholic parochial schools and played basketball in high school. He entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison and became an activist in the anti-war movement. During this period, he perceived the East Coast Jewish origins of the majority of the movement there (''Culture of Critique'', p. 104), which motivated his interest in and eventual hostility to Jewish intellectual movements.〔 MacDonald became a philosophy major and abandoned leftist radicalism.〔 Between 1970 and 1974 he embarked on a career as a jazz pianist, spending two years in Jamaica, where (he taught high school ). By the late 1970s he had left this career in favor of academia. In graduate school, he became a supporter of E.O. Wilson's theory of sociobiology.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin B. MacDonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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