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Hate Watch: Extremist Steve Sailer Is Source for CNN’s ‘Black in America’ Series (7/25/08) by David Holthouse
The Southern Poverty Law Center catches CNN featuring what Holthouse facetiously calls "the wit and wisdom of Steve Sailer, identified only as 'a columnist for the American Conservative magazine'":
What the CNN article fails to note is that in addition to writing columns and movie reviews for the American Conservative, Sailer is the founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, a neo-eugenics online discussion forum where right-wing journalists and race scientists have promoted selective breeding of the human species. He also writes frequently for the anti-immigrant hate site Vdare.com, named for the first white child born in America.
What is CNN doing interviewing a prominent eugenicist about what it means to be "black in America"? Not that there isn't precedent in their sourcing; see FAIR's Action Alert: Dobbs' Dubious Disease Numbers: CNN Host Stands by Faulty Leprosy Statistics (5/11/07)
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