^false...don't like an argument, then just start throwing out the word racist. it has become the left's main go to and it is getting really frikkin old.
I understand your reservation with the overuse of term 'Racist'. But in the instance of John Tanton, the term is more than appropriate. Here are some of Tanton's beliefs / prevailing ideologies :
- He supported the 'White Australia' policy that limits non-European immigration into the country, and advocated the same for the US
- He defended the American Immigration Act of 1924 which includes a racial quotas/limitations of non-European descent. According to the Act's advocates, the laws were meant to "maintain the racial preponderance of the basic strain on our people and thereby to stabilize the ethnic composition of the population"
- His FAIR organization received donations from the Pioneer Fund for some time, a group founded on the principles of eugenics that supported the Nazi movement. It's founder, advocated for blacks to be repatriated back to Africa, launched the group in part to "prove simply that Negroes were inferior", and also made large contributions to oppose racial desegregation in the US.
- He has written directly to Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist publication American Renaissance, "you are saying a lot of things that need to be said, but I anticipate it will be very tough sledding".
- In his memo
The Case for Casual Eugenics he argued that a 'softer eugenics' movement was needed because "Hitler's reign in Nazi Germany did little to advance the discussion of eugenics among sensitive persons."
- He founded
The Social Contract publication, which often highlights the works of white nationalists.
I will post more but have to run.
Also, I put Heisman in a similar classification for statements like "The majority can't speak English, they have no skills, they refuse to assimilate, they replicate the toilet they just left, they're just as lazy as anyone else and they reproduce like rabbits on the taxpayer's dime." and "[Mexicans] are [m]ostly uneducated and low-skilled people and criminals."
I'm not saying these two are racist because I don't like their argument, I'm saying they're racist because they are.