Steve Sailer’s Speech: “The Secret History of the 21st Century” (Video and Transcript)

Left: VDARE Editor Peter Brimelow and Steve Sailer. Right: Berkeley Springs Castle


Re-posted by N.S.

[Part II;

Part III;

Part IV;

Part V; and

Part VI, the Conclusion of Steve Sailer’s Speech.]

N.S.: Among other writers, Peter purged me from VDARE. He never said why, or even admitted he’d purged me.
June 28, 2023

Alden says:
June 29, 2023
@Nicholas Stix

“You’re my favorite blogger of all time. Because your focuses are black on White crime and affirmative action discrimination. And you never criticize and blame White victims of black criminals because horrors!!!! They’re out and about at 10/30 PM. Because they’re retail restaurant medical workers leaving s 2-10 pm shift or going to an 11/PM to 7:AM shift. Or jogging at 5/45 AM or walking at 5/45 PM or living and working in a county with a black population of more than 2 percent.

“First thing I remember is your articles at least 20 years ago about NYC blacks attacking White bus drivers and subway drivers. And setting fire to the subway ticket seller booths”

N.S.: Thank you for your kind words, Alden. And to remember an article from so long ago!

SAILER SPEAKS: “Did Black Lives Matter Get All Those Black Lives Murdered? Yes. Yes, It Did.” Left: VDARE Editor Peter Brimelow and Steve Sailer. Right: Berkeley Springs Castle

VDARE Editor Peter Brimelow writes: I regard Steve Sailer and John Derbyshire as the two authentic geniuses (genii?) we have published at VDARE, in terms of their apparently inexhaustible flow of new ideas, insights and arguments over a mind-boggling range of subjects. We were honored to host Steve at the VDARE Summer Conference at the Berkeley Springs Castle, WV, where he gave this keynote address on Saturday, July 17.

Hello, I’m Steve Sailer.

My title tonight is “Taking Diversity Seriously,” or “The Secret History of the 21st Century: How It’s Been Hiding in Plain Sight All Along.”

I’d like to thank everybody for coming to what is my first public speech in over a decade.

I’d especially wish to thank Peter and Lydia Brimelow for their imaginative solution to the worsening problem of political violence against freedom of speech and the decline in institutional courage in the hospitality industry.

I don’t know how many times over the last decade I’ve been booked to speak at a conference at some resort during their “shoulder season” only to have the threat of Antifa smashing up the place causing the contract to be cancelled.

I think Hunter S. Thompson might have appreciated that the solution to the problem of Politically Correct yahoo violence turns out to be a genuine “fortified compound,” or in this case, a castle.

The last time I was allowed to give a speech was at an early 2013 VDARE.com analyzed in depth the exit polls for the Obama-Romney election—that was a long time ago.

Admittedly, one reason it’s been so long is that I’m not, as you’ll perhaps come to notice, a terribly galvanizing orator. I like to go on and on about statistics.

But that also makes it curious why I’m such a controversial figure. Or, to be precise, I’m not actually a terribly controversial figure. I’m seldom denounced in the press, much less argued with, much much less invited to debate my positions.

I’m more this semi-legendary figure whose insights show up in diluted form in the work of the edgier name pundits like Tucker Carlson, Matthew Yglesias, Ross Douthat, Scott Alexander, and Elon Musk. But my name, it appears, should never be mentioned.

I’m not exactly sure why I have this odd status.

It’s perhaps related to my fundamental belief that all truths are connected to other truths.

In contrast, lies, wishful thinking, and ignorance tend to be dead ends.

I’m not a particularly methodical thinker or much of an ideologue. And I’m not big on making predictions, because it’s very easy to be wrong. I’m more focused on explaining: What Just Happened?

I’m less a forecaster than a historian of current trends.

Most of my writing starts out not from any grand scheme of mine, but by looking at the newspaper and seeing what people are talking about today. But I can usually come up with some connection of today’s headline to something else of interest, which in turn is connected, perhaps more surprisingly, to something else again.

[“It’s perhaps related to my fundamental belief that all truths are connected to other truths.

“In contrast, lies, wishful thinking, and ignorance tend to be dead ends.

N.S.: I have to respectfully disagree with my longtime colleague here. I speak of the landfill of lies, where “journalists” and “scholars” heap and endless pile of lies, on top of lies, on top of lies, and start their “things” with established lies, before moving on to new lies. And so, lies are not dead ends.]

End of Part I.