Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "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'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.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."@en }
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- Kevin_B._MacDonald abstract "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'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.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.".