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It鈥檚 one thing to falsely accuse an organization of connections that haven鈥檛 been verified. It鈥檚 another thing altogether to claim that an organization isn鈥檛 what it is.

In the immediate wake of the Jan. 9 Tucson shooting 鈥� in which six people died and 13, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, were injured聽鈥� Fox News ran with a document supposedly leaked from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security suggesting that the presumed shooter, , had ties to the white nationalist journal (AR).

That report turned out to be erroneous; the document didn鈥檛 come from DHS but the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, a local law enforcement agency. The document鈥檚 contents, meant only for internal consumption, were speculative and, ultimately, almost certainly inaccurate. Fox News later had to refute its own scoop.

Right-wing propagandist extraordinaire , principal of the ironically named website, quickly seized on Fox鈥檚 gaffe. But it wasn鈥檛 to criticize weak journalism or to refute the idea that Loughner might have been a racially motivated killer. It was to take up the American Renaissance banner.

鈥淲hile American Renaissance is critical of government affirmative action programs and unrestricted immigration, there is no evidence of anti-Semitism, and there is no evidence that American Renaissance by any objective standard is a racist organization,鈥� Kincaid wrote. 鈥淚t does deal with racial issues. But so does the Congressional Black Caucus.鈥�

It鈥檚 true that American Renaissance and its chief, , are not anti-Semitic. In fact, a basically ended with Taylor denouncing anti-Semitism, if somewhat weakly. But not a racist organization? All it does is 鈥渄eal with racial issues?鈥�

American Renaissance and its parent organization, the New Century Foundation, have been on a singular, focused mission since Jared Taylor created them in the early 1990s: Proving the innate inferiority of non-white people.

鈥淣ever in the history of the world has a dominant people thrown open the gates to strangers, and poured its wealth out to aliens,鈥� Taylor wrote in his magazine, under the pseudonym Thomas Jackson, in 1991. 鈥淎ll healthy people prefer the company of their own kind.鈥� Blacks, Taylor has written, are "crime-prone," "dissipated," "pathological" and "deviant."

The passage of time did not ameliorate Taylor鈥檚 rhetoric; AR spent the ensuing two decades reiterating these themes, to the delight of white supremacists both domestic and international. In a 2005 American Renaissance essay, 鈥淎frica in our Midst: Lessons from Katrina,鈥� Taylor concluded that "the barbaric behavior" of the city's black population after the hurricane revealed a key truth: 鈥淏lacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization 鈥攁ny kind of civilization 鈥� disappears. And in a crisis, it disappears overnight.鈥� The article is still featured on the front page of AR鈥檚 website.

Or consider this, from a July 2008 piece on AR鈥檚 website: 鈥淎t its most basic, racial consciousness has as its goal the preservation of a certain people. Its aim is to rekindle among whites 鈥� an instinctive preference for their own people and culture, and a strong desire that they should prosper.鈥�

Here鈥檚 how Merriam-Webster defines the word 鈥渞acism鈥�: 鈥淸A] belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.鈥� Here鈥檚 the Oxford dictionaries: 鈥淸T]he belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.鈥� And American Heritage Dictionary: 鈥淭he belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.鈥� Either Kincaid is operating with a dictionary created in a parallel universe, or his cognitive dissonance has shifted into overdrive.

The AR site also regularly publishes proponents of 鈥� the long-discredited pseudo-science of race breeding 鈥� and overt anti-black and anti-Latino racists. Virtually every mention of a social dynamic is accompanied by an overt or implicit explanation that race, and no other factor 鈥� such as economic class, unequal opportunity, history or any other 鈥� explains any observed disparities.

One is left to wonder what, in Kincaid鈥檚 assessment, would qualify any organization as racist, if American Renaissance is to be regarded as being as racially innocuous as the Congressional Black Caucus 鈥� which has never claimed that black people are superior to other races. More likely, what Kincaid鈥檚 view reveals is his own orientation: If racists seem benign to you, what does that make you?