It is difficult to evaluate how effective Jared’s stump speech is these days. He is so reasonable and gentlemanly, his arguments so logical and politely expressed, I am afraid they don’t break through the thick crust of egalitarian indoctrination and the massive load of “white guilt” these young people have been burdened with since kindergarten.

Consider two questions from females in the audience. One asked (using different words, but with this meaning), “What gives whites any right to be in America at all, considering that the Indians were here first and whites stole their land?” If you accept the moralistic view that the white conquest of North America was one of the great crimes of history, requiring the mandatory atonement of race-suicide by whites, then there really is no answer. And from the way the young lady phrased her question, and her tone of voice, the only answer she would accept was precisely, “Whites had no right; they committed a monstrous crime, and they must acquiese and encourage their own displacement in atonment.” I don’t think such a person, who could ask such a pathetically brainwashed question, is reachable in a 30 minute talk.

Another female, apparently half-Arab, asked a typical quibbling race question, demanding to know if she was white, and implying that Arabs are considered white. Here, Jared forthrightly told her she was of mixed race, despite his acknowledgement that Arabs are, in a broad, general sense, considered white. I wish he had made clear he was advocating for the interests of that branch of the white race that developed in Europe over 40,000 years, and discovered, explored, created and settled the United States, and not the various other branches found in the Middle East who were not present and had no role in our country’s history. Her’s was the type question often asked to confuse the issue, the implied answer being that race is a social construct only, and has no real biological basis.

And as commenter Merlin V said earlier, the females are a big problem. The only positive responses I heard in the video came from males. Even there, the voices (the camera didn’t show them) sounded like somewhat older men, probably not college students. College students like Matthew Heimbach at Towson U. are extremely rare, it seems.

OTOH, I have personally spoken with females who are in “the movement” overwhelmingly because of Jared Taylor. It’s probably his old-fashioned male charisma at least as much as his overall intelligence, delivery, and message. But these – again – were older (though only a few years older) than college students.

Despite what might be perceived as skepticism above, I remain optimistic about the ability of Jared to do good things for our movement by speaking to college audiences. Indeed, I dream of a “Taylor Tour” around the country, speaking to, engaging with, and rocking the world view of, thousands of students. Our main problem is still access, or rather, the power of our enemies to deny us access. Nothing else explains why Jared Taylor is not speaking to 50, instead of two or three, colleges a year.