A contributor to Spencers Alternative Right site, Jason Richwine, co-authored an immigration report at the conservative Heritage Foundation, which later disavowed him when writings he had made mocking the IQs of Latinos surfaced. Breitbart has recently highlighted Richwines work, and Bannon praise
So if not that, why such vehement opposition? The answer can be found in the writings of Jason Richwine, who recently co-authored a study on immigration reform for the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Date: Jun 22, 2013
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Scaife-Funded Network Works Hard to Kill Immigration Reform
Rather than being embraced by Republicans to justify their opposition to reform, it was harshly criticized -- and became radioactive after it was revealed co-author Jason Richwine had argued in his Harvard doctoral thesis that The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower
Date: May 31, 2013
Category: U.S.
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Former head of Hispanic outreach for Florida Republicans jumps ship
The response to the Heritage Foundation report and to the news that Jason Richwine, who advised on it, had written in his doctoral thesis that Hispanics are less intelligent than whites, on average, was tepid, Pantoja said.
Date: May 15, 2013
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Republican Hispanic Outreach Official Becomes Democrat
Pablo Pantoja, who served as a Hispanic outreach official with the Republican National Committee last year, said that the recent controversy over a Heritage Foundation researcher named Jason Richwine who claimed Hispanic immigrants have lower IQs than non-Hispanic white Americans sparked him to leavon the GOP to present a more welcoming tone toward racial and ethnic minorities as well as immigrants. Although the Heritage researcher in question, Jason Richwine, was not a Republican Party official, his past work stood as an example of the type of mindset GOP leaders want to push out of the party.
Date: May 14, 2013
Category: U.S.
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GOP's problems with Latinos could get much, much worse - Washington Post
all the focus on outreach to Latino communities, Pantoja believes that there is a culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party. In a letter, he cites the recent revelations surrounding Jason Richwine, a former scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and his ideas on race and intelligence. AlThe combination of right-wing rhetoric and figures like Jason Richwine have created the perception of racialized opposition to immigration reform, where attempts to kill the legislation stem from anti-Hispanic bigotry. If the immigration bill fails, it could damage the GOPs relationship with Hispan
Date: May 14, 2013
Category: U.S.
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Immigration Opposition Prompts Hispanic Republican To Leave GOP
In a letter obtained by the Florida Nation, Pantoja blasted conservatives for a history of questionable rhetoric, pointing specifically to a recent study from the Heritage Foundation that was co-authored by Jason Richwine, an analyst who previously suggested in his doctoral dissertation that the IQ
Date: May 14, 2013
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Former GOP Hispanic Outreach Director Switches to Democratic Party
the disclosure that, for his doctoral dissertation at Harvard, he wrote that immigrants and Latinos in particular had lower IQs than non-Latino whites. The analyst, Jason Richwine, went on to argue that Latinos descendants were destined also to have lower intellectual abilities than whites.