Times blogger: MacDonald ‘blends creepiness, crackpottery and a surprising forthrightness’

Tim Cavanaugh, the administrator of the Times’ Opinion L.A. blog who I mentioned in my profile of Luke Ford, complimented the tone of my article about Kevin MacDonald (“perfectly dry”) and from it made a familiar observation of Cal State Long Beach’s infamous academic:

MacDonald himself, who blends creepiness, crackpottery and a surprising forthrightness into a weird form of amiability that I can sort of respect. I hate to use such a hoary cliché, but he’s a quintessentially American type of oddball, the kind you don’t want to listen to because he occasionally makes you say “Hm, he’s got a point.”

In case you don’t recall, MacDonald’s point is that Jews are too smart and far too well organized for his people’s good.

I agree with Cavanaugh to a point; as I wrote in the article, MacDonald’s “affable” and “seems every bit a slice of Midwest Americana.” And some of his arguments are uncontroversial.