Marcus Epstein's Ethnicity

Those in the paleosphere have probably heard how this young contributer to Taki's Magazine was accused by the Grey Lady of "racialist extremism" for suggesting that the Republican Party's "pander[ing] to pro-amnesty Hispanics and swing voters" did little to help it in the past election — The Nativists Are Restless.

Well, expat Korea's premier blogger sheds some light on Mr. Epstein — Half-Korean White Supremacist? The news comes from John Derbyshire, who, referring to his Chinese wife, once "joked that the only reason he was not an open white nationalist was because 'it would get me in trouble at home.'" He has also said, "I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one."