07-19-2016, 08:31 PM
(07-19-2016, 08:23 PM)Dan Wrote:
VDARE
VDARE is an American website that publishes socio-political commentary pieces, particularly focusing on advocating for a moratorium on immigration into the United States as well as arguments related to race and American politics.[2] According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, VDARE is "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites."[2] Salon calls it a white supremacist group.[3] VDARE editor Peter Brimelow rejected Southern Poverty Law Center's accusations as guilt by association.[4]
The name VDARE refers to Virginia Dare, the first child born to English settlers in the New World (in 1587). Contributors to the website have included Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, J. Philippe Rushton, Samuel T. Francis, and many others.[2] The site was launched in 1999 and run by journalist/editor Peter Brimelow, who supports the site through his VDARE Foundation.
Designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), VDARE was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page"; which, according to the SPLC, had become by 2003 "a meeting place for many on the radical right".[2] The SPLC describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites."[2]
The SPLC cited examples such as a column concerning immigration from Mexico that warned of a "Mexican invasion" where "high teenage birthrates, poverty, ignorance and disease will be what remains," and an essay complaining how the U.S. Government encourages "the garbage of Africa" to come to the United States.[2] SPLC criticized VDARE for publishing articles by Jared Taylor and Sam Francis, whom it has called "outright white nationalists".[2] VDARE was labeled "white nationalist" by the Rocky Mountain News, a charge which Brimelow denied in an op-ed published by the newspaper in 2006.[8][9]
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VDARE editor [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brimelow]Peter Brimelow rejected the SPLC accusations as "guilt by association". Writing that "We have published writers of all races, and most political tendencies—including self-identified 'progressives.'" and "We are certainly politically incorrect—but the merest glance would show that we are not "white nationalist."[4]
Hurricane Katrina and IQ
Steve Sailer argued on VDARE following Hurricane Katrina that the lower average IQ of African-Americans found in intelligence research correlates with "poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups resulting in the need for stricter moral guidance from society". He said that looting after the 1995 Kobe earthquake was minimal because "when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks".[10]
National Review writer John Podhoretz called Sailer's comments racist.[11] Sailer responded that his accusers had acknowledged a correlation between low IQ and poor judgment by supporting the Supreme Court's 2002 Atkins v. Virginia decision "that, in effect, banned the death penalty for killers with IQs under 70".[12] John Derbyshire defended Sailer, citing large variance in incarceration rates by race and birth rates for unmarried women by race.[13]
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Nasty group of racists.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.