VDARE

'''VDARE.com''', or '''VDARE''', is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. Former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow supports the site through his ''VDARE'' Foundation. The viewpoints on the site range from immigration reduction to anti-immigrant opinions to white nationalism. Many in the immigration-reduction movement pass around links and reprints of its articles.
The name ''VDARE'' and the site's symbol, the head of a white doe, refer to Virginia Dare, the first child born to English immigrants in the New World. Soon after her birth she disappeared with the rest of an early English settlement, and legend says she transformed into a white doe.

Contents

Contributors

Controversy and criticism

Hurricane Katrina and IQ

Notes and references

External links

Contributors

★ Peter Brimelow, British-born founder of ''VDARE'' and an immigrant to Canada and the U.S. and a former editor at Forbes and National Review

★ "Athena Kerry", a pseudonym for an author who claims to have graduated in 2006 from a Catholic university.[1]

★ Steve Sailer, a writer and movie critic for ''The American Conservative'', especially controversial for his articles on race, human biology, and gender issues

★ Howard Sutherland (attorney), an attorney in New York

★ Chilton Williamson, an author and columnist who has written extensively about life in the American West
Sam Francis was also a regular contributor until his death in 2005.
Notable ''VDARE'' guest contributors include: Virginia Abernethy, Paul Gottfried, Kevin Michael Grace, Kevin B. MacDonald, Rob Sanchez and Jared Taylor. D.A. King, an activist against illegal immigration in Georgia, USA, is a former guest contributor.
''VDARE'' also carries the the syndicated columns of
★ Pat Buchanan [2],
★ Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, and Michelle Malkin.
Peter Brimelow immigrated to the United States from Canada in the late 1970s; he had left his homeland of the United Kingdom shortly after receiving an MBA from Stanford University in 1972. While he is a paleoconservative, he claims "many of the neoconservative leaders as personal friends" and immigration reform allies.^[1] According to the ''VDARE'' website, Brimelow is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Controversy and criticism

Some critics of ''VDARE'' claim that it publishes pseudoscientific, racist and/or racialist material. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), called ''VDARE'' a "hate group," [3] that was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page," but by 2003 became "a meeting place for many on the radical right."[4] The group also criticized ''VDARE'' for publishing articles by Jared Taylor and Sam Francis, along with other authors who deal with race and intelligence.
''VDARE'' has published several responses to the SPLC’s charges. In 2001, ''VDARE'' columnist James Fulford countered the SPLC’s charge that ''VDARE'' is “racist,” writing “this accusation … is intended to drive the victim out of decent society. The SPLC functions like ''Red Channels'' in the McCarthy era.”[5] In 2005, ''VDARE'' editor Peter Brimelow, who has famously said, “the modern definition of ‘racist’ is someone who’s winning an argument with a liberal,” [6] wrote “the SPLC is just a shakedown scam that preys on the elderly, Holocaust-haunted rich.” [7] And in 2006, in “Heidi Does Long Beach: The SPLC vs. Academic Freedom,” Prof. Kevin MacDonald discussed the SPLC’s so far unsuccessful campaign to try and get him fired from California State University at Long Beach, and its history of initiating campaigns to get those whose ideas it politically opposes fired, rather than contending with them intellectually.[8]
''VDARE'' claims neutrality on all issues save immigration reduction. ''VDARE'' columnist James Fulford says allegations of racism and hate are unavoidable since "the majority of Americans are white, and the majority of immigrants are non-white."[9] Fulford lists others who he says have been accused of being racist by liberal organizations (Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Frosty the Snowman, among others), and argues that the group's tactics hurt their own cause more than they are hurting genuine racism. Also, Brimelow argued in his 1996 book '', the term 'racist' is a political "smear" (p.10). He states "the only rational definition of racism" is "committing and stubbornly persisting in error about people, regardless of evidence."
''VDARE'' contributors respond to racism charges by noting that the site carries authors from various ethnic backgrounds, including Filipina-American (Malkin), Cuban (George Borjas), one Native American (David A. Yeagley), and Japanese-American (Lance T. Izumi).[10].

Hurricane Katrina and IQ

Main articles: Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer, who often writes about race and intelligence, 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."[11]
John Podhoretz called Sailer a racist[12] — and Sailer responded that his accusers admitted 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."[13] John Derbyshire defended Sailer, citing large variance in crime rates by race and birth rates for unmarried women by race.[14]
According to Peter Brimelow, Sailer's original article has been emailed out by readers (through the link to "email [this article] to a friend") at among the highest volumes seen by VDARE's articles.[15] Sailer also responded to John Podhoretz in “Podhoretz, Junior vs. Steve Sailer” [16], by quoting from a 1963 ''Commentary'' essay by Podhoretz’ father, Norman, “My Negro Problem—and Ours” [17], in which Norman Podhoretz made statements on black violence in character with Sailer’s.
“[F]or a long time I was puzzled to think that Jews were supposed to be rich when the only Jews I knew were poor, and that Negroes were supposed to be persecuted when it was the Negroes who were doing the only persecuting I knew about—and doing it, moreover, to ''me''… [It] was the whites, the Italians and Jews, who feared the Negroes, not the other way around.”

Notes and references

1. Today’s Letter: A Reader Is Tired Of Neoconservative-bashing; Peter Brimelow Sympathizes Isaac, Gideon

External links

★ Official website

★ "Keeping America White", an article by the SPLC critical of VDARE