VDARE

VDARE
Founder(s) Peter Brimelow
Website www.vdare.com
Alexa rank Decrease 81,088 (April 2017)[1]
Launched 1999

VDARE is an American website focused on opposition to immigration to the United States and is associated with white supremacy,[2][3] white nationalism,[4][5][6] and the alt-right.[7][8][9] Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia describes VDARE as "one of the most prolific anti-immigration media outlets in the United States" and states that it is "broadly concerned with race issues in the United States".[10] Established in 1999, the website's editor is Peter Brimelow, who believes that "whites built American culture" and that "it is at risk from non-whites who would seek to change it".[10]

The group has been described as white supremacist.[2] The Southern Poverty Law Center describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites", including Steve Sailer, Jared Taylor, J. Philippe Rushton and Samuel T. Francis.[11] Brimelow acknowledges that VDARE published writings by white nationalists but said that VDARE is not a "white nationalist Web site".[12][13][14]

History

The editor of VDARE is Peter Brimelow, a former editor at the National Review[15] and Fortune.[10] The English-born Brimlow founded the website in 1999 under the auspices of the Center for American Unity, a Virginia-based organization that he also founded.[11] in 1999.[7] VDARE was founded as an outgrowth of Brimelow's anti-immigration activism and the publication of his book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster.[6]

Brimelow was president of the Center,[7] which funded VDARE.com until 2007, when the groups disaffiliated and the Center announced an intent to focus on litigation.[11] The VDARE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, was formed by Brimelow to take the place of the Center as the website's sponsor.[11] Brimelow's wife Lydia Brimelow is VDARE's advancement officer.[6]

The name VDARE and the site's logo, the head of a white doe, refer to Virginia Dare, the first child born to English settlers in the New World in the late 16th century.[7][16] Dare disappeared along with every other member of the Roanoke Colony.[10] Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia explains that "For Brimelow, Anglo-Saxon Americans and their culture are in danger of disappearing like Virginia Dare; he writes that he considered adding a fictional vignette at the end of his 1995 book Alien Nation, in which the last white family flees Los Angeles, which had been overrun by the crime and pollution caused by its non-white residents."[10]

Controversy and criticism

Designation as a hate group

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks extremist groups in the United States, wrote that VDARE was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page" but had become "a meeting place for many on the radical right" by 2003.[7] The SPLC describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites".[7] 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.[7] SPLC has describe VDARE's contributor list as "a Rolodex of the most prominent pseudo-intellectual racists and anti-Semites. They include names like Jared Taylor, who once wrote that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization; Kevin MacDonald, a retired professor who wrote a trilogy claiming that Jews are genetically driven to undermine the Christian societies they often live in; and the late Sam Francis, a white nationalist ideologue who wrote several key racist books."

The Anti-Defamation League similarly describes "that "VDARE posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites".[17][18]

White nationalist writings

VDARE is regarded as a white nationalist website.[4][5][19][20][21][22] David Weigel wrote in 2010 that the site "is best known for publishing work by white nationalists while maintaining that it is not a white nationalist site".[23] Brimelow "denies that the organization itself is white nationalist, but he admits that VDARE.com provides a forum for a variety of viewpoints, including white nationalism".[10][12][13]

Hurricane Katrina and IQ

Steve Sailer argued on VDARE following looting in the wake of 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".[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Vdare.com infosite". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. 1 2 Sam Frizell, GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech. Time, 21 July 2016
  3. ↑ Arnold, Kathleen (2011). Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 89. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  4. 1 2 Holly Folk, The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.com."
  5. 1 2 Robert W. Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.
  6. 1 2 3 Kristine Phillips, Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group’s views, Washington Post (January 26, 2017).
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Heidi Beirich; Mark Potok (Winter 2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center.
  8. ↑ Stephen Piggott (December 21, 2016). "Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months". Southern Poverty Law Center.
  9. ↑ Hannah Gais (December 11, 2016). "Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right". Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, "VDARE" in Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (ed. Kathleen R. Arnold, Vol. 1: A-R), pp. 481-82.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Extremist Files: Groups: VDARE, Southern Poverty Law Center (last accessed May 4, 2017).
  12. 1 2 Brimelow, Peter (July 24, 2006). "Is VDARE.COM "White Nationalist"?". vdare.com.
  13. 1 2 Brimelow, Peter (July 23, 2006). "VDare.com is no 'white nationalist Web site'". Rocky Mountain News. p. 5E.
  14. ↑ Michael Kunzelman, White nationalists raise millions with tax-exempt charities, Associated Press (December 22, 2016): "Brimelow has denied that his website is white nationalist but acknowledged it publishes works by writers who fit that description "in the sense that they aim to defend the interests of American whites."
  15. ↑ Sanneh, Kelefa (July 24, 2013). "A Sermon on Race from National Review". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Why VDARE.COM/The White Doe?". VDARE.com. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  17. ↑ Brenda Walker and Dan Amato Inject Anti-Immigrant Fervor into the Blogosphere, Anti-Defamation League (2012).
  18. ↑ Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream, Anti-Defamation League (2008), p. 11: "VDare, a Web site that publishes racist, anti-Semitic, and antiimmigrant articles."
  19. ↑ Alan Rappeport, Hillary Clinton Denounces the 'Alt-Right,' and the Alt-Right Is Thrilled, New York Times (August 26, 2016), A11: "The white nationalist website VDare..."
  20. ↑ John Woodrow Cox, The financial secrecy behind white-nationalist group known for 'Hail Trump,' Nazi salutes, Washington Post (December 1, 2016): "Three white-nationalist nonprofits similar in size and mission — the VDare Foundation, the New Century Foundation and the Charles Martel Society..."
  21. ↑ Caitlin Dewey, Amazon, PayPal and Spotify inadvertently fund white supremacists. Here’s how. Washington Post (March 17, 2015): "VDARE, a radical white nationalist site"
  22. ↑ Flynn, Kevin (July 15, 2006). "Funding questioned; Critics say some Defend Colorado money tainted". Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colo. p. 4.A.
  23. ↑ David Weigel, An immigration restrictionist chart at Mint.com, Washington Post (June 18, 2010).
  24. ↑ "Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare". VDARE.com. September 3, 2005. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
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