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VDARE (RationalWiki)
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

I have re-posted the VDARE entry from the leftwing pseudo-encyclopedia RationalWiki for two reasons: It mentions me, and it spells my name right. As an added bonus, everything it says about me here is true.

By contrast, the thread Nazis at The Pretend Encyclopedia, aka Wikipedia, work hard to keep references to me to a minimum, making up fairy tales, whereby they can’t be sure that I actually wrote the American Renaissance exposé on TPE (CarolMooreDC), thus that they can’t link to it, and when that ruse failed, ultimately soliciting other thread Nazis to censor such references tag-team-style (CarolMooreDC to Will Beback), and going so far as to threaten editors with banishment (Will Beback threatening Yakuman) for linking to my work (long since sent down the memory hole).

However, I was unfortunately unable to completely reproduce the entry. Although all the words are here, I had to delete the many internal links to other RationalWiki entries, because the source code presents them not as links, but as shortcuts, which on my blog would be dead-ends leading back to my entry, and thereby aggravating my readers.

I find it remarkable that the same code leads a double life. If I right click on the original page, and hit “view page source,” I get a basket of shortcuts behind many of the entry’s terms, but if I right click on any given hyperlink, I get the full link. Alas, I did not have time to individually copy and paste every hyperlink, though I made exceptions for the entries listed under “See also.”

Note some mistakes that the anonymous propagandist would not have made, had he familiarized himself with the topic. VDARE has never referred to Virginia Dare as “the first ‘white’ child born in the New World,” but as “the first English child” born there. VDARE identifies two other white children, Snorri Porfinnsson and Martin de Arguelles as having been born in the New World before Virginia Dare, in Snorri Porfinnsson’s case, about 500 years earlier.

The entry asserts, with false irony, “They apparently don't realize that this makes her the original ‘anchor baby.’”

VDARE has repeatedly dealt with this iron, sophomoric criticism: Since Virginia Dare’s parents weren’t immigrants, she could not have been an anchor baby.

A footnote contends, “Although no one knows for certain what happened to the [Roanoke] colonists, it's well within the realm of possibility that the survivors joined a nearby Indian tribe, something that Brimelow et al. probably don't want to think too hard about.

Actually, Brimelow mentioned that possibility years ago.

More iron: The hyperbolist says “Hilariously, a few of their writers seem to be fish out of water there, writing about civil liberties advocacy, opposition to war and globalization, and critiques of government power…” only to contradict himself in the next sentence, “Of course, this fits with the site's paleoconservatism…”

If the first set of positions “fits” with the second, where’s the hilarity?
 

VDARE

VDARE is a "editorial collective" website run by batshit paleoconservative Peter Brimelow. The site features regular articles by writers such as Steve Sailer, Michelle Malkin, Chuck Baldwin, Paul Craig Roberts, and Pat Buchanan on a variety of topics, and several writers who mostly only write for VDARE about race and immigration matters.

The site appears to be mainly a platform for Peter Brimelow's anti-immigration views, which veer frequently into playing footsie with overt white nationalism; the other topics are window dressing. VDARE has carried articles by fringe "academics" Jared Taylor, J. Phillipe Rushton and Kevin MacDonald, who more than just flirt with overt "scientific" racism (or "racial realism," as they like to call it). It also carried articles by the Sam Francis until his death in 2005.

VDARE takes its name from Virginia Dare, purportedly the first [sic] "white" child born in the New World. They apparently don't realize that this makes her the original "anchor baby."^[1]

VDARE seems to want to take credit for popularizing the idea of a War on Christmas.^[2]

Hilariously, a few of their writers seem to be fish out of water there, writing about civil liberties advocacy, opposition to war and globalization, and critiques of government power, oblivious to the mainly immigration-related and white supremacist tilt of the site. Of course, this fits with the site's paleoconservatism, as that philosophy is also opposed to militarism and globalization. Paul Craig Roberts is an obvious example, although VDARE is just running his syndicated columns, meaning there is no reason to ever read VDARE just to cherry pick the occasional good stuff since it can be read elsewhere.

The site is, however, a really good fit for Malkin's wingnuttery. In a great example of tokenism, the site hand-waves accusations of racism by touting the fact that Malkin is a Filipina, as well as the minority status of other contributors such as the half-Korean, half-Jewish Marcus Epstein and the Cuban-born George Borjas.^[3] It helps to overlook the facts that Malkin wrote a book-length defense of racial profiling and Japanese American internment during World War II, and that Epstein karate chopped a black woman while muttering
"nigger."^[4] But look, they've got non-white employees, so they can't possibly be racist! And add to that that VDARE itself claims that Cubans are really "white" unlike most Hispanics, meaning they don't have any employees that are either a) black or b) that they themselves would consider Hispanic.

See also

• Steve Sailer -- arguably the godfather of pseudoscientific online hate
  
• Nicholas Stix -- prolific NYC-based contributor to VDARE
  
• RationalWiki:Pissed at us
  

External links

• VDARE
  
• SPLC profile
  

1. ↑ Worth noting that Dare was born at the Roanoke "Lost Colony". Although no one knows for certain what happened to the colonists, it's well within the realm of possibility that the survivors joined a nearby Indian tribe, something that Brimelow et al. probably don't want to think too hard about.
2. ↑ Announcing VDARE.com's War on Christmas Competition 2011 - Defy the Deniers!
3. ↑ A VDARE Contributor Worries About Smears; Peter Brimelow Reassures Him - Oh yes, really.
4. ↑ Tom Tancredo Staffer Pleads Guilty to Karate-Chopping Black Woman