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| Owner | VDARE Foundation |
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| Created by | Peter Brimelow |
| URL | VDARE.com |
| Registration | Lexington Research Institute Limited, 501(c)3 |
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a white nationalist, radical right-wing website that publishes socio-political commentary pieces advocating for a moratorium on immigration into the United States and arguments related to race and American politics.
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 Jared Taylor, J. Philippe Rushton, Samuel T. Francis, and many others. The site was launched in 1999 and run by British-American journalist and former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow, who supports the site through his VDARE Foundation.
Since 2003, the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified VDARE as a hate group. According to the SPLC, VDARE is "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites." Salon calls it a white supremacist group.
History
VDARE.COM was established in 1999 in connection with the Center for American Unity, a Virginia based non-profit foundation started by Peter Brimelow. Brimelow served as the Center's first president but is no longer affiliated with the organization. When Brimelow left, he established the VDARE foundation in 2007, also known as Lexington Research Institute Limited, as a 501(c)3 charity to continue supporting VDARE.COM.
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; soon after her birth she disappeared with the rest of the early English settlement of Roanoke. In fiction, Virginia Dare was the main character in Sallie Southall Cotten's 1901 book The White Doe: The Fate of Virginia Dare. In the book, she is turned into a white doe by a Native American medicine man after she rejects his advances.
Contributors
Some of the most notable people associated with the publication include:
- Peter Brimelow, the founder of VDARE, writes often for the publication and has been an editor at both Forbes and National Review.
Categorization as a Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has classified VDARE as a hate group, that was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page" but by 2003 became "a meeting place for many on the radical right". 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. The group has also criticized VDARE for publishing articles by outright white nationalists Jared Taylor and Sam Francis. It has been called "white nationalist" by the Rocky Mountain News, a charge denied by Brimelow.
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".
National Review writer John Podhoretz called Sailer's comments racist. 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". John Derbyshire defended Sailer, citing large variance in incarceration rates by race and birth rates for unmarried women by race.
References
- "Vdare.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ Heidi Beirich; Mark Potok (2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration | Southern Poverty Law Center". Southern Poverty Law Center: Intelligence Report, Winter 2003 (Issue Number 112). Retrieved June 28, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Pareene, Alex (February 9, 2012). "CPAC welcomes white nationalists, Three noted white supremacy enthusiasts to host anti-diversity panel at conservative conference". Salon.
- "Lexington Research Institute Limited in Litchfield, Connecticut (CT)". faqs.org. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Why VDARE.COM / The White Doe?". VDARE.com. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- Sanneh, Kelefa (July 24, 2013). "A Sermon on Race from National Review". The New Yorker.
- "Groups". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
- Flynn, Kevin (Jul 15, 2006). "Funding questioned ; Critics say some Defend Colorado money tainted". Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colo. p. 4.A.
- Brimelow, Peter (July 23, 2006). "VDare.com is no 'white nationalist Web site'". Rocky Mountain News. p. 5.E.
- "09/03/05 – Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare". VDARE.com. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- Podhoretz, John (September 5, 2005). "The Most Disgusting Sentence Yet Written About Katrina..." National Review. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- Sailer, Steve (2005-09-06). "Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: The Supreme Court on IQ and Judgment". isteve.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2005-10-13. Archived from the original on 2005-10-13. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
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