VDARE

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Peter Brimelow founder of VDARE

VDare.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. This includes higher selectivity in legal immigration, favoring Europeans. Former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow supports the site through his VDARE Foundation. The viewpoints on the site range from immigration reduction to anti-immigration. 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 was transformed into a white doe.

VDARE's masthead includes:

Peter Brimelow, English founder of VDARE and an immigrant to Canada and the U.S. and a former editor at Forbes and the National Review
Paul Craig Roberts, syndicated columnist and a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration
Steve Sailer, a writer and movie critic for The American Conservative, especially controversial for his articles on race, human biology, and gender issues
Bryanna Bevens, political consultant and former staffer to a member of the California State Assembly
John Brimelow, Peter's brother and a financial writer
Joseph E. Fallon
James Fulford
Joe Guzzardi, a retired businessman and current English as a Second Language teacher in Lodi, California
Athena Kerry, the pseudonym^[1] of a young woman who graduated from an unidentified Catholic college in May 2006^[2]
Juan Mann, an attorney who operates the Web site DeportAliens.com, which advocates dramatically increased enforcement of current U.S. immigration law
Howard Sutherland (attorney), an attorney in New York
Brenda Walker, a San Francisco Bay Area immigration reduction activist
Allan Wall, a Texan currently living and working in Mexico, and married to a Mexican woman
John Wall
Chilton Williamson, an author and columnist who has written extensively about life in the American West

D.A. King, a self-funded activist against illegal immigration in Georgia, USA, who operates the Dustin Inman Society www.thedustininmansociety.org. King demanded to be removed from the VDARE Editorial Collective in September 2006. http://www.thedustininmansociety.com/blog/?p=309

Notable VDARE guest contributors include: Virginia Abernethy, Paul Gottfried, Kevin Michael Grace, Kevin B. MacDonald, Michelle Malkin, Rob Sanchez and Jared Taylor. Sam Francis was also a regular guest contributor until his death in 2005.

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.^[3] According to the VDARE website, Brimelow is currently a U.S. citizen.

1 Controversy and criticism
- 1.1 Hurricane Katrina and IQ
2 Selected Articles
3 External links
4 Notes and references

[edit] Controversy and criticism

Some critics of VDARE point out it publishes racist or racialist material. The nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), called VDARE a "hate group," [1] that was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page," but by 2003 became "a meeting place for many on the radical right."[2] The hatewatch group also criticized VDARE for publishing articles by Jared Taylor and the late Sam Francis, along with other authors who deal with race and intelligence.

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."[3] Fulford lists others who the SPLC points out are racist, and argues that the group's tactics hurt their own cause more than they're hurting genuine racism. Also, Brimelow argued in his 1996 book Alien Nation 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 of ethnic backgrounds, including Filipina-American (Malkin), Hispanic-American (George Borjas), one Native American (David A. Yeagley), and Japanese-American (Lance T. Izumi).[4]. All of these authors have faced allegations of being self-hating, or at least being at odds with the majority of people of their own background.

[edit] Hurricane Katrina and IQ

Main article: 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."[5]

John Podhoretz called Sailer a racist[6] — 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."[7] John Derbyshire defended Sailer, citing large variance in crime rates by race and birth rates for unmarried women by race.[8]

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.[9]