VDARE

VDARE is an editorial collective website which advocates for reduced immigration, including heightened selectivity in legal immigration into the United States. VDARE was created by former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow through his Center for American Unity. The political viewpoints of the collective range from paleoconservative to isolationist, and from immigration reductionist to anti-immigrant. VDARE is widely supported in the immigration-reduction movement through links and reprints of its articles.

Controversy and criticism

Critics of VDARE charge that it publishes racist or racialist material. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a controversial nonprofit organization, states that VDARE was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page," but by 2003 had "become a meeting place for many on the radical right."http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=286 The SPLC criticizes VDARE for publishing articles by Jared Taylor, head of American Renaissance, and the late Sam Francis, former editor of the newsletter of the Council of Conservative Citizens, both of whom the SPLC considers to be white supremacist. VDARE is also criticized by the SPLC for publishing articles by authors who deal with race and intelligence. The SPLC lists "VDARE/Center for American Unity" on a list of organizations it calls "hate groups." http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?S=VA&m=3

Related Topics:
Racist - Racialist - Southern Poverty Law Center - Jared Taylor - American Renaissance - Sam Francis - Council of Conservative Citizens - White supremacist - Race and intelligence - Center for American Unity

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VDARE claims to be neutral on all issues save immigration reduction. VDARE columnist James Fulford has responded to the SPLC's criticisms of racism and hate stating that they're unavoidable for immigration reformers due to that "the majority of Americans are white, and the majority of immigrants are non-white."http://www.vdare.com/fulford/southern_poverty_center.htm Fulford lists a number of individuals and organizations that have variously been called racist, and argues that the SPLC's tactics are hurting anti-racism more than they're hurting genuine racism. Peter Brimelow stated in his 1996 Alien Nation, a best-selling book, that he regards the term 'racist' to have become a political "smear" (p.10). He states that he considers "the only rational definition of racism committing and stubbornly persisting in error about people, regardless of evidence."

Related Topics:
James Fulford - Peter Brimelow

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VDARE contributors have responded to charges of racism by pointing to that VDARE carries original articles by authors of a number of ethnic backgrounds, including Filipina American Michelle Malkin (national columnist and author), Hispanic George Borjas (immigration economist and author), Native American David A. Yeagley (political writer), and Japanese American Lance T. Izumi (political writer and director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy).http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_090503.htm

Related Topics:
Michelle Malkin - George Borjas - David A. Yeagley - Lance T. Izumi - Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

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Stever Sailer

Steve Sailer, who often writes on race and intelligence issues, argued in a VDARE article following Hurricane Katrina, ?Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare,? that the lower average IQ of African-Americans found in intelligence research correlates with "poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups stricter moral guidance from society."http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050903_new_orleans.htm

Related Topics:
Steve Sailer - Race and intelligence - Hurricane Katrina - IQ - African-Americans

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This was followed by some accusations of racism, most notably by John Podhoretz in the National Review Online.http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_09_04_corner-archive.asp#075507 Sailer responded arguing that many of those making the accusations acknowledged a correlation between low IQ and poor judgement by supporting the Supreme Court's 2002 Atkins v. Virginia decision "that, in effect, banned the death penalty for killers with IQs under 70."http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/09/supreme-court-on-iq-and-judgment.html

Related Topics:
John Podhoretz - National Review Online - IQs under 70

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John Derbyshire defended Sailer in the National Review Online by citing large variance in crime rates by race and birth rates for unmarried women by race.http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_09_04_corner-archive.asp#075519

Related Topics:
John Derbyshire - National Review Online - Crime rates by race

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According to Peter Brimelow, Sailer's original article has been emailed out by readers (through the link to "email to a friend") at among the highest volumes seen by VDARE's articles.http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2005/09/05/sailer-vs-jpod-on-no-nightmare/

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