VDARE

[[File:VDARE logo.svg|thumb|right|165px|VDARE logo: They killed {{wpl|Bambi, a Life in the Woods|Bambi|!}}]]
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'''VDARE''' is an "editorial collective" [[white nationalist]] website run by batshit [[paleoconservative]] '''Peter Brimelow''' {{lived|1947}}.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/2018/8/22/17768296/peter-brimelow-vdare-kudlow-white-house-racism Peter Brimelow and VDare, the white nationalist website with close ties to the right, explained]</ref> The site features articles by alt-right and paleoconservative writers such as [[Steve Sailer]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[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. VDARE also publishes hit-piece articles attacking alleged [[SJW]]s written by Lance Welton. The [[SPLC]] have noted that VDARE "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites."<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare VDARE]. Southern Poverty Law Center.</ref>

==Background==

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. Brimelow has admitted that VDARE does publish people who are white nationalists.<ref>[https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/4/14/ron-unz-donations/ Overseers Candidate Donates to ‘Quasi-White Nationalist’ Group] by Andrew M. Duehren and Daphne C. Thompson (April 14, 2016) ''The Harvard Crimson''</ref> VDARE has carried articles by [[fringe]] "[[Pseudoscience|academics]]" [[Jared Taylor]], [[J. Philippe Rushton]], and [[Kevin MacDonald]], who more than just flirt with overt [[racialism|"scientific" racism]] (or "racial realism", as they like to call it). It also carried articles by {{wpl|Samuel T. Francis|Sam Francis}} until his death in 2005.

VDARE ostensibly takes its name from {{wpl|Virginia Dare||,}} purportedly the first "[[English]]" child born in the [[North America|New World]], whose only achievement was being born. They [[Fun:Irony meter|apparently don't realize]] that this makes her the original "[[anchor baby]]."<ref group=note>Dare was born at the Roanoke "Lost Colony". Although no one knows for certain what happened to the [[colonialism|colonists]], it's well within the realm of possibility that the survivors joined a nearby [[Native American|Indian]] tribe, something that Brimelow ''et al.'' probably don't want to think too hard about.</ref> Perhaps more troublingly, it also recalls "Vidarr", the god of vengeance from [[Norse mythology]]. VDARE seems to want to take credit for popularizing the idea of a [[War on Christmas]].<ref>[http://www.vdare.com/articles/announcing-vdarecom-s-war-on-christmas-competition-2011-defy-the-deniers Announcing VDARE.com's War on Christmas Competition 2011 - Defy the Deniers!]</ref>
[[File:VDARE popular tags.png|150px|thumb|right|VDARE's popular tags section pretty much says it all.]]

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, albeit from an [[Isolationism|isolationist]], "America First" view rather than a humanitarian one. 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 picking|cherry pick]] the [[stopped clock|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 [[handwave|hand-waves]] accusations of racism by touting the fact that Malkin is a [[Philippines|Filipina]], as well as the minority status of other contributors such as the half-[[Korea]]n, half-[[Jew]]ish Marcus Epstein and the [[Cuba]]n-born George Borjas.<ref>[http://www.vdare.com/letters/todays-letter-a-vdarecom-contributor-worries-about-smears-peter-brimelow-reassures-him A VDARE Contributor Worries About Smears; Peter Brimelow Reassures Him] - Oh yes, really.</ref> 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 [[African American|black]] woman while muttering "[[nigger]]."<ref>David Weigel (June 1, 2009) [http://archive.is/TTMSz "Tom Tancredo Staffer Pleads Guilty to Karate-Chopping Black Woman"]. Archived from [http://washingtonindependent.com/45075/tom-tancredo-and-the-n-word the original].</ref> But look, [[friend argument|they've got non-white employees, so they can't possibly be racist]]! Adding to that, VDARE itself claims that [[No True Scotsman|Cubans are really "white"]] unlike most [[Hispanic]]s, meaning they don't have any employees that are either a) black or b) that they themselves would consider Hispanic.

==Controversies==

In May, 2020, a Facebook group connected to VDARE was suspended.<ref>[https://www.cyberscoop.com/qanon-facebook-removal-vdare/ Facebook scrubbed accounts related to QAnon and a designated hate group in April]</ref>

VDARE was banned by [[YouTube]] in August 2020 for violating its hate speech policies.<ref>[https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/vdare-youtube-ban-white-nationalist-twitter-peter-brimelow/ YouTube permanently bans white nationalist channel VDARE]</ref>

In June 2020, the domain registrar Network Solutions announced that they plan to terminate the account for VDARE for promoting white nationalist and anti-immigration views.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/online-registrar-threatens-drop-anti-immigration-website-71391728 Online registrar threatens to drop anti-immigration website]</ref> As of August 2020, the website has not been delisted.

==The end?==
On July 23, 2024, Brimelow said that he was resigning from VDARE and claimed that the VDARE website would be suspended soon due legal pressure from New York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation of VDARE's purchase of a Berkeley Springs castle in West Virginia, possibly misusing its nonprofit status in the process.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/peter-brimelow-vdare-blames-letitia-james-1929349 Right-Wing Leader Blames Letitia James for Killing His Business] by Anna Skinner (Jul 23, 2024 at 6:10 PM EDT) ''Newsweek''.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Steve Sailer]] — arguably the godfather of pseudoscientific online hate
*[[RationalWiki:Pissed at us]]

==External links==
*[http://www.vdare.com/ VDARE]
*[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare SPLC profile]

==Notes==
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==References==
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