VDARE.com vs. the Apparatchiks: Why We Need Your Support!
"Where do we go now? Germany?"
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Last week, towards the end of the annual VDARE.com Christmas Party, where I’d gotten to rub elbows with some of our generous, courageous donors (one of whom gave me a great article idea—thanks!), and one of America’s most brilliant (and funniest) political thinkers, I had the singular honor of being interviewed by my VDARE.com colleague, John Derbyshire. The syntax was correct—the Derb interviewed me!
As long-time VDARE.com readers are aware, a few years ago, John Derbyshire was suddenly fired elsewhere, as part of a Two-Minutes’ Hate. He had published a very important, clear-eyed, courageous essay on race—well, there you go. If you want to destroy your prospects in the “straight” world, just write an important, clear-eyed, courageous essay on race.
And he wasn’t fired by the racist Left, but by America’s most famous, supposedly conservative magazine, which yielded to pressure from the racist Left and (other) PC Republicans. He hadn’t even written the essay for the organ whose apparatchik-editor fired him.
Peter Brimelow immediately swooped in, and hired John to write for him. Actually, Peter re-hired him. You see, John had been writing for Peter several years earlier, but the supposedly conservative editor who would later blacklist (or as I put it, whitelist) John, ordered him to stop writing for VDARE.com.
This must have felt like déjà vu all over again for Peter, who had himself been purged by the founder of the same, allegedly conservative magazine, which led him to found VDARE.com on Christmas Eve, 1999. (An alternative history of “the conservative movement” in America can be told, simply in terms of the series of purges by that very magazine of America’s most vital conservative thinkers. In the meantime, said “conservative” magazine has condemned itself to irrelevancy.)
Peter has himself somehow kept VDARE.com going, in spite of having an apparatchik-nemesis in the philanthropic bureaucracy cut us out of one-third of our funding, and other nemeses later costing him his day job. The man is a wonder. The Boss sometimes rebukes me, “Why can’t you be like Peter?,” who somehow seems to squeeze 30 productive hours out of every 24-hour day.
Imagine a world, in which you couldn’t read John Derbyshire. This vital mind, beyond category, roams the intellectual and spiritual landscape, meditating, with droll wit, on immigration/politics, education, history, the arts, math, you name it. Wouldn’t that be a miserable world? You could read Republican and racial-socialist hacks on the Internet to your heart’s content, but no Derb.
The other day, our James Fulford gave an example of someone who, by the standards of the day, is intellectually and spiritually superior to James, John, and the rest of us. James had sent a VDARE.com press release promoting Peter’s essay, “7 Ways Trump Proved Us Right,” to a TV news station. The young female press commissar responded,
Peddle your racism somewhere else. Remove me from your mailing list.
The press commissar supports the black supremacist cop-killer group, Black Lives Matter, and the gangster moll and undesirable alien, Alicia Machado, who conned her way into American citizenship. The commissar calls Machado a “patriot.”
This is the world we live in: A person who celebrates all that is evil has no problem getting work, and an undesirable alien is made a citizen and lionized by the evil media, while one of the most brilliant writers alive today gets kicked around.
Peter founded VDARE.com, in order to pursue the National Question: “Can the United States of America remain the expression of a particular people?”, and to answer that question in the affirmative. Peter had already seen what Ingsoc (English socialism) had done, in destroying his beloved Albion, how biculturalism had wrecked his adopted home of Canada, and he was running out of places to run. He bet everything on America, including the lives of his—so far—five children, all of whom were born here.
The field in which this question will be answered, whether in the affirmative or the negative, is immigration policy, as Peter recognized already in 1992, at the formerly conservative magazine, and in 1995, in his seminal work, Alien Nation. All roads run through immigration.
Peter’s secret (or by now, not-so-secret) weapon is money. Unlike 99.9% of Internet publishers, he actually pays his writers. And he pays much better than “respectable” outlets. For example, 16 years ago, the same outlet that had purged Peter, would later purge John, and has purged most other important right-of-center thinkers published a major essay by yours truly on legendary black renaissance man, George S. Schuyler (1895-1977). My fee: The grand sum of $50.
About three years ago, The Boss—herself a naturalized, American citizen from Trinidad—mused aloud, “Where do we go now? Germany?” But last summer, when I sought to take my (actually, The Boss had something to do with him, too) 16-year-old chief of research on a last-chance tour of Germany and Paris, she emphatically vetoed the trip, based on the Islamic terror that had in the meantime gripped the nation that for five years had been my home, and which had also taken over the City of Light.
History is replete with examples of people who fled their homelands, when anarchy and evil broke out. That option is gone.
The just-concluded election vindicated so many things that Peter and, in his wake, many other VDARE.com writers have been saying over the past 17 years. But we are far from out of the woods. Please generously support VDARE.com!
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Stix
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