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Ann Coulter attended VDARE’s Christmas Party, piling yet another conservative onto the unapologetically white supremacist platform. We’re going to be seeing more of this, like Bill O’Reilly’s recent adoption of white supremacy. I had thought the normalisation of fascism and the open agenda of white supremacists might take at least a short while, but apparently not. The open embrace of white supremacy should be ringing alarm bells all over the place, but I no longer have even the smallest bit of faith in people hearing those alarms and waking the fuck up.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported Wednesday that Coulter was spotted Dec. 9 at VDARE’s annual gala and even gave an impromptu interview to John Derbyshire — a U.K. expat famous for being too openly racist for the National Review.
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“VDARE’s list of contributors, in fact, is akin to a Rolodex of the most prominent pseudo-intellectual racists and anti-Semites,” wrote the SPLC’s Stephen Piggott. “They include names like Jared Taylor, who once wrote that black people are incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization; Kevin MacDonald, a retired professor who wrote a trilogy claiming that Jews are genetically driven to undermine the Christian societies they often live in; and the late Sam Francis, a white nationalist ideologue who wrote several key racist books.”
This is Coulter’s second star turn at a white nationalist event since the fall, Piggott noted, “In September, she spoke to the annual “Writers Workshop” event put on by the anti-immigrant and white nationalist publishing house The Social Contract Press (TSCP).”
The TSCP is a Michigan-based publishing house that specializes in the writing of white supremacists.
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The election of Donald Trump has emboldened many U.S. racists and spurred them to reveal their true colors.
Via Raw Story.
Or at least his recent confession he adopted white supremacy. I suspect the point at which the positions advance therein started to convince him were a while ago, he just spoke of those positions in coded words and dog whistles.
Shiv, yes, that’s true, and confession would have been a better and more accurate word to use. White privilege, you get a whole lifetime of it! It doesn’t take much to make that privilege frighteningly toxic.
And one of the biggest factors to this normalization is the neutrality and both sidesism that these things are covered with in the news. It’s actually sickening. I was disgusted how quick even networks like NPR were to fall in line after the election results. Even Richard Spencer is talked about like he has a normal position, as if we have all had our memories wiped of what this viewpoint means and what it leads to.
Saad:
You and me both. The speed with which the normalisation happened is beyond terrifying. People around the planet are watching what’s happened here with horror -- they know what they’re seeing.
I read an article last week, about Germany becoming the new world leader, in terms of economy and social strength, and what some German people had to say about what’s going on here. One response keeps echoing in my head: “Hitler was elected, too.”