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VDARE
Type of site
Far-right politics[1]
OwnerVDARE Foundation
Founder(s)Peter Brimelow
URLvdare
Launched1999;25 years ago(1999)

VDAREis an Americanfar-right[1]website promotingoppositiontoimmigration to the United States.[6]It is associated withwhite supremacy,[7][8][9]white nationalism,[17]and thealt-right.[18][19][20]Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopediadescribes VDARE as "one of the most prolific anti-immigration media outlets in the United States" and states that it is "broadly concerned with race issues in the United States".[21]Established in 1999, the website's editor isPeter Brimelow,who once stated that "whites built American culture" and that "it is at risk from non-whites who would seek to change it".[21]

TheSouthern Poverty Law Centerdescribes VDARE as "an anti-immigrationhate website"that" regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists,race scientists,andanti-Semites",includingSteve Sailer,Jared Taylor,J. Philippe Rushton,Samuel T. Francis,John Derbyshire[6]andPat Buchanan.[22]Brimelow acknowledges that VDARE published writings by white nationalists but has said that VDARE is not a "white nationalist Web site".[23][24]

History[edit]

Postage stamp depictingVirginia Dare(child in middle), the namesake of the website.

Peter Brimelow,who edits VDARE, is a former editor at theNational Review[25]andFortune.[21]The English-born Brimelow founded the website in 1999 under the auspices of the Center for American Unity, aVirginia-based organization that he also founded[22]in 1999.[18]VDARE was founded as an outgrowth of Brimelow's anti-immigration activism and the publication of his bookAlien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster.[12]The website says it is concerned with the "racial and culture identity of America" and "honest consideration of race and ethnicity, the foundations of human grouping, that human differences can be explained and their social consequences understood, whether those differences are philosophical, cultural or biological."[26]

Brimelow was president of the center,[18]which funded VDARE until 2007, when the center announced an intent to focus onlitigation.[22]The VDARE Foundation, a501(c)(3)organization, was formed by Brimelow to take the place of the center as the website's sponsor.[22]Brimelow's wife, Lydia Brimelow, is VDARE's advancement officer.[12]

The nameVDAREand the site's logo, the head of a whitedoe,refer toVirginia Dare,the first child born toEnglishsettlers in theNew Worldin the late 16th century.[18][27]Dare disappeared along with every other member of theRoanoke Colony.[21]Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopediaexplains that "For Brimelow,Anglo-SaxonAmericans and their culture are in danger of disappearing like Virginia Dare; he writes that he considered adding a fictional vignette at the end of his bookAlien Nation(1995), in which the last white family flees Los Angeles, which had been overrun by the crime and pollution caused by its non-white residents. "[21]

Brimelow has written on the site that United States immigration policy constitutes "Adolf Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America ". In a radio interview withAlan Colmes,he said he wished to return to the US immigration policies before 1965, when restrictions to non-whites were lifted, as "the US is a white nation."[citation needed]

New York Attorney General investigation[edit]

In February 2020, the VDARE Foundation purchased theSamuel Taylor Suit Cottage(also known as the Berkeley Castle or Berkeley Springs Castle), aMedieval-stylecastlelocated on a hill aboveBerkeley Springs,in theEastern PanhandleofWest Virginia,for $1.4 million.[28]New York Attorney General(NYAG)Letitia Jamesalleged that VDARE had violated New York law by misusing non-profit resources while residing on the castle grounds since March 2020.[29][30]

In March 2024, a New York state judge found the VDARE Foundation incivil contemptfor failing to turn over evidence related to the investigation. The organization is required to pay a $250-per-day fine until it complies with a subpoena issued by the NYAG in 2022.[30]

Hate speech and white nationalism[edit]

Designation as a hate website[edit]

TheSouthern Poverty Law Center(SPLC), which tracks extremist groups in the United States, wrote that VDARE was "once a relatively mainstream anti-immigration page" but had become "a meeting place for many on theradical right"by 2003.[18]The SPLC describes VDARE as "an anti-immigration hate website" which "regularly publishes articles by prominentwhite nationalists,race scientistsandanti-Semites".[18]The SPLC cited examples such as a column concerning immigration fromMexicothat warned of a "Mexican invasion" where "highteenage birthrates,poverty,ignorance and disease will be what remains ", and an essay complaining how theU.S. governmentencourages "the garbage ofAfrica"to come to the United States.[18]

The SPLC has described VDARE's contributor list as "aRolodexof the most prominent pseudo-intellectual racists and anti-Semites. They include people such asJared TaylorandKevin MacDonald.[18]Taylor (who Brimelow acknowledges is a "white nationalist" )[22]once wrote thatblack peopleare incapable of sustaining any kind of civilization, while MacDonald is a retired professor who wrote a trilogy claiming thatJewsare genetically driven to undermine theChristian societiesthey live in. Another (former contributor),Sam Francis,was the editor of a newspaper published by theCouncil of Conservative Citizens,a white supremacist group.[18]Francis died in 2005.[22]

TheAnti-Defamation League(ADL) similarly concludes that "VDARE posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites".[31][32]

Attempted domain name delisting[edit]

In June 2020, the domain registrarNetwork Solutionsannounced plans to terminate the account for VDARE. An attorney for Network Solutions cited a policy prohibiting customers using its domains from "display[ing] bigotry, racism, discrimination, or hatred in any manner whatsoever", and stated that VDARE had until June 26 to transfer itsdomain nameto a different registrar before it would be deleted.[33][34]An update to its WHOIS data was made on June 26, 2020.[35]As of 2023,the domain exists under a different registrar.[36]

Social media presence and bans[edit]

In August 2019, VDARE'sYouTubechannel was banned. The ban was later reversed.[37]The channel was permanently banned in August 2020 for violating YouTube's policies againsthate speech.[38]

In November 2019,The Guardianidentified VDARE as one of several white nationalist websites which had remained active onFacebook,contrary to Facebook's stated intention to ban such material.[39]In May 2020, VDARE and the similar websiteThe Unz Reviewwere banned by Facebook. According to Facebook, the sites formed a network of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" intended to influence the 2020 election via fake accounts.[40][41]

As of October 2023, VDARE operates a verifiedTwitteraccount.[42]

White nationalist writings[edit]

VDARE is regarded as awhite nationalistwebsite.[17]David Weigelwrote in 2010 that the site "is best known for publishing work by white nationalists while maintaining that it is not a white nationalist site".[43]

Brimelow "denies that the organization itself is white nationalist, but he admits that VDARE provides a forum for a variety of viewpoints, including white nationalism".[21][23]Of individuals like Taylor, Brimelow has written they "aim to defend the interests of American whites. They are not white supremacists. They do not advocate violence. They are rational and civil." As immigration from the developing world increases, he believes "this type of interest-group 'white nationalism' will inexorably increase."[22]Brimelow has participated on panels multiple times with Taylor andRichard Spenceron the aims of thealt-right.[26]

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