Peter Brimelow Thanks VDARE.com Supporters, Ponders Michael Barone’s Surprising Conversion
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow’s daughters Felicity and Karia, flowergirls at their aunt’s wedding, June 2014
I generally run pictures of my two little girls along withVDARE.com’s fundraising appeals because, well, I like running pictures of my two little girls.
But I think this particular picture is particularly symbolic. The older generation, represented by myself and my giant (hint: I’m 6’0”) father-in-law are left behind, watching anxiously, as the younger generation, represented by Felicity and Karia, tentatively make their way forward to…what?
Well, in this case they made it all the way down the church aisle to the front pews, where they were grabbed by my older son and daughter.
But I am less confident of their future in the America that is being created by the government’s policy of mass non-traditional immigration. Karia will not even be 30 when, on current projections, whites—that is, the group known throughout most of American history as “Americans”—will become a minority in the country they created. There has never been a demographic transformation like this in the entire history of the world. There is no reason to suppose it will work.
And, of course, we of the older generation will not be here to protect our children from the disaster we created.
That is, the disaster some of us created. Ultimately, I edit VDARE.com because I hope to prevent that disaster, or at least to figure out ways to get through it. As I wrote in my introduction to the Kindle Edition of Alien Nation, “I Believe I Will Be At Least Exempted From `The Curses Of Those Who Come After`” ...
But tonight I want to end on a different, and even hopeful, note: by noting veteran political journalist Michael Barone’s just-published column Why Has Immigration Shifted?[RealClearPolitics.com, September 23 2014)].
I know Barone slightly and we’ve been systematically criticizing his knee-jerk immigration enthusiasm for some fourteen years (see here). Not once during that entire time has he ever deigned to respond, although a VDARE.com radio listener wrote me that, when asked about Alien Nation on the Radio America Network’sSchiffer Report,“Barone became indignant, describing you as ‘the guy who wants to restrict immigration because his son has blond hair and blue eyes…’”
(This scandalous revelation—it occurred only once, on page 11—was probably the most cited passage in the book. As far as I can see, it was never cited in its context: the paradoxical and destructive effect of the interaction between non-white immigration and affirmative-action quotas upon those native- born Americans who are not members of the so-called “protected classes,” as Alexander manifestly is not— I regard this hysterical reflex as further proof of my opening thesis in Alien Nation: current immigration policy is Adolf Hitler`s posthumous revenge on America.)
I’m not surprised at Barone’s refusal to debate—immigration enthusiasts typically never debate, they just rely on their access to the Main Stream Media megaphone to shout downopposition.
But I am mildly surprised by the completeness of Barone’s reversal in this current column—because, of course, “immigration” has not “shifted,” just Barone’s perception of it.
Barone now says ...
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