Leftists hate it when the so-called ‘extremists’ are right again.
VDare.com columnist Ellison Lodge has written an excellent piece in response to the intense publicity being generated by CNN’s recent article about the racial oppression that White Americans are now facing. You may read excerpts of it below:
Looking at the hysterical reaction of the far-left Media Matters to CNN’s March 4 article Are whites racially oppressed? by John Blake, one would think that it had celebrated VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow as a Civil Rights advocate. [CNN Article Legitimizes “Pro-White” Commentators, by Todd Gregory, March 4, 2011.]
Blake’s article was certainly a step above what normally passes for analysis about race in the Main Stream Media. But it nonetheless does reflect the standard left-wing view on race in America.
The fact that some right wingers are happy about the piece (even Brimelow’s reaction was uncharacteristically benign), and that the Left is infuriated, simply shows how the current paradigm on race is so badly slanted against the Right (and, of course, reality).
What got Media Matters so upset?
Usually, MSM pieces on “racism” completely ignore intelligent voices that defend white Americans. At most, they will give a few out-of-context or fabricated sentences to make them look unreasonable. To his great credit, Blake sought out Peter Brimelow and Political Cesspool host James Edwards.
Blake quoted Brimelow as saying “diversity is not strength.”
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Blake quoted Edwards as saying, “There is nothing wrong for Jewish organizations to promote the self-interest of Jews or black organizations to promote the interest of blacks…There is no organization to stand up to advance the interests of the dispossessed majority.” And that “Anything a white conservative does that a liberal doesn’t like is called racism.”
In the past, Media Matters did not argue that people like Peter Brimelow should never be interviewed, but rather that articles must emphasize just how much of a racist he is.
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But Blake was careful to say that the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to VDARE.com) has named VDARE a “hate site” and Edwards a “white nationalist”.(They don’t call Edwards’s website a “hate site” but they call his radio show “hate radio.”)
So what’s wrong? Media Matters’s Gregory writes:
“Another important point about this treatment of white racial anxiety: It is completely unfair to white people who don’t hold hateful views of minorities. If you are seeking perspective on ‘what white people think about race,’ you have committed journalistic malpractice by quoting people like Brimelow and Edwards. They can’t be said to be in any way representative of what white people think.”
Bunk! Blake did no such thing. He quoted Brimelow and Edwards along side three white liberal academics as well as neoconservative Mona Charen (who apparently thinks that a majority of whites voted for Obama) and a white Tea Party activist, who both gave the colorblind conservative line.
Gregory’s complaint was all more spurious because Brimelow was quoted saying that most of the Tea Party “quite sincerely” deny that they are focused on race. Brimelow explicitly said that he did not speak for most conservative whites, much less all whites.
Even for Media Matters low standards, this attack is a stretch. The message is clear: they do not want any Americans exposed to VDARE.com’s ideas in any circumstances.
Of course, if we applied the Media Matters standards in the other direction, there is plenty to gripe about in the CNN piece.
Blake describes Southern Poverty Law Center as a “group that tracks extremists.” We could object that they should be described as an ideologically-driven left-wing fundraising scam.
Additionally, the piece quotes Tim Wise, described as the “author of White Like Me”, as well as Matt Wray, “a sociologist at Temple University in Pennsylvania, who writes books about white studies” and Charles Gallagher, “a sociologist at La Salle University in Pennsylvania who researches white racial attitudes”.
Thus Gallagher and Wray are portrayed as disinterested academics. But they are both involved in the field of “Whiteness studies”, which is on the far left of the already slanted academic field (more on this later). A quick look at their CVs reveals several articles about “white privilege”.
Tim Wise is one of the most vitriolic anti-white writers. After the 2010 election, he notoriously yearned for the death of “white folk” stating, “We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will.”
But Blake’s CNN article absolutely no mention of the anti-white biases of these men.
The double standards in reporting aside, what about Blake’s initial question: “Are whites racially oppressed?”
Of course they are!
But Blake does very little to actually examine this question. He does not talk about how the Attorney General of the United States specifically stated that Hate Crimes laws were not designed to protect whites or Christians. He did not even mention Affirmative Action: i.e. government mandated discrimination against whites.
Of course, there is an important qualification to be made here. Unlike blacks in the time of Jim Crow, whites are oppressing themselves. If White Americans suddenly decided they would no longer accept anti-white discrimination, the problem would disappear overnight.
In fact, the real question of the CNN article is: Do whites believe they are racially oppressed? Blake gave seven indicators to suggest they are, and it’s worth going through each one.
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There is clearly a growing segment of whites who are beginning to realize that their government and elites stand against their interests. But as Peter Brimelow stated, it is largely on a subliminal level.
Or anonymous—some whites know the score, but are afraid of speaking out publicly. One need only look at the comment threads at most news articles or YouTube videos that deal with race to see far more politically incorrect thoughts than anything written at VDARE.com.
Are whites racially oppressed is no exception. The article is one of the most popular posted at CNN, with over 8,000 comments and some 40,000 FaceBook recommendations. While the comments are mixed, the majority support the concept with such heterodox thoughts as “”Anti-racist” is a code word for anti-White” and “Every white country on earth is told to become multicultural and multiracial. EVERY white country is expected to end its own race and end its own culture. No one asks that of ANY non-white country”.
These thoughts could become more explicit and less anonymous—which is exactly what Media Matters and its backers fear.
They do not want Americans exposed to VDARE.com and other unapproved sources because they are afraid that Americans will agree.
Read the completed and unedited report by Mr. Lodge by clicking here.