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Buchanan Cites Racist Group in Education Column

Writing about education for Townhall(link is external), Human Events(link is external), and WorldNetDaily(link is external), Pat Buchanan refers to(link is external) the group VDARE to show the disparity between white students and students of color. Buchanan uses statistics(link is external) from VDARE to show that “U.S. reading scores [broken down] by race,” and then cites VDARE writer(link is external) Robert Weissberg to explain how “cognitive ability” explains the race gap in U.S. education.

VDARE.com is a White Nationalist group(link is external) that warns of(link is external) “America’s Darkening Future” where white Americans are the minority and embraces the “Sailer Strategy(link is external),” in which the Republican Party doesn’t reach out to minority voters and instead becomes the party of white America(link is external). VDARE writer Weissberg calls(link is external) affirmative action a “racial spoils system” and blames(link is external) problems in the education system on the “insufficient IQ of much of the population,” particularly blacks and Hispanics.

According to the review(link is external) in the conservative magazine The New Criterion, Weissberg’s “book will gain most notice because of its claim that certain sections of the American population, namely the blacks and the Hispanics, have lower IQs than whites and Asians; that this difference is genetically determined; and that, since the Hispanics are becoming a larger proportion of the population, the average IQ in America is bound to fall.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center labels VDARE as a “White Nationalist(link is external)” organization and says that VDARE “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.” SPLC reports that VDARE decries “the demise of white America, blaming immigrants, multiculturalists, and members of the ‘Treason Lobby’ — essentially groups concerned with protecting immigrants’ human and civil rights — for undermining the racial cohesion of the nation. Reflecting this position, VDARE.com’s archives contain articles like ‘Freedom vs. Diversity,’ ‘Abolishing America,’ ‘Anarcho-Tyranny — Where Multiculturalism Leads’ and ‘Why Immigrants Kill.’”

Buchanan’s use of his column to echo the overtly racist theories of an overtly racist group doesn’t seem to have bothered Townhall, Human Events, or WND. Will it bother MSNBC, which also gives Buchanan a platform as a pundit(link is external)?