Roberts and vdare

Yet another reader has told me he is offended by vdare.com’s continuing publication of the columns of Paul Craig Roberts, and I directed him to the following comment I made about that subject a few weeks ago:

However, I do not think it’s at all correct or fair to say that paleocons as such are anti-American. Serge Trifkovic, for example, who writes at Chronicles, has made serious proposals to defend America from sharia-supporting Muslim immigrants. At the same time, however, even the paleocons who are not themselves anti-American are buddies with the paleocons who are, and never, ever criticize them. Consider the way Peter Brimelow publishes every column by that raving bigot Paul Craig Roberts, despite numerous complaints Brimelow has received from readers and colleagues who say that Roberts demeans the vdare website and drives away readers who would otherwise be interested in its immigration restriction message. Why does Brimelow do this? Roberts, he says, is his friend, as though that explains and excuses everything. If Roberts were really Brimelow’s friend, would he insist, as the price of friendship, that Brimelow publish every unhinged hateful thing he happens to write, even if it contributes nothing to vdare’s primary mission and actively harms it? It would appear that, as Jared Taylor is to David Duke and the legions of Jew-haters in the AR circle, so Brimelow is to Roberts: he’s just a guy who can’t say no, to a nutcase.

And so, refusing to draw lines that must be drawn, even the more sane paleocons continue to marginalize themselves.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 18, 2006 02:48 PM | Send