My father had an expression he loved to use: "Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are". Let’s apply those words of wisdom to Michelle Malkin, shall we? Who does she consort with? Who does she say she admires?
First off, she defends fellow weirdo racist Steve Sailer, enthusiastic contributor to the extreme right anti-immigration Web site VDARE.com. Check out his index here. She also calls Peter Brimelow a "friend" - after reading his contributions to VDARE, judge for yourself whether you’d want to associate with the likes of him. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled VDARE a hate group, prompting VDARE to label SPLC a "treason group" and "a crackpot shakedown operation preying on rich, paranoid old liberals".
For the record, the SPLC’s office was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1983. Over the years, several plots to bomb the center and kill the SPLC’s co-founder Morris Dees were thwarted.
VDARE.com’s contributors are also fond of using the "scientific" method to arrive at their "conclusions", a la Bell Curve, which not surprisingly tend to find that brown people are far less intelligent, far more primitive, and more inclined to criminal behavior than are whites. And white paranoia is alive and well among VDARE’s contributors - consider the entry titled "Report from Occupied America: CT Congregational Minister Wants Witch Hunt For Immigration Patriot".
This is a site Malkin is proud to contribute to, whose writers she defends on her blog. Draw your own conclusions.
Here’s the thing. Malkin has been given a pass for way, way too long, because she’s an extremely useful messenger of extreme right beliefs and propaganda. First of all, she’s good-looking and telegenic. Then there are the obvious advantages of her background. Who could be more effective as a critic of immigration than the daughter of immigrants? Or a proponent of internment of the Japanese than a fellow Asian-American?
From where I sit, I don’t care what her race is, or what her background is. A racist is a racist. I’ve seen who her friends are, and I know who she is.
UPDATE: Media Matters has more information about VDARE.
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