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Times of London, February 17, 1990 Peter Brimelow writes: Tom Brokaw hadn't instructed us that they were the "Great Generation" when I published this column on the death of my father for a British audience (London Times, February 17, 1990). Almost exactly ten years later, we
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Diversity vs. Freedom (contd.) You won't find this on the Washington Times website because, well, who cares? But on April 12, Page C2, the paper carried this short item: Man given 10 years for burning cross A man involved in a 1997 cross burning at Bowie [Md.] High
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Peter Brimelow writes: Like Steve Sailer, I kind of like Ron Unz, despite his propensity for Paul Gigot-type childishness like calling critics of immigration policy "anti-immigrant." (And me quote-unquote "respectable." What is that supposed to mean?) This is an extract from his enormous post on Steve
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Canada has invented another disease, to go along with speech codes and multiculturalism: the Queens University philosopher Will Kymlicka , a professional liberal ideologue who spends his time inventing rationales for political elites to pander to ethnic minorities at the expense of majorities. (The 3/28/00 Wall Street Journa ran
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Peter Brimelow writes: Department of Education officials claimed to be unaware of Jane Elliott's views in March 2000 when the former Iowa teacher told the DOE's speaker series on diversity that Governors George W. and Jeb Bush were racists etc. etc. But teacher union watchdog Michael
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I wasn't very hopeful about the London Economist's "Editorial Survey on America and Immigration" when I read the flyer being circulated to potential advertisers. (In the current climate, immigration enthusiasts never think of hiding their crass motivations.) And in fact the survey can'
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Peter Brimelow writes: It's a cliché of contemporary debate that America is a unique "Proposition Nation," not one of those nasty ethnically-specific nation-states in Europe. Anyone can become an American by subscribing to a set of abstract principles, etc. etc. Quack quack. In Alien Nation, I
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To great applause, the AFL-CIO has just reversed its opposition to illegal immigration and come out for ANOTHER amnesty. The political economy of this: [1] labor unionism is declining among native-born Americans, so immigrants represent a new market; [2] if illegals can be unionized, employers can't use them
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[NEW! COMPLETE VERSION!] Alien Nation: Round 2 The debate on immigration is hampered by the fact that immigration enthusiasts don't want it to take place Peter Brimelow National Review, April 22, 1996 v48 n7 p43(5) Adapted from the afterword to the paperback edition of Peter Brimelow'
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Alexander (8) came home from school yesterday (January 18) and told us that he'd been in some kind of play to dramatize an African American being turned away from a restaurant in the bad old days of the segregated South. In honor of Martin Luther King day. Sort
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Peter Brimelow comments: Pat Buchanan is a feline-lover and the Awful Truth, not apparently obvious to everyone for reasons that are inexplicable to me, is that he's really just a big pussycat himself. Today's immigration speech (Jan. 18), the first he's given in this
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What we think Pat Buchanan should have said on January 18, 2000 Peter Brimelow I want to begin today by reading you some words from the moral leader of our nation, the President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Before I do so, I want to remind you that,