Surprise! Pat Buchanan Reads VDARE
December 28, 2010 11:21 am ET by Jamison Foser
I know, there's something of a dog-bites-man quality to learning that Pat Buchanan reads a rabidly anti-immigrant website. But Buchanan continues to enjoy the favor (or at least acceptance) of a not-insignificant portion of the media elite, so the fact that he apparently browses a white nationalist site for column ideas is worth noting.
Here's a portion of Buchanan's latest column:
Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.
Steve Sailer of VDARE.com got the full list of 65 nations, broke down U.S. reading scores by race, then measured Americans with the countries and continents whence their families originated. What he found was surprising.
Asian-Americans outperform all Asian students except for Shanghai-Chinese. White Americans outperform students from all 37 predominantly white nations except Finns, and U.S. Hispanics outperformed the students of all eight Latin American countries that participated in the tests.
African-American kids would have outscored the students of any sub-Saharan African country that took the test (none did) and did outperform the only black country to participate, Trinidad and Tobago, by 25 points.
America's public schools, then, are not abject failures.
They are educating immigrants and their descendants to outperform the kinfolk their parents or ancestors left behind when they came to America.
Steve Sailer has been an advocate of the Pioneer Fund, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its support for white supremacists. Sailer has written that African Americans "tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society," a passage conservative columnist John Podhoretz aptly described as "shockingly racist." VDARE is an anti-immigrant website that publishes what its editor describes as "white nationalist" works, and is also identified as a hate group by SPLC.
That's who Pat Buchanan turns to for inspiration: an author of "shockingly racist" screeds for a white nationalist website. But, hey: Big day for Steve Sailer, right? For a VDARE columnist, getting cited by Pat Buchanan must be like an aspiring writer finding out that Tom Wolfe is a fan.
This admission, coming from a Troglodyte like Pat, is quite profound. One of the cornerstones of the modern conservative "movement" has been that dismantling the Public Education system is necessary to save the Republic.
Are they all taking the same test? Does Sailer know what he's talking about?
As I interpret that, it's not race, per se, but a breakdown by (probably self-professed) nationality within each sample country group. Sailer is apparently conflating this with race.
Now? As opposed to when? I don't recall a time when racism wasn't commonplace.
It's so much easier for me. Everybody, regardless of race or any other factor, is inferior.
Honestly, of all the images you could pick, you pick one for a business that's from my neck of the backwoods?
In the U.S. this has been complicated by the lie inherent in the Declaration of Independence which, in order to preserve the institution of slavery, was subverted. All sorts of racist lies were concocted as legal fictions to justify the unjustifiable. Until this National Original Sin i.e. the subverting of the preamble to the founding document of the nation, has been dealt with as a nation the U.S. will have more than just the loopy ravings of immature loudmouths to deal with.
Racism did become more covert for a while but thanks to Paladino,Gingrich,Limbaugh,Beck,Palin,Buchanan,Wilson,Savage,Breitbart,
Williams,some Tea Party members,etc it is now fashionable to just claim reverse racism so you can get to say whatever you want ..if you are a conservative.Was that Dr Laura that just got a nice,new well- paying gig..When will Tucker Carlson be fired for what he just said....execute Vick but don't dare prosecute Bush and Cheney for causing thousands of human deaths in Iraq??? Two(human) rape charges for Ben Rothlisberger ..no jail time ..no condemnation from Tucker either!!!!
The vast population of America's public, private, and home schools are made up of either immigrants or their descendants. What is the point here: that America's public schools aren't so bad, or that we shouldn't be educating these "immigrants and their descendants" (which, like I said, are the vast majority of us)?
This is weird. I wonder if they're aware of their betrayal of their own narratives they've been repeating ad nauseam for decades.
They've become so used to the corporate media allowing them to wander in and out of the land of hypocrisy, they don't even realize it themselves anymore.
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9810071E.PDF
just shows you what a bunch of buffoons the hard right is, and why they are so obtuse to reality..... pat b. is a laff a minute riot since his days as nixons hit man........
They don't even realise that they've created an impossibility as their perception of "reality"!
The downside of being confronted by this level of stupidity is that it is impossible to debate people whose concept of the world bears no relationship possibility, let alone reality.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did Sarah Palin support his bid for president a few years ago? Does she share the same view as Buchanan?
And this woman is thinking of running for President in 2012?
How much longer will MSNBC allow this racist wackjob to peddle his phony, bigoted views on the airwaves?
That fact would lead one to conclude that the schools in the United States are performing quite well, and that problems result from poverty and lack of opportunity. These are statistics that defenders of the school system should be highlighting.
The problem is that what passes for a Democrat in the media won't - they will just point to the total score and declare the school system a failure. That leaves racists to make the observation. Hopefully, this data will be picked up and utilized, instead of buried.
Please, once that was done, all that supported him gave up the right to call anyone a racist.
From the Buchanon article:
This goes to the problem with right wing "science" and "facts". We often accuse right wing media, authors, and politicians of starting with a desired narrative, then lying, omitting, and cherry picking facts to fit that narrative.
Here we see Buchanon has done exactly that. It's possible that the conclusion he reached is true, but since the Sub Saharan African students didn't take part at all, there is nothing but assumption here. Where the data fits his narrative, he quickly latches onto it, and where there is no data, he simply draws a conclusion.
If you look carefully at the article again, the only real conclusion you could draw is that America has some damn fine schools and teachers. True to conservative narrative however, instead of praising our nation's schools and teachers, he sees this as a frightening revelation that we're over-educating minority people. A truly bizarre and regrettable conclusion to reach.
Fact checking is easy to do.Fox viewers have polled as the most misinformed in multiple polls going back a couple years at least.
Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite muyst be shaking their heads in disgust at the state TV News.
I agree, Murrow and Cronkite would be shaking their heads at how far down the toilet journalism has gone.
"obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one exhibiting intolerance, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry)
In case there are actually more than a couple individuals that are interested in REAL discourse, here is the Sailer article for you to read and rebut on the facts.
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/101219_pisa.htm
peace.