A 'hate castle' or welcome neighbor? VDare divides a West Virginia town.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/03/vdare-berkeley-springs-castle-brimelows/
https://archive.ph/7O7ON

A ‘hate castle’ or welcome neighbor? VDare divides a West Virginia town.
In Berkeley Springs, the purchase of an iconic castle by VDare, which some consider a hate group, has led to angst and ugliness
By Ellie Silverman
January 4, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST



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Nearly three years ago, the historic 9,300-square-foot castle was purchased by the VDare Foundation, a group that gives a platform to white nationalists, and it now serves as its headquarters. Its founder, Peter Brimelow, 75, who runs VDare with his 38-year-old wife, Lydia, denies being a white nationalist or white supremacist.

But VDare regularly publishes writers who argue that America’s White majority and essential character are being threatened by people of color and who use racist pseudoscience to argue that White people are superior to other races. Its website has featured virulent anti-immigration articles for years, including warnings of “white genocide” from Jason Kessler, the organizer of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers VDare a hate group and has published critical articles about the organization’s presence in Berkeley Springs.

After a leaked draft in May indicated the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade and the right to an abortion, Peter Brimelow wrote on Gab: “Next stop Brown vs. Board!” He was referring to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in America.

That kind of rhetoric has appalled some Berkeley Springs residents, who refer to VDare’s headquarters as the “hate castle.”

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https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/peter-brimelow

Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow, a leading activist in the white nationalist and anti-immigration movements, is the president of the VDARE Foundation, a nonprofit that has long served as a bridge between more mainstream anti-immigrant groups and the white nationalist fringe.

Peter Brimelow’s career as an anti-immigrant proponent spans three decades. He’s been one of the leading voices in the movement since the mid-1990s. The former Forbes editor and National Review columnist founded VDARE in 1999, and the site soon became a haven for anti-immigrant and white nationalist commentators. Throughout the Trump era, Brimelow and VDARE have further cozied up to the white nationalist fringe.

Stephen Miller, the Trump administration’s former senior adviser for policy, invited Brimelow to speak at Duke University in 2007 while an undergraduate. As Hatewatch reported in 2019, Miller also forwarded a link to a Sailer-authored post from VDARE’s website to former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh in 2015 while he was an aide in then-Sen. Jeff Sessions’ office. (McHugh has since renounced her racist views and past affiliations.) Other emails from McHugh revealed that Julia Hahn, who worked with McHugh at Breitbart and subsequently took a job in the administration as special assistant to Trump, was connected to Brimelow as well, at one point casually referring to him by his first name.

Brimelow’s coziness with the institutions associated with the pro-Trump right were further detailed in a May 2022 report in The New York Times. As of 2018, Brimelow reportedly worked directly with Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire proprietor of Fox News’ parent company, Fox Corporation, according to the Times. The newspaper reported that Fox employees discovered Brimelow’s involvement with Murdoch after reviewing a formal organizational chart that it made public to through a company employee portal.

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