Virginia Dare's unwanted legacy: A white nationalist-friendly website called Vdare

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/22/virginia-dares-unwanted-legacy-a-white-nationalist-friendly-website-called-vdare/?utm_term=.fe061bd5b87b&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1



President Trump’s economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, had a publisher over for dinner earlier this month who provides a platform for white nationalists, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Kudlow, who has known Peter Brimelow for decades, said he wasn’t aware that for nearly 20 years Brimelow has run a website, Vdare.com, that promotes white-identity politics. This follows the firing of a Trump speechwriter for appearing at a conference with Brimelow.

But just what is Vdare anyway? A teen challenge involving vaping? A virtual update of the D.A.R.E. program?

Vdare.com is an anti-immigration website named after Virginia Dare, the first English child born in what is now the United States. Nothing is known about her other than her name and date of her birth, but that hasn’t stopped white nationalists, and others, from speculating.

In July 1587, a group of English explorers arrived on the coast of what is now North Carolina to start a settlement. There had been other, unsuccessful European attempts to settle the land, but Governor John White still brought his pregnant daughter Eleanor Dare, and her husband, Ananias.

Within a month, Eleanor had given birth.

Be wary of any DUers posting anything from sites like Vdare, NatVan, Stormfront, etc. Virginia Dare and I were both American-born to parents who came here from overseas but that's where the similarities end for many racists who think they know who "real Americans" are and the rest of us must be "fake Americans".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. How ironic. Named after an Anchor Baby. Celebrates chain migration. . . . . nt

[Totally Tunsie]

2. As a kid, I loved her soda. LOL

[link:https://www.newbedfordguide.com/virginia-dare-soda/2012/12/03|

[Retrograde]

3. A recent book about the Roanoke colony talks about this

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler has a chapter on how Virginia Dare became the darling of White supremacists c. 1900, even though only 3 things are known about her: she was born, she was baptized, she disappeared along with the rest of the colonists. Most likely she died in infancy as did a lot of children back then, but that didn't stop mythologizers from concocting all sorts of stories in which she played the heroine. Poor kid: even if she did survive and lead a happy life she gets all this AltRight crap dumped on her.