White Supremacist Jared Taylor Speaks to 700 Nationalists in France

Jared Taylor speaks to white nationalists in France

Jared Taylor, who heads American Renaissance, a Virginia-based online white supremacist journal, spoke to about 700 white nationalists in France on March 10, 2012, about preserving  French identity and combating third world immigration to that country. According to Taylor, the meeting was sponsored by the French nationalist group Nationality, Identity, Citizenship (NCI) to “oppose current proposals to let foreigners from non-European countries vote in local elections.” 

The conference included politicians, authors, and academics. The themes touched upon by speakers at the conference included many of the same issues that white supremacists and racists in the United States focus on today—the preservation of white, European identity in the face of a growing multicultural society. Some of the speakers at the conference in France also attacked Islam as a threat to French society.

Taylor told those gathered at the conference that their fight to preserve French identity was significant for people of white European descent all over the world. He warned his French counterparts to “not make the terrible mistakes that we have made in America.” Taylor added, “Avoid at all costs the cult of diversity.”

In addition to Taylor, Filip DeWinter, the head of the racist and xenophobic Belgian nationalist group Vlaams Belang, spoke about the fight against multiculturalism.  According to Taylor, DeWinter asserted that “multiculturalism attacks our resistance against assaults on our identity, our civilization, our culture, and our existence as a people.”

In 2007, DeWinter visited the United States and met with Pat Buchanan and other racists. In 2011, he spoke at a meeting in the United States hosted by American Renaissance.

Panelists at CPAC Attack Multiculturalism

The 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) featured a panel on multiculturalism on February 9, which was hosted by ProEnglish, an organization whose mission is to make English the official language of the United States. 

John Tanton, who has expressed racist views and is the architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement, founded ProEnglish and is still on the organization’s board. Robert Vandervoort, the head of ProEnglish, hosted the panel.

One of the main speakers on the panel was Peter Brimelow, who runs the racist Web site VDARE that features the works of white supremacists, anti-Semites and anti-immigrant activists. Brimelow asserted that multiculturalism and bilingualism were examples of “modern political diseases.” He mostly focused on Canada as an example of how bilingualism has destroyed a society but claimed that America could follow the same example if bilingualism was institutionalized in the United States. 

Peter Brimelow

Brimelow alleged that kids cannot get a job at MacDonald’s because they can’t speak Spanish – a trend he described as a “ferocious attack on living standards of the American working class…just as immigration policy in general is.” Later, in the Q&A section, Brimelow said that Democrats had given up on “the white working class,” and that this was “treason.”

One of Brimelow’s co-panelists was John Derbyshire, a National Review contributor who straddles the line between the mainstream and the extremist worlds. He has shared the stage with racist speakers at the H.L Mencken Club, a far-right organization. Derbyshire also agreed to speak at the 2010 white supremacist American Renaissance conference, which was later cancelled. At CPAC, Derbyshire warned that “racism will reemerge in a new and more virulent form” because the tension between what the white elite is supposed to think and what it actually thinks about race will reach a breaking point of “cognitive dissonance.”

A surprise guest at the panel was Congressman Steve King (R-IA), who has made a number of virulently anti-immigrant statements over the years. King is trying to pass a bill which will make English the official language of the United States.