Lawrence Auster
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Lawrence Auster (b.1949--) is an American traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist.
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[edit] Personal Life
Auster is a member of the Episcopal Church.[1] He attended Columbia University. He currently resides in Manhattan.
[edit] Writings
He is the author of The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism and Huddled Clichés: Exposing the fraudulent arguments that have opened America's borders to the world as well as articles for FrontPage Magazine, NewsMax, the Council of Conservative Citizens' Citizens Informer, American Renaissance, The Social Contract Press, National Review, the Occidental Quarterly and WorldNetDaily. The Path to National Suicide is regarded, along with Peter Brimelow's, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, as a foundational text in the modern immigration restriction movement.
[edit] View From the Right
Auster hosts a daily blog, VFR (View from the Right), which includes commentary on current events, politics, society and culture from a traditionalist U.S. conservative, anti-Islamic, anti-liberal and anti-immigration viewpoint.
[edit] Political Views
Auster has been critical of both neoconservatives and paleoconservatives. His main target on the right are the neocons who he claims are able to identify the problem of radical Islam but refuse to do anything substantial about it such as reducing or eliminating Islamic immigration. Instead, according to Auster, neoconservatives advocate nation building abroad, and fail to recognize Islam itself as the cause of Islamic radicalism. He also criticizes paleoconservatives such as Patrick Buchanan for their criticism of Israel and what Auster sees as barely disguised anti-semitism. Auster also views racism as morally bad and links it with oppression and hatred.[2] He also is concerned about what he says is the racism of the black power movement as well as the far-left.
The Southern Poverty Law Center implied that Auster was a racist because he spoke at an American Renaissance conference.[3] He was one of 10 speakers to speak at the first conference in 1994, but has not spoken there since. He criticized Jared Taylor for his tolerating the former Klansman David Duke and Stormfront moderator Jamie Kelso who attended the conference and asked questions. Auster still is supportive of Taylor's personal views as well as those of Samuel Francis, another frequent speaker for the conferences. Robert Locke, a New York City friend of Auster and fellow columnist at FrontPageMag defended Auster against the charges of the SPLC.[4]
Despite his controversial status, Auster is often cited by "mainstream" advocates of immigration restriction and cultural conservatism (including people he has criticized like Pat Buchanan), to support their arguments. Buchanan has cited Auster's monograph, "The Path to National Suicide", as one of the sources for his own book, State of Emergency, The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.
On May 4, 2007 Auster was expelled from FrontPage Magazine, because of the controversy over an article he wrote in which he complained that "[e]ach story of black on white rape is reported in isolation, not presented as part of a larger pattern" and that "white women in this country are being targeted by black rapists."[5][6]
Of recent times, Auster has been both lauded and criticized by his writings on John Derbyshire's idea of Derbism. Named "Derbism Unveiled ", the conservative writer heavily critizied Derbism because of its atheist and post modernalist views. Auster has also recently criticized Robert Spencer for failing to openly oppose further Muslim immigration into Western countries.
[edit] Trivia
Lawrence is the younger cousin of Brooklyn novelist Paul Auster.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/001644.html[specify]
- ^ Defining racism
- ^ SPLCenter.org: The Puppeteer
- ^ Robert Locke. "Lies about the Immigration Reform Movement." FrontPageMagazine.com July 30, 2002.
- ^ FrontPage Magazine
- ^ Horowitz expels me from FrontPage
- ^ Paul Auster (The Definitive Website)
