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For most of its length, Marissa Brostoff’s Washington Post op-ed on the alleged links between the pro-life movement and white nationalism is merely propagandistic. At the end it becomes a despicable smear of conservative author J. D. Vance (a friend who is now affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, as I am).The headline reads, “How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement.†The article doesn’t come close to making the case that white nationalists, in general, have done any such thing; at best it makes a case that some white nationalists have opposed abortion. That other white nationalists have supported it, and explicitly rejected the pro-life movement, is a fact Brostoff ignores. ...Brostoff concludes by suggesting that Vance agrees with white nationalists that whites are committing “race suicide†through abortion, allowing themselves to be “replaced†by nonwhite immigrants. Quote [A]s replacement discourse enters the conservative mainstream, talk of birthrates comes along with it. “Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,†J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling “Hillbilly Elegy,†told his audience at the National Conservatism Conference last month; earlier this year, he described himself as “appalled†by Democrats’ permissive attitudes toward abortion. Vance did not spell out exactly who was included in the word “our.†He didn’t need to.Vance “didn’t need to†say that he was talking about white people — and note the technique: Vance’s not saying something is evidence he meant it — because he had already explained he was talking about our “nation†and “society†as a whole. Brostoff didn’t need to quote any of those sentences, of course; to carry off her smear, she needed not to. ...
[A]s replacement discourse enters the conservative mainstream, talk of birthrates comes along with it. “Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,†J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling “Hillbilly Elegy,†told his audience at the National Conservatism Conference last month; earlier this year, he described himself as “appalled†by Democrats’ permissive attitudes toward abortion. Vance did not spell out exactly who was included in the word “our.†He didn’t need to.
Mark Steyn talked about this while subbing for Limbaugh today. Vance was not alluding to white people when he said, "our people," he meant Americans. Considering he's married to a woman of Indian descent, J.D. makes a lousy white supremacist!
