Robert Weissberg And American Renaissance: The Inherent Racism Of The Right Wing
Posted by Phoenix Woman on March 4, 2013
Yet another entry in the “They say they’re not racists, but” file:
On the eve of the most widely anticipated conservative event of the year, the group responsible for organizing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 13) has chosen to feature the work of a controversial white nationalist professor on its website.
As of February 27, the American Conservative Union (ACU) website features an article by Dr. Robert Weissberg, a retired University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign political science professor with a second career as a white nationalist. Since the first CPAC conference in 1973, the American Conservative Union has been the principal sponsor of the gathering. ACU has a staff person, Vinh Nguyen, listed as a “CPAC producer.” And ACU’s executive director and chairman call the event to order and provide the initial welcoming remarks. Weissberg’s essay was found on the front page of the ACU’s site, just beneath a big banner advertising CPAC 13.
Weissberg’s short essay was entitled “Debating Liberal Tactics.” And the biography at the bottom notes that he’s taught at several universities and written 11 books. It leaves out some important details, however, including his repeated participation with a white nationalist outfit, American Renaissance, and his explicitly racist writings. Further, Robert Weissberg’s racist beliefs were well-known long before the ACU published his article.
The issue garnered national attention last year. After IREHR exposed Weissberg’s participation at the 2012 American Renaissance conference (and previous white nationalist events), National Review editor Rich Lowry publically gave him the boot from his magazine.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that American conservatives can’t quit backing bigotry. Their patron saint, Ayn Rand, advocates bigotry under the guise of rewarding “superior” indviduals (or “makers”) and punishing everyone else (or “takers”, “moochers”, and “useless eaters”) — and they tell themselves over and over again that they are the superior ones.
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onyxpnina said
Is there a link to the rest of the article? I’d never heard of this person. (Although, “scratch a conservative and you will find a bigot” is developing a patina of truth.)
Charles II said
Onyxpnina, I believe the article comes from here
onyxpnina said
Ah. Thanks. The rest is interesting; is it that Prof. Weissberg does not know history, or does he believe that his color would /o/v/e/r/w/r/i/t/e/ cancel his Jewishness to racists?
Phoenix Woman said
Thanks, Charles! It does indeed. I thought I’d put the link in properly — apparently not. Will fix.
Gappy said
I thought I recognized his name. Turns out he was fired from the National Review not much later than John Derbyshire was fired by the Review for advising white people to “avoid large concentrations of black people.” Found the article at Huffington Post 4/11/12.