Lawrence Auster

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Lawrence Auster
Born(1949-01-26)January 26, 1949
DiedMarch 29, 2013(2013-03-29) (aged 64)
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University
University of Colorado Boulder (BA)
OccupationEssayist
RelativesPaul Auster (cousin)
Websitewww.amnation.com/vfr/

Lawrence Auster (January 26, 1949 – March 29, 2013) was an American

racialist" who wrote on immigration and multiculturalism
.

Personal life

Auster grew up in New Jersey, and was a cousin of the novelist

University of Colorado at Boulder. He never married, and was not – as has been claimed – a lawyer.[2][3]

Born

Jewish, Auster converted to Christianity as an adult and became a member of the Episcopal Church, a church he said he preferred "in the historical rather than the present tense", because the Church's ordination of openly gay men means "it has ceased being a Christian church".[4] He died of pancreatic cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 29, 2013.[citation needed] Auster later converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed. [citation needed
]

Writings

Auster was the author of several works on

Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, Peter Brimelow refers to Path as "perhaps the most remarkable literary product of the Restrictionist underground, a work which I think will one day be seen as a political pamphlet to rank with Tom Paine's Common Sense."[7] Professor Gabriel Chin has called Auster "the unsung godfather of the restrictionist movement".[8]

Auster's work appeared in numerous publications, including

The Social Contract
.

Auster edited a daily blog, View from the Right (VFR).[9] He took over editorship from writer James Kalb. Auster published his final post on March 24, 2013.

Political views

Auster identified his political views as traditionalist conservative. He opposed what he described as the liberalism of modern Western civilization. His interests were primarily social policy, particularly the politics of gender, sex, religion, sexuality, culture, patriotism, and identity. Auster described himself as profoundly alienated from modern America, and he considered most institutions of American society, including both political parties, to be corrupted by liberal philosophy.[citation needed]

Auster wrote, "I have always called myself a

white race. It is the source of and is inseparable from everything we are, everything we have, and everything our civilization has achieved."[10] He did not self-identify as a white nationalist.[11] As a tactical matter, Auster accepted the conventional definition of racism as having "the connotation of the morally bad, of oppression and hatred."[12][non-primary source needed
]

The

Samuel T. Francis
, another frequent speaker for the conferences.

Auster was an occasional contributor to FrontPage Magazine until 2007 when the publication cut its ties with him over an article he wrote in which he complained that "each 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".[14] Responding to his exclusion from FrontPage Magazine, Auster claimed that editor David Horowitz had "behaved in the most outrageously politically correct manner I've ever seen in my life."[15]

References

  1. ^ "Paul Auster (The Definitive Website)". www.stuartpilkington.co.uk. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  2. ^ "Limiting the franchise: a proposal." Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. November 15, 2007.
  3. ^ "D'Souza blames Muslim hatred of America on ... Lawrence Auster." Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. September 18, 2008.
  4. ^ "The political religion of modernity." Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. August 1, 2003.
  5. ^ "The Path to National Suicide"
  6. ISBN 0-936247-12-6
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  7. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, by Peter Brimelow
  8. ^ pg 58, Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, by Kathleen R. Arnold
  9. ^ View from the Right
  10. ^ Lawrence Auster (March 5, 2009). "The cause of the white race will not go away". View from the Right. AMNation.com.
  11. ^ Lawrence Auster (December 15, 2007). "Am I a white nationalist?". View from the Right. AMNation.com.
  12. ^ "Defining racism." Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. June 4, 2006.
  13. ^ "John Tanton is the Mastermind Behind the Organized Anti-Immigration Movement". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. June 8, 2002. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  14. ^ David Mills (May 4, 2007). "David Horowitz Shuns a Race-Baiter". Huffington Post. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  15. ^ "Horowitz expels me from FrontPage Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine." Lawrence Auster. View from the Right. May 4, 2007.

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