Virginia Abernethy
Virginia Abernethy | |
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Born | Virginia Deane Abernethy 1934 (age 89–90) Havana, Cuba |
Nationality | American |
Education | Riverdale Country School Wellesley College Vanderbilt University Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Anthropologist, activist |
Employer | Vanderbilt University |
Political party | American Freedom Party |
Virginia Deane Abernethy (born 1934) is an American anthropologist, activist, and
Early life
Virginia Deane Abernethy was born in 1934 in Cuba to American parents.[5][6] She was raised in Argentina and New York City,[6] being educated at New York's Riverdale Country School.[6] She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from the Social Relations Department at Harvard University in 1970.[6][5]
Career and opinions
Abernethy was a post-doctoral researcher and faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the early 1970s.[7] She then worked in the Department of Psychiatry of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, within Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for 20 years, from 1975 to 1999.[8] She was appointed as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, promoted to Associate Professor in 1976 and Professor in 1980.[8][5] She retired in 1999, and still retains an office on campus as Professor Emerita.[5][6] She is an anthropology fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
An outspoken opponent of immigration, she has called for a complete moratorium on immigration into the United States.[5] She claims that immigrants devalue the workforce, deplete scarce resources, adversely impact carrying capacity, and that Third World immigration has led to a rise in dangerous diseases within the United States.[10] She has countered claims of racism against her by pointing to her friendship with Jesse Lee Peterson.[11]
In a letter to The Washington Times published on September 30, 2004, she rejected their reporting of her as a "self-described 'racial separatist'", preferring "ethnic separatist."[12] The Anti-Defamation League in 2012 described her as being a "white supremacist."[13]
On June 29, 2011, the American Third Position (now the American Freedom Party), a whites-only party, announced that she had joined their board of directors.[5] She was later nominated as their vice presidential nominee.[13][14][15] Abernethy ran in election for vice president of the United States in 2012 as the running mate of Merlin Miller, who ran for president, in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, gaining a total of 12,900 votes nationally.[5][16]
Fertility-opportunity hypothesis
Her research has focused on the issues of
She has opposed programs that would spur economic development in less developed countries on the grounds that they are self-defeating. For the December 1994 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, she wrote an article entitled "Optimism and Overpopulation" in which she argued that "efforts to alleviate poverty often spur population growth, as does leaving open the door to immigration. Subsidies, windfalls, and the prospect of economic opportunity remove the immediacy of needing to conserve. The mantras of democracy, redistribution, and economic development raise expectations and fertility rates, fostering population growth and thereby steepening a downward environmental and economic spiral."[17]
Positions held and publications
From 1989 to 1999, she served as the editor of the academic journal
Abernethy has written or edited several books, including: Population Politics: The Choices that Shape our Future (1993) and Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment (1979).
At a shared conference of the American Freedom Party and the Council of Conservative Citizens in June 2018 at the Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee, Abernethy was a speaker along with Kevin MacDonald, also a leading member of the AFP, and David Duke who was the principal speaker.[23]
In 2012, the Anti-Defamation League referred to Abernathy as an "unabashed white supremacist", and the Southern Poverty Law Center called her a "full-fledged professor of hate," adding her to a list of 30 new activists heading the radical right.[5] Abernethy denied that she was a "white supremacist," preferring to describe herself as an "ethnic separatist."
Protect Arizona Now
She was involved in
During the campaign, she replied to a journalist's question about her views by stating how she distinguished between being a separatist, rather than a supremacist: "Groups tend to self-segregate. I know that I'm not a supremacist. I know that ethnic groups are more comfortable with their own kind."[12][24]
References
- ^ "Virginia Abernethy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
- ^ "Ron Paul campaign denies white supremacist ties alleged by Anonymous". Yahoo! News. February 3, 2012. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
- The Charleston Gazette. Archived from the originalon January 5, 2013.
- ^ Khetani, Sanya (February 1, 2012). "Anonymous Has Revealed The British National Party's Links To An American White Supremacist Group". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Wadhwani, Anita (October 22, 2012). "Hate watch list includes retired Vanderbilt professor". USA Today. Archived from the original on April 24, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "About Virginia", Dr. Abernethy's home page, retrieved Oct 19, 2009.
- ISBN 978-1-4128-2353-1.
- ^ a b "Nine honored with Emeritus titles". Reporter (Vanderbilt University Medical Center). Nashville, Tennessee. May 14, 1999. Archived from the original on July 8, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ "Abernethy, Virginia D K". AAAS. August 1, 2016. Archived from the original on June 30, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ^ "TOQ-Virginia Deane Abernethy - TB and immigration-Vol 2 No 3". Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved January 22, 2008.
- ^ Blumenthal, Max (March 24, 2005). "The Minister of Minstrelsy". Archived from the original on July 14, 2022. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
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(help) - ^ a b c d e "Virginia Abernethy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on January 5, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Anti-Immigrant Group Circulates Blog From White Supremacist In Weekly Email". Anti-Defamation League. November 20, 2012. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^ "Dr. Virginia Abernethy joins American Third Position Board of Directors | American Third Position". Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
- ^ "Racist Prof Latest to Join Group That Seeks White Rule in America". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Virginia Abernethy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on May 10, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ^ a b Abernethy, Virginia (December 1994). "Optimism and Overpopulation". The Atlantic Monthly. Archived from the original on December 5, 2016. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ^ Blumenthal, Max (August 31, 2004). "White Noise". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^ "Virginia Abernethy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on January 5, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-89608-660-9. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.)
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- ^ Piggott, Stephen; Amend, Alex (May 23, 2017). "More Than An Occasional Crank: 2,012 Times the Center for Immigration Studies Circulated White Nationalist Content". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^ Kwong, Jessica (June 12, 2018). "Former KKK Leader David Duke to Hold White Nationalist Rally in Tennessee". Newsweek. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- ^ Wells, Byron (August 16, 2004). "Migrant foe tied to racism". East Valley Tribune. Arizona. Archived from the original on May 1, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Anthropologist proposes link between per capita energy use and fertility rate - Vanderbilt University news release (archived copy)