PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Fake News
NY Times Slapped With $5M Lawsuit For Citing Racist SPLC, Branding Immigration Hawk a ‘White Nationalist.’
On Thursday Peter Brimelow
filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against
The Fake News New York Times, after the Fake News newspaper maliciously attacked his character by branding him a "white nationalist" and citing the disreputable far-left Racist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to bolster the charge.
On January 15, 2019, the Fake News
Times branded Brimelow an "open white nationalist" in an article published online and in print. In opposition to its stated journalistic standards, the paper did not reach out to him for comment first. When his lawyer sent a letter demanding it retract the claim, the Fake News
Times made a "stealth edit," removing the word "open" from the online article and — again in violation of its own stated journalistic standards — not appending a correction to the article.
The online version of the words "white nationalist" link to an SPLC article accusing Brimelow of "hate" and "extremism."
According to
the lawsuit, Brimelow's legal team reached out to the Fake News
Times on February 15, 2019, September 27, 2019, and October 16, 2019, claiming that the "stealth edit" did not reverse the defamatory act. Brimelow also sent the Fake News
Times multiple "letters to the editor" rebutting the "white nationalist" accusation. The paper did not respond to these messages.
"The Defendant imputed to the Plaintiff race hatred and traits inconsistent with his profession," the lawsuit charges. "Plaintiff has been injured in his good name, fame, credit, profession, and reputation as a man, and in his various public and private positions, callings, and lines of endeavor, and has been held up to public ridicule before his acquaintances and the public, and to suffer the loss of prestige and standing in his community and elsewhere."
Brimelow estimated the defamation cost him $700,000, and demanded the court order the Fake News paper to fork over "an amount no less than Five Million Dollars, together with punitive damages, and the costs and disbursements of this action."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "white nationalist" as "one of a group of militant whites who espouse white supremacy and advocate enforced racial segregation." Brimelow may have repugnant views about race and intelligence and he may advocate for a kind of white identity politics, but according to Merriam-Webster, that does not make him a white nationalist.
The Racist SPLC branded Brimelow a "white nationalist" in an attempt to stifle debate on immigration and because it wished to vilify his views that race may be biologically connected to intelligence. Yet
The Fake News New York Times has itself "bravely pushed the boundaries of the taboos on race," the lawsuit states, citing articles published between July 2001 and March 2003 which covered scientific developments supposedly linking race to genetics.
Nicholas Wade wrote those articles, and the lawsuit recounts that the Racist SPLC attacked him "for writing about the science of race differences" in May 2014.
"Nevertheless, Defendant knows that it itself is not a purveyor of hate or white nationalism because it has published articles on the science of racial differences," Brimelow argues.
The lawsuit quoted a letter the VDARE editor sent to the paper two day after it published the article attacking him.
"Mr. Brimelow is not a ‘white nationalist’ and, specifically, does not refer to himself as such," the letter stated. "To the contrary, he has repeatedly said that he is a ‘civic nationalist.’ For example, in a February 23, 2018 interview with Slate’s Osita Nwanevu, Mr. Brimelow stated as follows: ‘Personally, I would regard myself as a civic nationalist.’"
“The fact that VDARE has published some critiques of America’s immigration policies from those who aim to defend the interests of whites does not mean that Mr. Brimelow is an ‘open white nationalist,’ any more than the New York Times’s decision to publish op-eds by avowed socialists makes it ‘openly socialist,'" his lawyer argued.