{"id":3179,"date":"2013-03-11T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:41:31","slug":"the-group-behind-cpac-has-a-white-nationalist-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/the-group-behind-cpac-has-a-white-nationalist-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Group Behind CPAC Has a White-Nationalist Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Sarah Palin will be headlining, but 20\u00a0percent of the panelists this year will be African American, according to CPAC bean counters. And the CPACers proudly point to the prominent role of Latinos and women on various panels. Yet the CPAC organizers have neglected one important task as they attempt to appeal to minorities: staying away from\u00a0white nationalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the past week, the American Conservative Union, which founded and is the primary organizer of\u00a0CPAC, has showcased on its website an article from its newsletter, theConservative Battleline<\/em>, headlined “Debating Liberal Tactics<\/a>” and written by Robert Weissberg. The ACU identifies Weissberg as a professor from Cornell and the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and the author of 11 books. What it doesn’t mention is that Weissberg has long been affiliated with a pseudo-think tank called the New Century Foundation. This foundation publishes a\u00a0magazine called\u00a0American Renaissance<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and hosts\u00a0conferences<\/a>\u00a0under the same name, promoting the theory of\u00a0“scientific racism<\/a>” and providing a forum in which\u00a0Klan members, neo-Nazis, and David Duke<\/a>\u00a0followers can mix it up with the intellectuals of the white-nationalist movement.\u00a0The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the foundation’s founder and\u00a0American Renaissance\u00a0<\/em>editor, Jared Taylor, as a<\/span>\u00a0“courtly” white supremacist<\/a>, who once wrote in\u00a0American Renaissance<\/em>, “Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization\u2014any kind of civilization\u2014disappears.”<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> The Group Behind CPAC Has a White-Nationalist Problem | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Sarah Palin will be headlining, but 20\u00a0percent of the panelists this year will be African American, according to CPAC bean counters. And the CPACers proudly point to the prominent role of Latinos and women on various panels. Yet the CPAC organizers have neglected one important task as they attempt to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1662,26,737,273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}