The VDARE effect

I just traced another recent spike in my blog traffic to VDARE.com.

Patrick Celburne writes:

Sean Gabb’s essay for us last night on the fruits of abolishing Britain’s 800 year old rule prohibiting Double Jeopardy – the extremely dubious Show Trial convictions this month over the 1993 death of a black youth – seemingly coincided with a very long piece on Gabb by a U.K. blog called Suboptimal Planet: Is Sean Gabb a racist?

Suboptimal Planet is a very young blog (started December 2009) and is probably written by a young blogger. The piece is a depressing demonstration of how crude emotionalism – hysteria in fact – has become considered intellectually valid and respectable where the discussion of racial matters is concerned.

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Maybe Suboptimal Planet will mature. But such trembling deference to conventional opinion to the exclusion of the consideration of facts is unpromising.

Crude emotionalism? Hysteria? Deference to conventional opinion?

Read the article, if you haven't already, and let me know what you think.

In any case, Dr. Gabb is perfectly capable of defending himself.