"Peter Brimelow, Defender of Christmas"
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 617, December 19, 2024. 261 words/ 1:46:56
Because of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ unconstitutional mugging of VDARE.com last year, I was unable to cover the War On Christmas, exposing which, according to Wikipedia as of 1/9/2025, is one of my few claims to fame. (Besides being a “white supremacist” of course).
So I’m grateful to Counter-Currents’ Editor Greg Johnson for inviting me to catch up in this interview. Listening to it, I’m shocked how rusty I am. Must speak more slowly, repress northern English accent—unreconstructed after 55 years here!
Note also Greg’s ringing endorsement of Substack and his encouraging me to get on it. I’ve taken his advice. And, appropriately, this is my first post.
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0:44 – Introducing Peter Brimelow
1:22 – VDare and the War on Christmas. Egregious stories contest at National Review. 20 years at VDare; mainstream coverage
4:55 – The War on Christmas and The Great Replacement
6:00 – Homosexuals join the War
7:00 – Diversity not the issue: non-European tourists love Christmas!
11:24 – Will Trump act to ban debanking and deplatforming?
14:48 – Legislation is needed
16:20 – Has it gotten better or worse with Trump’s election?
17:30 – Greg’s “Merry Christmas” tactic and cancel culture
18:56 – Creeping diversity in European advertising; cancel culture and its origins in communism
22:50 – Donations
30:56 – Taking our own side and ecumenical cosmopolitanism
34:54 – Questions and comments
36:00 – Randolph Bourne and Eric Kaufmann
44:00 – Starmer and Trudeau; leaderless protests are hard to suppress; volatile Canada?
48:41 – Economic migrants and the WEF
49:19 – Ireland and mass immigration
56:20 – Glorious years of postwar prosperity and the Cold War; why is NATO still a thing?
59:00 – NeoCons and George Gilder
1:09:00 – Tech nerd meritocracy versus nepotistic Indians
1:14:30 – VDare on X: link to all their Christmas coverage through the years; Christophobic elites in the US
1:16:00 – War on Easter? Easter as an open-source holiday. The arguments vary but the goal remains
1:20:00 – Could Peter and Greg have done a better job at managing Kamala’s campaign?
1:28:00 – Censorship and the new age of online politics
1:30:30 – Peter and Greg on Vance and Trump, Thiel, and more Vance
1:40:10 – Donations, final thoughts
1:43:00 – Where to follow Peter online? Virtues of the world of Substack
1:45:05 – Goodbyes