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“Competent White Men Must Be in Charge”
State Department Prepares to Appoint Man Fired for Racism During Last Trump Administration
Imagine what it must have taken for a Trump official to be fired for making racist comments during the last Trump administration. Darren Beattie managed it. Beattie’s contract was terminated after he was found to have spoken at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference alongside anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow.
The H.L. Mencken Club calls itself an “organization for independent-minded intellectuals and academics of the Right.” It started in 2008 and was named after the American journalist who once described Jews as “plausibly…the most unpleasant race ever heard of” and an educated black person as being a “low-caste man” who will “remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.”
Previous speakers at the conference include alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer and writer John Derbyshire, who was fired from the National Review after he wrote an article for Taki’s Magazine in 2012 suggesting parents should warn their children about black people. The article included tips such as “If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it…
