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Aidan Maconachy "reviews" America Alone:
In addition to the use of terms such as "gook" and "yellow peril", Steyn makes laudatory reference to the "white women" of America who produce more white babies (1.85 or thereabouts) than Canadian or European women.
I'll give Mr Maconachy $10,000 if he can tell me the page of America Alone on which I use the word "gook". When he's through with that exercise, he might like to tell us which of his teachers in his evidently extensive "formal education" advised him that it's a good idea to "review" a book without having read it.
[UPDATE: Mr Maconachy apparently isn't interested in the 10 grand, and has now changed the wording of his post without acknowledging the amendment. That doesn't address its larger problem - that he has simply regurgitated Johann Hari's talking points without attempting any independent verification. For example:
In his most recent outing he makes laudatory reference to the "white women" of America who produce more babies (1.85 or thereabouts) than Canadian or European women. What has "white" got to do with anything? It doesn't even reliably denote a race. Does this imply that American women with non-caucasoid skin pigmentation produce offspring of a less desirable sort? Steyn walks into these self-made traps that betray where he is really coming from, and then attempts to slither his way out of them by way of disclaimers of the "I am not a racist" variety.
How does he know it's a "laudatory reference" when he hasn't read it? The only person "walking into self-made traps" here is the cocksure wannabe pundit confidently pontificating on the motivations, the argument and the vocabulary of a passage of writing he doesn't know, hasn't seen, hasn't bothered to read. Who's "spinning reality" here? Maconachy isn't doing a critical review of my book, he's doing an approving review of Hari's review. Big deal.]
[UPDATE UPDATE: More post-post editing from Mr Maconachy:
Although this post references "America Alone", it isn't a straight "review" of Steyn's book, so much as a look at some of the themes in his work that attract negative attention - most recently from CIC and Human Rights in Canada.
No, it's not. It's a regurgitation of the themes from Johann Hari's review in The New Statesman. Give it up, man. You're making yourself look ridiculous. If you're that desperate to write about me and my book, we'll send you a review copy. Usually, my publisher sends out the review copy before the review's been written, but in your case we'll make an exception.]
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