Posted on 11/24/2019 2:19:15 PM PST by karpov
One morning in 1972, the French author Jean Raspail was at his home on the Mediterranean coast when he had a vision of a million refugees clamoring to enter Europe.
Armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil, he wrote. To let them in would destroy us. To reject them would destroy them.
At the time Raspail was a respected writer best known for his travelogues. But the racist novel that resulted from that episode, The Camp of the Saints, would become his most famous, most controversial and, surprisingly, most influential work.
For some 30 years, Camp of the Saints has been one of the top two books in white supremacist circles, said Heidi Beirich, an expert on extremism at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center leaked emails earlier this month in which the Trump adviser Stephen Miller touted the book to Breitbart staffers as a work with strong parallels to recent waves of migration.
Published in 1973, the dystopian novel details how a flotilla of Indian migrants reach Frances southern coast to invade the country. Political elites fail to respond to the influx, and the continent is overrun. For nearly half a century, the book has stoked fears of immigration that have, to its supporters, seemed increasingly prescient as growing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe in recent years.
Raspail can boast himself about being a prophet, said Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs. People now buy The Camp of the Saints because they want to read the book written by the writer who saw what would happen before everybody else.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yes, you are missing something. Arab infestation was already a problem and politically correct hot potato. He chose Indians to avoid his content being written off as racist
When do the book burnings start...?
Well we can certainly trust what one of America’s best known hate groups (the SPLC) has to say about this book. /sarc
OK, gotcha.
The rancid newspaper throws around words like racist like everybody isnt already tired of that and cites the USAs well-known hate group as a source then scampers away like a little bunny rabbit.
If it had any courage, which it doesnt, it would reinstate its comments section.
That way it would know what America thinks about it.
A bunny rabbit thats chicken.
I read the book many years ago and when the invasion of Europe happened 3-4 years ago I knew exactly what was going to happen, and it has. I recommend everyone to read it. We say the same thing happening 2 years ago here in the U.S. They will outmumber us and and we can’t stop it.
The only way to see if the book is racist as versus bluntly honest/accurate, is to do statement versus data chart and see what shows up. Would need at least 10 statements by the author (or predictions) versus what is going on not only in France today (a stinking mess), by also in Italy, Greece, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Hungary, etc.
Empirical research is anathema to the Left, esp. the NY Times and Wash. Post. Why bother searching for the truth when you can make up your “own truth”.
Camp of the Saint was/is very prophetic. Nothing ‘racist’ about it.
Screw the NY Times.
Yadda, yadda. More sermonizing from All the Duranty That’s Fit to Print.
I figure they just caused a lot more folks to go out and buy Camp of Saints.
Streisand Effect.
LOL. Probably true.
A lot of doubting liberals probably just heard of COS for the first time, and will now read it.
#1 on the NYT best seller list. That would be deliciously ironic.
Such bias at the NYT. “Racist book”, indeed. How about a book about the ineptitude of governments to protect their people, the one universally accepted role of government.
"The Blacks have figured out that our party is courting Latinos -- including illegals -- and flamers, like my future running mate, Pete Buttgiggity. Expect us to try to spin and change the subject."
Partisan Media Shills update.
Two (!) polls find black approval of Trump at 34%...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/two__polls_find_black_approval_of_trump_at_34.html
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