In response to the criticism, Faber decried what he saw as threats to the freedom of speech.

“If you have to live in a society where you cannot express your views and your views are immediately condemned without further analysis and analysis of the context in which [they’re written] — if you can’t live with that, then it is a sad state of where freedom of the press and freedom of expression have come,” he told MarketWatch.

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In the Oct. 3 edition of his investor newsletter, “The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report,” Faber wrote that had the United States been colonized by blacks, it “would look like Zimbabwe, which it might look like one day anyway, but at least America enjoyed 200 years in the economic and political sun under a white majority.”

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Faber, who is based in Asia, is a prominent investor known as “Dr. Doom” for his bearish views on markets and the economy. As Bloomberg notes, he is also known for “what he calls contrarian views. He told investors to bail out of U.S. stocks a week before the 1987 Black Monday crash.”

He served as the managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert’s Hong Kong office until the investment firm’s collapse in 1990. According to the biography on his website, he then set up his own business, offering services as an investment adviser and fund manager.

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Elaborating on his comments in the 15-page newsletter, Faber told MarketWatch that “progress would not have been the same” if the United States had been colonized by black people.

“Europeans brought science to America,” Faber said. “They brought technical skills. … I am not sure the Africans would have done that.”

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Faber added that “Africans will always use the excuse of [oppression] to explain where they are economically, saying that it is ‘all the fault of the colonists.’ ” He said he believes they would be “much better under a system of Western colonialism.”

In an email to The Washington Post, Faber insisted that he is not racist.

“God knows that I am not a racist,” he said. “This is what matters to me and not the opinion of some ill-informed politically correct people.”

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He also told Bloomberg: “If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist. For years, Japanese were condemned because they denied the Nanking massacre.”

Faber has already had to step down from Sprott Inc., a Toronto-based investment management firm, for his racially charged remarks. Bloomberg reported that he also left the boards of two mining companies, Novagold Resources Inc. and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., amid the backlash over his remarks.

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Faber told MarketWatch that he expects to be expelled from several other boards on which he currently serves as a result of his controversial comments.

Television networks are also distancing themselves from the investor, who appears frequently on CNBC and Bloomberg Television to discuss the markets.

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“Faber has not appeared on the network often, and will not be on in the future,” a Fox Business Network spokesman told The Post.

“We do not intend to book him in the future,” a CNBC spokesman told The Post.

In his wide-ranging newsletter, Faber discussed government regulations and universal basic income and argued against taking down certain historical monuments — likely a reference to the recent removal of Confederate statues in the United States.

“Today’s politically correct society prefers to waste its time with tearing down important historical monuments that are a reminder of our history, even if it was not always glorious,” he wrote.

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White supremacists and nationalists have held public rallies protesting the removal of Confederate statues, and conservatives have condemned U.S. universities for their free speech policies.

On Tuesday evening, white nationalist Richard Spencer offered his two cents on Faber’s comments.