Yep, another toxic hate group.
White Nationalist-Linked Right-Wing Youth Group Debuts At CPAC
Posted in Hate on Campus by David Holthouse on February 26, 2009
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A well-funded new organization whose stated purpose is to launch a right-wing youth movement will make a splashy debut tonight at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Washington, D.C. CPAC is billed as the largest annual gathering of conservative students, activists and policymakers.
According to CPAC materials, the group, Youth for Western Civilization, is one of the official co-sponsors, or major donors, of this years conference. The group has a booth in the CPAC exhibition hall, and its Inaugural Reception is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. EST in the Palladium Ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
In the past, CPAC organizers have shielded the reputation of their mainstream conservative enterprise by forbidding racist organizations like the Council of Conservative Citizens from participating. They may want to take a closer look at Youth for Western Civilization.
One of the groups founders, Marcus Epstein, is a frequent contributor to the white nationalist hate website VDARE.com.
Diversity can be good in moderation if what is being brought in is desirable, Epstein wrote in one VDARE.com essay. Most Americans dont mind a little ethnic food, some Asian math whizzes, or a few Mariachi dancers as long as these trends do not overwhelm the dominant culture.
Epstein is also the head of the Robert A. Taft Club, a Washington, D.C., group whose events regularly feature prominent academic racists like Jared Taylor, the editor of the overtly white supremacist journal American Renaissance.
Another Youth for Western Civilization founder, Kevin DeAnna, has posted several times in recent years to the Spartan Spectator, the website of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, or MSU-YAF.
In 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified MSU-YAF as a hate group after it organized a Catch an Illegal Alien Day game, sponsored a Koran desecration contest, jokingly threatened to distribute small-pox infected blankets to Native American students, posted Gays spread AIDS fliers, called Latino students and faculty members savages, and invited Nick Griffin, the chairman of the neofascist British National Party, to speak on the MSU campus.
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