Pamela Geller’s Fans, Part 3: Youth for Western Civilization
Here’s another photo from Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s anti-Islam rally last weekend, showing one of their English Defense League allies standing with two representatives of “Youth for Western Civilization” — a thinly veiled white nationalist student group that often promotes alliances with Eurofascists such as the EDL.
Youth for Western Civilization has been classified as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center; here’s a post at their Hatewatch blog, with more information on the people behind YWC: ‘Right-Wing Youth’ Group Debuts At CPAC.
One of the group’s founders, Marcus Epstein, is a frequent contributor to the white nationalist hate website vdare.com. (Editor’s Note: In Sept. 2009, Hatewatch was informed that Epstein now claims he was not a founder of the group, even though he had said so earlier.)
“Diversity can be good in moderation — if what is being brought in is desirable,” Epstein wrote in one vdare.com essay. “Most Americans don’t 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.
“The point is that all Christians, and white Christians in particular, don’t owe any deference to the self-defined racial separatist customs of other people,” DeAnna posted to Spartan Spectator in July 2007.
DeAnna was supporting another Spartan Spectator blogger who attacked the African-American holiday Kwanzaa for being “Satanic,” because it’s “designed to lead black Americans from traditional Christian holidays like Christmas and replace it with paganism.”
