If you haven’t noticed on campus, the Youth for Western Civilization is I suppose protesting T.I coming to campus because he is a danger to the Vanderbilt community because of his previous conviction for fire arms. The fact that there organization has flyers on our campus really confused me.

Below is the group’s mission statement

Youth for Western Civilization will educate, organize and train activists on campuses across the nation to create a culture that will promote the survival of Western Civilization and pride in Western heritage. This movement is focused on the support of Western history, identity, high culture, and pride and opposition to radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration, and socialism.

Our class is almost over and as other students I was contemplating what I learned in this class and how that has changed my perspective on issues. I can’t say that I have changed a lot except maybe made me a little more depressed about whether I will leave to see a world of complete equality (but that is not the point that I am trying to make).

My issue is that we are often fed the idea that racist individuals are a thing of the past and that the only individuals who are still racist are ignorant and backwoods people. However, I would consider Vanderbilt to be filled with intelligent individuals and the Youth for Western Civilization has followers that are students who sit beside us every day.

I wanted to know how do other individuals  feel about those who promote, support or tolerate hate groups?

Does anyone feel that Vanderbilt should have denied Youth for Western Civilization access to our campus?

Why wasn’t there a large campaign to condemn hate groups as there was for Juicy Campus???

If we can condemn Juicy Campus despite it being in the realm of free speech, why can’t we condemn this obvious hate group.

(I will make the bold statement that Youth for Western Civilization is a hate group. There is no doubt in my mind and I cannot be persuaded that it is anything other than that).