Youth for Western Civilization

{{bronze}}[[File:YWClogo.gif|thumb|165px|The logo for YWC, eerily resembling a ''[[fasces]]'' — the symbol of [[fascism]]. Probably just a coincidence.]]{{race}}
'''Youth for "Western" Civilization''' ('''YWC''') was a [[white supremacist]] youth movement founded in 2006<ref>[http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=712:kevin-deanna&catid=47:d&Itemid=3 Kevin DeAnna]</ref> that aims to form chapters on college campuses and organize students to 
[[Secure the border|give them smelly Mexicans the boot]]
 return [[America]] to that [[golden age]] before all those stinking [[Multiculturalism|multiculturalists]] decided to [[Conspiracy theory|infiltrate all levels of society]]. Its intentions are to "educate, organize and train activists on campuses across the nation to create a culture that will promote the survival of [[West]]ern civilization and [[Racial pride|pride]] in Western heritage."<ref name="about">http://www.westernyouth.org/About/index.htm</ref> (Because the [[Age of Enlightenment]] so promoted [[Irony meter|racial purity]]!)  

One of their heroes is the noted [[racist]] [[Tom Tancredo]],<ref>Who [http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/04/u-conn-ywc-joins-protest-against.html they describe] as a "moderate former Congressman"</ref> former [[Republican Party|Republican]] Congresscritter from [[Colorado]].

These racists made their debut at the CPAC on February 26, 2009.<ref name="CPACDebut">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/02/26/white-nationalist-linked-right-wing-youth-group-debuts-at-cpac/</ref><ref>http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/03/02-1</ref>  Since then, at least one chapter of their organization has been suspended from its campus (at Towson University) for advertising with the slogan "white pride."<ref>[http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/29/454990/youth-for-western-civilization-townson/"Campus Conservative Group Disbanded Over ‘White Pride’ Graffiti"], ''ThinkProgress''</ref>

==Ideology==
[[Image:CharlesMartel.gif|thumb|left|An image of Charles Martel from the YWC blog.  This Frankish Duke is most notable in these circles for his victory at the Battle of Tours, where he killed many Muslims and supposedly stopped the Umayyad advance into Europe.<ref group=note>Actually, the {{wpl|Battle of Tours}} is remarkably poorly documented, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pm7dv leaving it consequences open to interpretation.] However, the depiction of it as the crucial defeat of Islam is pretty much a tenet of faith among scholars like [[Victor Davis Hanson]] and can ultimately be traced to the influence of {{wpl|Edward Gibbon|Edward Gibbon's}} {{wpl|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'',}} drawing on Christian chroniclers writing a century after the battle.</ref> But the YWC doesn't want to [[Genocide|exterminate Muslims]].  (Coincidence, is all.)]]
The organization positions itself as a defender of values [[persecution complex|it believes are under attack]].  Claiming to stand for "[[Gish Gallop|Western history, identity, high culture, and pride and opposition to radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration, and socialism]],"<ref name="about"/> it can portray itself and its members as noble defenders, as opposed to the ''prima facie'' conclusion that they are simply advocates and recruiters for a particularly nasty brand of xenophobic [[conservatism]]. Similar groups often use this [[Bullshit|clever]] psychological tactic, such as the modern [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/id/195085/</ref>

YWC claims that university [[education]] in the [[United States]] has been thoroughly corrupted by claims that important [[historical]] discoveries and/or events occurred outside a select group of [[Europe]]an countries. Thus, they advocate for local groups to [[Denialism|petition their institutions to remove courses focusing on non-Western European history from the curriculum]].<ref group=note>Seriously. See their Facebook page.</ref>

==Blog==
While much of their discourse appears, at first sight, to be relatively benign, a close reading of the postings on their official blog ("The Hammer") indicates troubling views on [[race]]. Examples:

*Pointing out supposed examples of "left-wing racism" — an application of the [[tu quoque]] fallacy, some might say:
**Stating that a [[Labour Party|Labour]] city councilor in Birmingham, [[England]], is racist for telling a city-council hopeful that she was "too white and too Jewish" to run.<ref>http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/04/left-wing-tolerance-jews-whites-need.html</ref> (Because [[Ed Miliband#Background|who was leading the Labour Party at the time]]?)
**Calling [[Affirmative Action]] racist.<ref>[http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/04/affirmative-action-case-reaches-supreme.html "Racial Preference Case Reaches Supreme Court"]</ref>
*Promoting a talk by [[Larry Pratt]],<ref>http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/03/larry-pratt-at-american-university.html</ref> a man who has been identified as having spoken at [[neo-Nazi ]]gatherings (although why neo-Nazis would let a man with a [[Central America]]n wife near their meetings remains a mystery).
*Ranting against "uneducated, unskilled ILLEGAL immigrants" who "will vote Mexico-First."<ref>http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-to-push-for-amnesty.html</ref>
*Criticizing a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] politician for saying that the Dutch should take pride in the country's [[Muslim]] population.<ref>http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/03/islamization-source-of-national-pride.html</ref>
*They are also not very fond of global [[capitalism]], as they state that "Conservatives [[Psychological projection|need to stop being reactionary]]" and that [[Wal-Mart]] contributes to the "destruction of small businesses and cohesive communities that provide the impeteus [''sic''] to any [[No True Scotsman|true right wing movement]]."<ref>[http://youthforwesterncivilization.blogspot.com/2009/03/wal-mart-promotes-hispanic-separatism.html "Wal-Mart Promotes Hispanic Separatism"]</ref>  [[The Evil Jew|Sound familiar]]?

==Prominent members==
According to the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], the founding members of YWC have had ties to [[Christian]] [[white nationalist]] organizations. In 2005, co-founder Kevin DeAnna, the registered contact person for the group's domain name, proclaimed in a blog comment that "all Christians, and white Christians in particular, don't owe any deference to the self-defined racial separatist customs of other people."<ref>http://yafwatch.blogspot.com/2007/07/yafs-anti-african-american-ideology_26.html</ref> He also complained that [[Kwanzaa]] was "designed to lead black Americans from traditional Christian holidays like Christmas and replace [Christianity] with paganism." He broke another irony meter when, having apparently listened to too much [[heavy metal]] music, he converted to [[Asatru]].<ref name="CPACDebut"/>

In a third display of irony, the half-[[Jew]]ish, half-[[Korea]]n Marcus Epstein (who at one point claimed to be a group co-founder but now denies that he was<ref name="CPACDebut"/>) has written a series of anti-immigrant screeds on the white nationalist website [[VDARE]].com.<ref>http://www.vdare.com/epstein/index.htm</ref> Epstein is also the head of the [[Robert Taft]] Club (a conservative [[Washington, DC|Washington]] club and brainchild of [[Patrick Buchanan]], who must have forgotten that Robert Taft [[Irony|despised]] the [[Ku Klux Klan]]) and has a history of inviting some dubious characters to speak; for instance, in 2007, he hosted a talk by members of the [[Belgian]] political party Vlaams Belang to speak about their advocacy of a [[Islamophobia|blanket ban on Muslim immigration into Europe]].<ref>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/10/08/extremist-group-announces-speech-by-congressman/</ref> Also at Epstein's behest, Jared Taylor, proud advocate of purging the "mud races" [citation needed] and editor of the white supremacist journal [[American Renaissance]], was featured in a 2006 Taft Club debate on "Race and Conservatism."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20080124004346/http://www.amren.com/media/Race-Cons/Race-Cons.htm</ref>

In 2007, a drunken Epstein was apprehended by the Secret Service after hurling punches and racial epithets at a passing black woman:<ref name="indy">http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/146405/index.php</ref>

{{quotebox|On July 7, 2007, at approximately 7:15 p.m. at Jefferson and M Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., defendant was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the complainant, Ms. [REDACTED], who is [[African-American]]. The defendant uttered, "[[nigger]]," as he delivered a karate chop to Ms. [REDACTED]'s head.}}

He was charged with a [[hate crime]] but cut a deal and was only convicted of simple assault. In addition to facing a possible six months in jail, the court ruled that Epstein must donate $1000 to the United Negro College Fund.<ref name="indy" />

==See also==
*[[Metapedia]]
*[[Neoreactionary movement]]
*[[Peter Thiel]] — billionaire who reportedly met with DeAnna<ref>Hannah Gais (March 18, 2021). [https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/03/18/white-nationalist-who-met-peter-thiel-admired-terroristic-literature "White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature"]. ''Hatewatch'' (''Southern Poverty Law Center'').</ref><ref>Blake Montgomery (September 11, 2020). [https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-thiel-hosted-a-white-nationalist-during-2016-trump-campaign-report "Peter Thiel Hosted a White Nationalist During 2016 Trump Campaign: Report"]. ''The Daily Beast''.</ref>

==External links==
*The twits' [https://twitter.com/westernyouth Twitter]

==Notes==
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==References==
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