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 year’s 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 group’s 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
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.”

Somewhat ironically, online membership records show that last
September, DeAnna joined a Fairfax County, Va., group of followers of
Asatru, a neo-pagan religion popular with neo-Nazis whose adherents
reject the divinity of Christ to worship Norse gods like Odin. “I
listen to a lot of heavy metal music,” DeAnna informed Hatewatch by
way of explanation.

DeAnna’s interest in Asatru may explain why there’s nothing in Youth
for Western Culture’s mission statement that identifies the group as
pro-Christian. “The purpose of Youth for Western Civilization is to
form a right-wing youth movement,” it reads. “Youth for Western
Civilization educates, organizes and trains activists on campuses
across the nation to create a subculture that promotes the survival of
Western Civilization and pride in Western heritage.”

Youth for Western Civilization appears to be a project of the
Leadership Institute, an Arlington, Va.-based right-wing activist
factory, whose training program graduates have included Christian
Coalition founder turned über lobbyist Ralph Reed, über lobbyist
turned imprisoned felon Jack Abramoff, and gay prostitute turned White
House correspondent Jeff Gannon.

Youth For Western Civilization Executive Director Nicole Gonzalez
Knowlton was recently the Leadership Institute’s Campus Services
Coordinator. DeAnna is currently the Deputy Field Director for its
Campus Leadership Program.

The Leadership Institute has a history of backing radical right
student groups. In 2006 college-aged Leadership Institute-trained
activists began reviving and radicalizing chapters of the Young
Americans for Freedom at universities across the country, including
MSU. DeAnna is the former leader of the Virginia State University
chapter of YAF.

Youth for Western Civilization didn’t wait for CPAC before throwing
its first event. Yesterday, the group sponsored a lecture by immigrant-
bashing former Congressman Tom Tancredo on the campus of American
University in Washington, D.C. Tancredo spoke on “Immigration Reform
and the Need for Assimilation.”

The same topic is addressed in a recent VDARE.com essay that’s
featured on the Youth for Western Civilization website. It lashes out
at political analyst Michael Barone for “…claim[ing], despite plenty
of evidence to the contrary, that the Great Wave of European (Italian,
Irish, Jewish, et. al.) immigration of 100 years ago was assimilated
without any real hiccups, and without changing the character of the
country.

“But anyone who has watched machine politics in action in cities like
B. Hussein Obama’s Chicago, or knows anything about the Mafia, or is
at all familiar with how largely Jewish intellectual elites have
utterly transformed American social and political discourse, knows
that is nonsense.”

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