Category: Hate on Campus

MSU-YAF Takes on the Jews, Temporarily

Posted in Anti-Semitic, Hate on Campus by David Holthouse on April 28, 2008

For the most part, members of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom are equal opportunity haters, spewing bigotry in the direction of anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual and Christian with more or less equal zeal — except for the Jews. Although MSU-YAF dabbled in anti-Semitism last fall by hosting British National [...]

Denounced by Colleagues, Anti-Semitic Prof Threatens to Sue

Posted in Academic Racism, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda, Hate on Campus by Heidi Beirich on April 18, 2008

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald (right) is facing more condemnation from his colleagues for his anti-Semitic research. In the past month, both the Jewish Studies Program and the History Department have issued statements (here and here) specifically distancing themselves from MacDonald’s hateful work. The Anthropology Department also has a statement [...]

Under Pressure, Neo-Nazi Landlord Puts Properties on Market

Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Commerce, Hate Groups, Hate on Campus, Neo-Nazi by Brentin Mock on April 3, 2008

Bill White has a duplex to sell you. Make that 17 duplexes. The neo-Nazi landlord has put the bulk of his Roanoke, Va., real estate holdings on the market, Hatewatch has learned. Asking price: a cool $2 million.
Although White has complained recently about subprime financing woes, it’s unclear exactly what’s motivating this sudden move, and [...]

White Supremacists Threaten Kent State Columnist

Posted in Anti-White, Black Separatist, Hate on Campus, White Supremacist, William Pierce by David Holthouse on April 3, 2008

It’s a rare piece of writing that engenders the wrath of black militants and white supremacists, but that’s just what a March 13 column by Kent State photojournalism major Beth Rankin did after it was published under the headline, “I Am Not A White Bitch.”
The column criticized the Kent State student organization Black United Students, [...]

National YAF Leadership Cracks Down On Racist Lecture Series

Posted in Academic Racism, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Anti-Semitic, Hate Groups, Hate on Campus by David Holthouse on March 3, 2008

Kyle Bristow, the former chairman of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans For Freedom, is no stranger to erratic behavior. But the MSU junior exhibited a particularly strange emotional schism last week, rhapsodizing about bald eagles one minute, and then branding the national leaders of YAF “cowards” the next.
Bristow’s wild mood swings began [...]

Campus Hatemonger Lays Down ‘Torch of Freedom’


Kyle Bristow — the pugnacious chair of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF), a student organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — announced Sunday that he’s resigning “so that the next generation of YAFers can replace me.”
Bristow (right) also confirmed that an MSU-YAF-sponsored lecture [...]

The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 1st Annual Smackdown Awards


It’s been a heck of a year in the world of hate. As usual, white supremacists and sundry others on the radical right have shot, bludgeoned and maimed their way into police blotters and newspapers across the land. They’ve cursed, defamed and insulted the usual laundry list of their enemies. But for Hatewatch aficionados, that’s [...]

Racist British Party Leader on American College Speaking Tour

Posted in Hate Groups, Hate on Campus, White Supremacist by Heidi Beirich on October 22, 2007

Nick Griffin (right), the head of the whites-only British National Party (BNP), will speak on three American college campuses in late October. That news comes courtesy of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a U.S. hate group that has described blacks as “a retrograde species of humanity.”
Griffin, whose white supremacist party angrily opposes immigration and especially [...]

NYT College Profile Omits Some Key Facts

Posted in Anti-Gay, Christian Reconstruction, Hate on Campus by Mark Potok on October 2, 2007

This Sunday, The New York Times Magazine ran a 3,000-plus-word piece on one Doug Wilson, a Moscow, Idaho, pastor described as trying to “reinvent conservative Protestant education” with his New Saint Andrews College. The story, a major feature in the magazine’s annual “college issue,” suggests that Saint Andrews is home to “a band of cultured [...]

MSU Hate Group Sponsors Bizarre Anti-Gay Lecture

Posted in Anti-Gay, Hate Groups, Hate on Campus by David Holthouse on September 28, 2007

The morning of Sept. 25, fliers posted across the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing blared “GAYS SPREAD AIDS.” They bore the insignia of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and invited students to attend a lecture that evening by anti-gay agitator Ryan Sorba entitled “The Born Gay Hoax.”
About 100 MSU students made it to [...]