Uncensored America (UA), a far-right campus organization with a history of bringing racist speakers to college campuses, hosted two events in the spring with a podcaster well known for his antisemitic, anti-Black and male supremacist views.
In April, podcaster Myron Gaines spoke at Penn State and the University of South Carolina. Gaines (real name Amrou Fudl) is co-host of Fresh & Fit, a popular male supremacist podcast and Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group. The hosts claim to “provide the truth to men on females, finances, and fitness” and have 1.57 million subscribers on YouTube. On the show, Gaines and co-host Walter Weekes repackage toxic masculinity as self-improvement while preaching men’s innate superiority and right to dominate women.
These appearances are indicative of the continued incursion of far-right figures onto college campuses to spread extremist views and continue an effort that began in earnest in the 2010s with “alt-right” figures.
Since the summer of 2023, Gaines has increasingly embraced antisemitism and, though he is a Black man, has positioned himself as a white nationalist ally. Gaines, his co-host and their guests regularly engage in Holocaust denial and distortion, defend or praise Hitler and promote antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes about Jewish power and greed. In one video, white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes and several other guests can be seen performing the Nazi salute at the Fresh & Fit set. Gaines has joked about teaching the salute to his dog. In a recent, now-deleted podcast episode, a guest blames Jewish people for the Holocaust and another threatened, “We got to kill the m‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑” as Gaines laughed and nodded along.
“We’re the biggest platform that’s talking about the JQ,” he boasted in a July 2023 livestream featuring Fuentes. The “JQ,” or Jewish Question, refers to a 19th century debate about how to treat the Jewish diaspora, particularly in Europe. Antisemitic movements have used the term to present Jewish people as a threat to society and a problem that needs to be solved. The “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was a euphemism used by Nazi Germany leaders that referred to the systematic mass murder of 6 million Jewish people.
While UA describes itself as a “nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting for freedom of speech,” its events are focused on platforming far-right speakers including Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. Its founder, Sean John Semanko, is linked to a white nationalist publisher and a violent insurrectionist through another student organization described by members as an “alt-right club.” The group’s events help to launder the reputations of extremist figures while denigrating Black, Brown, Jewish, LGBTQ+ and female-identifying students on their own campuses.
Bringing back bigotry
Gaines opened his speech at Penn State’s main campus by laughing about his controversial views: “We need to bring back bigotry and racism and everything else.” He then acknowledged, “I’m sure a lot of you have questions about my views on women and Jews.”
Throughout the question-and-answer portion of the event, Gaines promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and repeatedly denigrated “Zionists,” a term often used as a code word for Jewish people to disguise overt antisemitism. He alleged there were “Zionist fingerprints all over” the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He also claimed that Zionists are responsible for social media censorship. This is a familiar talking point for Gaines, who claims he was demonetized on X (formerly Twitter) in September 2024 for tweeting, “We don’t need more Jews controlling social media companies and censoring our speech.”
Gaines’ proud and open bigotry appeared to embolden the audience — who were presumably mostly students — to unleash their own hateful views publicly. At both events, attendees asked Gaines about the “JQ.” At Penn State, someone seemed to inquire about when mainstream audiences would recognize hidden Jewish influence in society, asking, “What is the timescale at mass that we will learn the answer to the JQ?” At the University of South Carolina, an attendee asked about the “JQ” and “Jewish subversion of politics.”
Gaines asserted that even conservative media is under Jewish control and the American government is occupied by outside forces. At Penn State, one attendee alleged Jewish people were degrading masculinity. Gaines agreed and further claimed that Jewish people are the “pioneers of pornography.”
Gaines did not reserve his bigotry solely for Jewish people. The title of his speech at the University of South Carolina shared the name of his 2023 book Why Women Deserve Less, and male supremacy was the dominant theme. Throughout his speech, Gaines argued women are inherently manipulative, biologically inferior, not punished enough by society and simply that “men and women are not equal.”
He argued women should not have the right to vote, claiming that they have no stake in politics because they don’t have to sign up for the Selective Service System. Despite this argument, he also told the audience that women should not serve in the military. He laughed at the epidemic of rape on college campuses — among undergraduate students, more than one-quarter of women and nearly 7% of men “experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation,” according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. He dismissed the idea of sexual violence being a common experience for women. Instead, he insisted those women fantasize about rape.
He also made several derogatory comments to Black women in the audience, including making fun of one woman whom he dismissed as “Shaniqua.” The name “Shaniqua” is frequently used by Gaines and others as a racist caricature of Black women who have low incomes.
In a heated exchange at the end of the event at the University of South Carolina, Gaines said, “We need to address Black culture” in a conversation about crime. One attendee, who previously expressed his admiration for white nationalist Fuentes, pushed back. He questioned whether crime was the result of Black culture as Gaines suggested, or “just a race thing.” Despite being a person of color himself, Gaines agreed and joked, “Around Blacks, never relax.”
The attendee became increasingly agitated while discussing the supposed threat that people of color pose to white people. He shouted, “Living around white people is not a human right. … This is our country that we built.”
Gaines agreed with this attendee, who spouted this racist screed at a university-sanctioned event in front of students, and may have been a student himself. Gaines criticized those in the audience who were upset by these statements and insisted that Black people have lower IQs.
Far-right targeting of college campuses
College campuses have historically been an important battleground for the far right. The white nationalist “alt-right,” which rose to prominence in the 2010s, frequently targeted public universities. These campuses’ policies on free speech and assembly allowed far-right activists to access campus spaces and a young and impressionable audience. The events were used to create a spectacle: Alt-right provocateurs exploited campus protests to generate publicity and further spread their ideas.
Gaines is not the only far-right extremist to land at a college campus in recent months. In March, another far-right student organization invited Jared Taylor, a prominent white supremacist, to Colorado Mesa University (CMU). Taylor is the founder of the white nationalist hate group American Renaissance. He is a proponent of the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory and racial segregation, which he reiterated at the campus event.
Taylor was invited by the Western Culture Club, a student organization run by Maxwell Applebaugh. Applebaugh is also associated with the school’s Uncensored America and Turning Point USA campus chapters. However, he told CMU’s student newspaper, The Criterion, that he formed the Western Culture Club “out of a necessity for this event because the old people weren’t pro free speech enough.”
While openly antisemitic figures like Gaines are welcomed onto college campuses, universities have succumbed to pressure from the right to frame all pro-Palestinian protests as inherently antisemitic and punish student demonstrators.
A coalition of 10 mainstream Jewish organizations led by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs warned in a joint statement: “It is both possible and necessary to fight antisemitism — on campus, in our communities, and across the country — without abandoning the democratic values that have allowed Jews, and so many other vulnerable minorities, to thrive.”
As campuses in the South and across the U.S. resume classes and activities, they will once again be facing pressure to tackle antisemitism and uphold policies that allow for learning and safety at the same time. While university administrators and student movements committed to justice and liberation must take the increased threat of antisemitism seriously, it must not be treated as the only threat to safety on campus —especially as the Trump administration is imprisoning students who are critical of Israel and standing for Palestinian justice. These actions entrench authoritarianism and make everyone on campus — including Jewish students — less safe.
Picture at top: Myron Gaines speaks at the University of South Carolina in Columbia on April 22, 2025. (Screenshot from YouTube)