There was a white supremacist group on campus on Tuesday. I’m not going to do them the dignity of naming their organization, since that legitimizes them and gives them potential foot traffic on their websites, but if you see a poster with a triangle intersected three ways and a focus on Europe, that’s them.
My close friend saw them, grabbed a poster and gave it to a faculty member in the office of multicultural affairs, so administration is aware.
This is the same group that showed up last March and put posters up around campus. They go to many college campuses to recruit like-minded people: white supremacists.
This is a completely unacceptable group to have on campus. An organization that truly believes they are better, deserve better and are somehow in danger because they are white.
It’s truly terrifying that people believe and practice that. They practice a fundamental disrespect and hatred toward people because of their skin color or ethnic background. There are tons of people of color on campus, as well as Jewish students, and we have to stand together against anyone who thinks that is wrong. That multiculturalism is wrong.
Not only are they terrifying and malicious, they are fundamentally wrong about everything that they say. Race does not exist on a biological level, it’s a social construct. According to a Business Insider article, we share 99.9 percent of our DNA with our fellow humans and about 50 percent with bananas. The genetic differences between humans is miniscule.
This specific group considers themselves a “fraternal” group with a large network of people that can be found online or through local meet-ups. The members of this group have to be vetted according to their high standards.
These members could be your neighbors, your friends, your family or anyone you know. The people who marched in Charlottesville were normal people with normal jobs. Make it undeniably clear in your daily life that white supremacy is unacceptable and evil. Do not engage with people like Richard Spencer who questions if “Jews are people.” Engaging with them only spreads their message and in many cases they cannot be convinced otherwise. Cut Nazis and their sympathizers out of your life. Shut them down when they bring up white supremacy. This isn’t a free speech issue, they can say whatever they want. But I don’t want to hear it and I don’t want anyone to think I’m willing to hear it. This isn’t a partisan issue, either; anyone who believes non-white people should be treated differently or killed or anyone who feels threatened by the existence of non-white people is unquestionably racist and therefore bad, no matter which political party you identify with.
White supremacy doesn’t just exist in organizations made to scare and dominate people of color and Jewish people. The school-to-prison pipeline is an extension of white supremacy, just as an example. White supremacy exists in our systems that run everyday life, and it is everyone’s job, particularly white people’s, to end these systems and protect our friends of color from both passive and active white supremacy.
