Radical Campus Group Forges Ties to Southern Hate Group
Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) has long cultivated relationships with white nationalist organizations. Now, the group appears to be forging ties with the League of the South (LOS).
Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), an ultraconservative student group, has long cultivated relationships with white nationalist organizations. Now, the group appears to be forging ties with the League of the South (LOS), a neo-Confederate hate group that advocates a second Southern secession and a society dominated by 鈥淓uropean Americans.鈥� The league believes that the 鈥済odly鈥� nation it forms should be run by 鈥淎nglo-Celtic鈥� (read white) elites who would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate non-white people. Its leader, Michael Hill, opposes racial intermarriage and has denounced egalitarianism as a 鈥淛acobin鈥� leftist doctrine that undermines healthy societies.
Matthew Heimbach, a member of the league鈥檚 Maryland division who attended the League鈥檚 recent annual conference in Abbeville, S.C., appears in a video uploaded to YouTube on July 29 with another, unnamed Maryland LOS member, who says the Maryland chapter of the LOS will be working with YWC. He also states that YWC has 鈥渟imilar principles as us and similar goals.鈥�
Heimbach is also a student at Towson University, where he leads YWC鈥檚 newest chapter, which after much controversy was officially recognized on Sept. 13. In the YouTube video, Heimbach announced that the club hopes to host guest speakers including Pastor John Weaver of the LOS, who instructs league members on how to use firearms, and Maryland LOS chaplain David Whitney, who says churches should help arm and train people in self-defense.
According to a post on YWC鈥檚 Facebook page, Towson鈥檚 YWC chapter will kick off with a 鈥減ro-Israel event with resources from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.鈥� Horowitz is a right-wing propagandist who, among other things, organized 鈥淚slamofascism Awareness Week,鈥� which brought prominent anti-Muslim activists to college campuses in 2007 and 2008.
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