A higher education trade journal has parachuted into the UNC Chapel Hill/Tom Tancredo/tuition-for-illegal-immigrants/student protestors brouhaha with a story about Youth for Western Civilization, the student organization that brought the controversial congressman to campus last week.
If you recall, Tancredo's planned speaking engagement didn't go so well. He barely got started before student protesters essentially drove him from the room amid the sound of a shattered window pane.
Youth for Western Civilization is a small student group. It has less than 10 chapters nationally and on the Chapel Hill campus, it has about that many members. But it certainly got people's eye last week bringing Tancredo in.
As Riley Matheson, the head of the local chapter, put it in this Inside Higher Ed article: "We're still considered probably by most students to be sort of a rogue group right now."
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Sun, 08/23/2009 - 13:02 — tonygreene113Tidbits | link directory |currency investments
Conservative groups have
Sun, 08/23/2009 - 13:02 — tonygreeneConservative groups have always been under attack for supporting their views. This is just more of the same of that stuff.
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Nothing Here
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 18:21 — TheBigGuyNothing here suggests any racism from what I can tell. Sounds like a group of young people who advocate NO racial preference in anything, and the belief in our nation's laws. With what little I can ascertain from this description, I would have no problem with my college age children being a member of this group.
The Congress of the United
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 17:24 — manfredThe Congress of the United States has made the rules of who can legally immigrate to this country. Those who refer to folks who insist that the laws that Congress enacted be enforced as racists must think that the people who made those laws are racists too.
I do not see any disruption of Congress on account of the laws that its members have passed. Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House. If there was sufficient political will and courage among the Democrats, it is clear that the immigration laws could be re-written in short order. It is a fair bet that at least two or three Republican Senators would be happy to cut off debate and avoid a filibuster.
The last time I looked, Hon. David Price (D) was the U. S. House representative representing Chapel Hill. I suggest that those residents (legal and illegal) of Chapel Hill who disagree with the immigration laws, take their beef up with Mr. Price.
Wait...
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 16:48 — jhmd2000...their speaking engagement was the VICTIM of the disruptive vandalism, right? You casually dismiss the protest as not "going so well", and then call the group RACIST?
Is that blame-shifting from the same school of thought that coaches wife beaters to explain, "I wish my wife didn't make me hit her so hard? Our last meeting 'didn't go so well.'"
Okay, class: can anyone tell me why out of touch newspapers are losing circulation?
Struck me as funny at the time
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 16:23 — nelsoncl80The group is called Students for Western Civilization, but since when has Latin America (based on Roman law, speaks a Romantic European language, etc.) not been considered "Western?" Or, rather, WHY are they not considered to be "Western" enough? I'm sure it has nothing to do with pigmentation ... nothing at all.
Racist term is s-o-o-o last century
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 16:19 — Taxpayer2008There's nothing racist about a group advocating the curtailing of illegal immigration. To bring that into a topic is only race baiting.
Come on Eric, you know better.
Is the opposite Marxist?
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 15:09 — FlowerpowerGreat, let's throw some more oil on the fires of narrow-mindedness, of intolerance, of branding. The point is: all views are acceptable in America, and can and should be discussed civilly, examined, and evaluated--not trounced, denounced, disrupted, and branded. There is no law against racist views--wait, before you shout me down. There is no law against racist views, but there IS a law against illegal immigration; hence, the nomenclature ILLEGAL immigration.
Racist?
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 14:58 — acidqueenIf they are advocating the idea that one colour group is superior, or that immigration should only be allowed from countries that are predominantly of one colour group, then they are most definitely racist.
From what I have seen of them, they may be wrong-headed (IMO), but they're not racist or even roGUe.
Youth for Western Civilization
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 14:31 — SweetsieJust a group of conservative students who believe in Western style democracy and free market capitalism would be my take on them. From the perspective of most reporters and academics, anything to the right of Marxism is considered rouge and radically right wing.