MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom is ‘white supremacist,’ according to Southern Poverty Law Center center
By Matthew Miller
Lansing State Journal
When the Southern Poverty Law Center releases its annual list of hate groups next month, the Michigan State University chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom will be on it.
The MSU group is “white supremacist,” “have a lot of anti-gay beliefs” and “a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment,” said Heidi Beirich, with the SPLC.
Last year, the MSU chapter of the conservative student organization drew national attention, much of it negative, for its plans to sponsor a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day” on campus.
However, Beirich, deputy director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, said it was several proposals put forward by the YAF’s MSU chapter, among them that MSU should defund minority student organizations and that there should be a white student council on MSU’s student government, that earned the group a place on the list.
It’s taking less and less to be designated a ‘hater’ by the Dees tribe. -ed