Ethics

Meet Jason Van Dyke

By Ed Brayton

I've posted a time or two about the MSU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. YAF is a conservative group that's been around for decades with chapters on college campuses. One of my good friends was involved with the MSU YAF chapter back in the 80s and it was just a typical group of conservative students back then. These days, under the (recently resigned) leadership of a young man named Kyle Bristow, it has become a really repugnant bunch of bigoted punks.

My friend and Michigan Messenger colleague Todd Heywood has been following the antics of this group for quite some time. When he told me last fall that this particular chapter of YAF has become a hate group, I was frankly skeptical. But that was before I watched them bring in Nick Griffin, head of the openly racist British National Party, to speak and heaped praise on him. Griffin advocates the forcible expulsion of all non-whites and non-Europeans from England.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).