White Supremacist Group Stickers Reportedly Found on Baylor University Campus
“I want Truett to be a safe place and to have that right outside of my school that I come to daily, especially as a Mexican American, just kind of felt scary”
There is something very familiar about all of this. Could it be the first campus race hoax of 2025?
The Baylor Lariat reports:
Campus plastered with stickers promoting white supremacist group
A graduate student was walking from Truett Seminary to Dutton Garage on Jan. 17 when she spotted a sticker on the back of a street sign. She had seen one last semester while gassing up her car at H-E-B. But this time, she looked closer.
The sticker depicted a Revolutionary War soldier holding a fasces, a bundle of wooden rods with the blade of an axe protruding from the side. Fasces are common fixtures on Roman statues, symbolizing imperial authority and power. But in the millennia since, they’ve come to be a hallmark of fascism, providing the root of the word and used by Benito Mussolini during his regime in Italy.
Next to the soldier stood a militia member holding a police shield, his face covered by a white gaiter. “For the nation, against the state,” it read. Below that, “Patriot Front.”
According to FBI records, Patriot Front is “a cluster of Texas-based neo-Nazis who created a new blend of traditional white supremacist ideology, alt-right sensibilities and activism, and militia style armed insurrection.”
It officially formed after the September 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens of others. Earlier that summer, the founder of Patriot Front, then a member of white supremacist group Vanguard America, ousted the leader of his group. After Vanguard America marched in the rally, the new leader of the group announced the formal creation of Patriot Front and began to siphon off membership until Vanguard America became practically defunct.
The student said she ripped off the sticker after realizing what it was promoting.
“I want Truett to be a safe place and to have that right outside of my school that I come to daily, especially as a Mexican American, just kind of felt scary,” she said. “But at the same time, it felt very empowering. They’re the one wearing the mask, and we’re not. We’re showing our faces, and we’re proud to be here. A lot of our students of color are [first-generation] … I am, and a lot of my friends were the first ones [in their family] to go to college, so we’re going to be here, and we’re not going to allow hateful speech on campus.”
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I’m not sure this was a hoax. Not quite “in your face” enough. Plus Patriot Front originated in Texas so it’s not that much of a stretch to imagine some citizens of Waco being sympathetic to their cause.
With that said, putting a sticker on a street sign may be vandalism, but it’s not a hate crime and advertising for an organization…even a “white supremacist” one…isn’t hate speech.
“But at the same time, it felt very empowering. They’re the one wearing the mask, and we’re not. We’re showing our faces, and we’re proud to be here.”
Yea, tell that to your antifa fellow travelers.
Besides, if they didn’t wear masks, we’d be able to run them all down and figure out exactly how many of those khaki clad marchers are actually feds.
Someone claiming that “for the nation, against the state” is somehow racist is just outing themselves as a statist and should be ignored.
It’s not the slogan that’s allegedly racist, it’s the group whose name appears on the sticker. That’s what this person apparently objects to, presumably because she’s actually heard of it and didn’t need to google it as most people would.
Assuming that the group actually is racist (which seems plausible to me but I’m not willing to accept as fact just because someone says so), seeing its sticker might be legitimately triggering to many people, but illegally putting it on public property doesn’t literally count as a crime motivated by hatred. It’s motivated by wanting to publicize the group, so it’s only hatred at one remove, and I doubt that’s enough to trigger a sentence enhancement if the vandal is caught.
“Patriot Front?”
Bwa ha ha!
Fasces are prominently displayed above the dais of the U.S. Senate, also on the reverse of the Roosevelt dime, minted from 1946 to present.
I think you mean the Mercury dime…
My money is on fraud…. We will probably learn soon enough.
Nah, it’s practically February. Far too late to claim “first”.
“In the millennia since”?! Is this writer really that dumb? Fascism wasn’t invented until after WW1, so how could the fasces have come to be a hallmark of it over the course of the previous 1900 years?
“Emma Weidmann is a senior English major from San Antonio, with minors in News-Editorial and French. She loves writing about new albums and listening to live music. After graduating, she hopes to work in journalism.”
“Concentrate and ask again”
I’m going to be the first to place cash money moola on hoax. How many times do we have to hear this nonsense?
See, normally I’d agree with this 100%.
But this time it’s complicated.
Signs point to the Patriot Front itself being a hoax.
If the actual Patriot Front put up these signs, then they would be both a hoax and yet not a hoax, because the actual Patriot Front actually put them up.
Yeah, I’m not sure Patriot Front is real either. They sure appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared just as fast didn’t they? I’m betting some college clown just got some stickers printed up and went around slapping them on things not knowing any better. Most likely someone from the soon to be dismantled DEI office or people angry at the TX Legislature for trying to stamp DEI out.
Great. Next we are going after the graffiti artists so that liberals don’t get triggered.
Anyone living in Houston should know that white supremacists are way way down on the list of people to be concerned about. I have yet to see any on the far too many police bodycams that I watch (for education purposes).
They’re in short supply everywhere these days. They should apply to be listed as a critically endangered species.