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 groupA 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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