Youth for Western Civilization
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Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) was[specify] a far right[1] student group registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States.[2] The group became a corporation in 2006 and began actively organizing in 2008.[3] Kevin DeAnna founded the organization. Its honorary chairman was former Colorado US Representative Tom Tancredo.[4][2]
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Abbreviation | YWC |
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Formation | 2008; 16 years ago (2008) |
Dissolved | 2012; 12 years ago (2012) |
Type | Youth activist group |
Legal status | Inactive[citation needed] |
Purpose | Anti-multiculturalism (Pro-West) |
Staff | Roughly 10 members at each chapter |
The group opposed what it viewed as "radical multiculturalism, socialism, and mass immigration" and a "poisonous and bigoted leftist campus climate". It also opposed affirmative action on college campuses. YWC was a more conservative and issue-specific alternative to groups such as the College Republicans (CRs),[5] although many of its leaders and members were also involved in the CRs; the YWC was represented at the 2009 National CR Convention.[6]
Critics considered the YWC to be white nationalists.[7] Founder DeAnna later became an alt-right activist.[8][1]
YWC was organized on at least seven university campuses. According to its website, the group hoped to inspire Western youth on the "basis of pride in their American and Western heritage", defeat "leftism on campus", and create a right-wing subculture as an alternative to what it calls a "poisonous and bigoted" campus climate.[3] It said its mission was "to organize, educate, and train activists dedicated to the revival of Western Civilization".[9]