UT-Austin President: White Supremacist Posters Are Abhorrent
A white supremacist group’s fliers plastered the Texas State University buildings in January. The posters had sayings like “This land is our land. American Vanguard. For White America.”
The fliers are done in a highly stylized design reminiscent of something from 1930s-era German propaganda posters, asking people to imagine a Muslim-free America and calling for people to report “any and all illegal aliens.” The posters are part of a recruiting effort for the Texas branch of American Vanguard – an organization that claims “America is under attack” and that American identity is “dragged through the mud by the globalist establishment while millions of nonwhites flood our nation every year.”
The posters have also hit the University of Texas at Austin campus. One of the Vanguard’s posters was plastered across a statue of Martin Luther King Jr., reading “Carry the torch of your people” with a profile of four white men in heroic poses over a logo of an eagle carrying a fasces – a bundle of rods and an ax strapped together – a symbol of fascist Italy used by Benito Mussolini.
Many UT-Austin students and faculty are demanding action from the university’s president to address these fliers. President Greg Fenves says the school has worked to take down the posters and continues to support students and faculty to take action as well.
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