I read in the Lansing State Journal that MSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, is planning to organize night patrols on campus to deter rape and violent crime. I would normally applaud students for such initiative, but I don’t think YAF members are good candidates for the job.
YAF has constantly proven incapable of the respect and fair-mindedness needed to effectively police a diverse campus such as MSU. YAF’s communication director, Kyle Bristow, has said he hates diversity, and hardly a week goes by on YAF’s blog, the Spartan Spectator, when he isn’t proving it.
Usually he’s bashing leftists, whom he says should be deported and/or executed, and homosexuals, whom he calls “degenerates.” He constantly vilifies Muslims, whom he says are following a “heresy” he thinks has no place at MSU. He also has recently targeted Jews as “penny-pinching, big-nosed Zionists,” and a threat to “Western culture.”
If all that isn’t bad enough, the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization that opposes “mixture of the races,” recently declared the Spartan Spectator an excellent “pro-White” blog. MSU-YAF congratulated itself for that. One has to wonder, then, if all students are going to be equally protected by their patrols, regardless of their race.
YAF has the right to organize and participate on campus — same as any other official student organization.
But if I were a student I’d be wary of looking to them for extra safety at night. I might actually look for safety from them.
Jim Tremlett
Lansing resident
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