Youth for Western Civilization

So I was recently accepted to Vanderbilt University. I recently attended a multicultural accepted students recruitment weekend and absolutely fell in love with it. However, last week I encountered some startling news. Vanderbilt has recently approved a new student group, entitled Youth for Western Civilization. The group's motto is to preserve Western culture. In Clint's terms, it's a white pride group. Which, technically is not a bad idea. However, I believe this group has become an excuse for racism. According to one article, the group "sponsored a ‘Koran desecration contest,’ jokingly threatened to distribute small-pox infected blankets to Native American students, posted 'Gays spread AIDS' fliers, and called Latino students and faculty members ‘savages". Now that's not right.

Clint and I discussed this... in depth, and well basically in my opinion, white pride groups should be allowed. if there are Indian pride groups and black pride groups and all sorts of other pride groups, why can't there be a white pride group? The problem with this, is that, in all honesty white pride groups come off as racist because...well white people have historically been blamed for being racist (while all other racist people have somehow been overlooked) and the majority of them actually are racist. I also....I know I'm beginning to rant, but hey this stuff is interesting...started to think about the definition of white culture. We all know about black culture which isn't dependent on religion at all, and I for one know of a whole lot of Indian culture that isn't dependent on  religion. What is white culture? I'm sure it exists, but somehow I feel like it's never promoted in any way. Interesting question, in my opinion. Honestly, in conclusion, I feel like white culture is always demoted in the efforts to "equalize" other races/cultures/religions. Stuff like affirmative action in current times, or random lawsuits for supposed "racism" are all signs of reverse discrimination in my opinion.  The word racism is definitley taken advantage of nowadays. And yet it's hard to picture people protesting for "white rights...". hmmmmmmm....