Thread by @SethCotlar

In 1968 a group called the National Youth Alliance circulated this document on college campuses. It complained about left wing indoctrination by professors and a progressive student culture that stifled the free speech of more conservative students.

The organization was committed to 4 central propositions. 1) defending the heritage of Western Civilization. 2) what its defenders today would call "race realism." 3) a rejection of liberalism. 4) a willingness to take action to fight against America's enemies.

Once one dug a bit deeper into who the NYA was, one would discover that they were neo-Nazis. The guy who wrote The Turner Diaries got his start in the NYA.

Note the language in this undated (but probably 1970-1) fundraiser from the NYA. "Help us combat the tyranny of the left!" Reading this as an innocent outsider, one would be hard-pressed to tell that this was a literal neo-Nazi outfit.

Only you, "the silent majority" can save "our civilization" from "the tyrannical left" and the Marxist professors who train them! Do it in the name of nationalism and common sense!

Not everyone who uses rhetoric like that is a neo-Nazi. But the fact that the neo-Nazis used rhetoric like that should, one would hope, give some pause to those who would use it today.

This was the group’s advisory board. Byers was an organizer for “Youth for Wallace.” The Marines currently has a scholarship named after del Valle, a lifelong fascist.

The professor on the list wrote a book defending anti-semitism from the anti-anti-semites of his day who he considered a dire threat to America and Western Civilization.

Oliver was the sort of professor who would get admiring letters from white nationalist grad students who felt like academia was an oppressive place where they couldn’t openly voice their complaints about white women pushing strollers of "n--r babies" through their neighborhood.

Here’s Oliver in a 1970 film explaining how young people who seek to aggressively “defend the west” will be called fascists or Nazis or anti-semites but that’s just because they’re the brave ones who resist liberal brainwashing.

In 1971 Oliver paid a friendly fundraising visit to Countess Guardabassi who lived in this humble abode about 4 miles north of Mar-a-Lago. He knew she’d be a receptive and remunerative host since she’d funded a bunch of far right, antisemitic groups for years.