White nationalists are now recruiting at college campuses
Zack Peterson arrived at his car on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus one evening last month to find a flier for the white nationalist group Identity Evropa tucked beneath a windshield wiper. His response: disappointment.
But the junior marketing major, who removed a half-dozen fliers from nearby cars and reported them to a campus residence adviser, said he wasn’t terribly surprised. Such things happen these days, he said.
Indeed, in the wake of a 2016 presidential election that drew mainstream attention to a set of previously fringe ideologies, white nationalist and supremacist groups have become an increasingly visible presence on college campuses, using fliers, posters, and e-mails in an effort to recruit new blood.
Since last September, more than 120 cases of white supremacist fliers, posters, or stickers have been reported on American college campuses, according to a recent study from the Anti-Defamation League. And here in Massachusetts, a worldwide hub of higher education, the practice has become particularly prevalent.
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