A recent leak of online chat logs from a white supremacist group reveals how local members are targeting students on San Diego campuses and trying to project a respectable image even as members privately espouse Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and racist views
People attending an Identity Evropa event in a San Diego State University lecture hall in November 2017, according to a photo posted at the time to the group's Twitter account.
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Identity Evropa a hate group, and the Anti-Defamation League categorizes it as a white supremacist organization.Current CEO Patrick Casey, who graduated from San Diego State University in 2016, has tried to rein in his group’s extremist expressions online, the chats show.
In a series of interview emails with the Union-Tribune last week, Casey said Identity Evropa was not a hate group. “My ultimate goal is subversion of my school’s TPUSA chapter into a front for IE,” he wrote, referring to Identity Evropa.Someone chatting under the name “TMatthews” in September said he was an officer of the College Republicans on his campus and believed many other Identity Evropa members also had joined.Ben Rajadurai, deputy executive director of the College Republican National Committee, said these extremists were not welcome.
“It’s more dangerous because it potentially has broader appeal,” Simi said. “There are folks who wouldn’t necessarily get involved with a group that’s more extreme-looking. You have to see it as part of a larger strategy to normalize their presence.” Casey told the San Diego State student newspaper, the Daily Aztec, last year that there were 50 to 100 members of Identity Evropa attending the university. But leaked online chats show 13 individual accounts from the San Diego area and just a handful of people posting pictures of their activities from September 2017 to March 2019.
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