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Recruitment posters and stickers from Identity Evropa, a white supremacist organization, have now appeared in Somers after earlier being found in Katonah and Croton-on-Hudson.
The new flyers come months after similar flyers promoting the white supremacist group were found near schools in Westchester, a post office and a popular deli. Earlier this month, the group was back, posting stickers on signs in Katonah, pinning a flier on a “local community board” and putting a poster reading “Identity Evropa European Roots American Greatness” at the Katonah Metro-North station.
The stickers and fliers have since been removed.
In response to the latest rash of propaganda, State Sen. Pete Harkham issued a statement condemning Identity Evropa.
”White supremacist groups like Identity Evropa are a scourge on this nation. I condemn their racist and hate mongering posters that were recently found in Somers and Katonah,” he said. "The Hudson Valley welcomes and respects all races, religions and cultures. A shadowy, fringe hate group that posts xenophobic messages on light poles will never sway the open hearts and minds of New Yorkers."
The Southern Poverty Law Center says that "Identity Evropa is at the forefront of the racist 'alt-right’s' effort to recruit white, college-aged men and transform them into the fashionable new face of white nationalism. Rather than denigrating people of color, the campus-based organization focuses on raising white racial consciousness, building community-based on shared racial identity and intellectualizing white supremacist ideology.”
Identity Evropa identifies itself “an American Identitarian organization. As such, our main objective is to create a better world for people of European heritage – particularly in America – by peacefully effecting cultural change. Identity Evropa is thus an explicitly non-violent organization.
“As Identitarians, we believe that identity matters, inequality is a fact of life, and ethnic diversity, as demonstrated by substantial historical and sociological evidence, is an impediment to societal harmony. Unfortunately, the fetishization of diversity has resulted in a paradigm wherein ‘less White people’ – in academia, employment, and countries overall – is accepted as a moral imperative. We categorically reject this ‘progressive’ morality and instead demand that we, people of European heritage, retain demographic supermajorities in our homelands.”
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