To the Editor:

Soo Yang’s column “Youth for Western Civilization misses the point” states that I am a “white nationalist” and a founder of Youth for Western Civilization. Neither is true. In fact, it would be quite difficult for me to be a “white nationalist” as my mother is Asian.

As the group has repeatedly said, members of any race can and should promote the values of the Western Civilization. Similarly, contrary to Yang’s assertion “godlessness, socialism, reproductive rights and gay equality” are not part of “traditional European culture” simply because many whites who live in Europe promote them.

It is this fundamental misunderstanding that makes Yang see a contradiction between holding socially conservative attitudes while also exalting the culture of Europe. It may be clich?© for a conservative to quote Burke but his lamentation that “the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever” is particularly germane.

A godless, feminist and egalitarian Europe that loathes its history and the values that sustained its civilization for centuries as sexist, homophobic, and racist is simply unwilling to defend itself against a culture — such as Islam — that has a strong sense of its own identity and purpose.

Marcus Epstein
Executive Director
Team America PAC
The American Cause