Kyle Bristow and YAF's anti-Native American agenda

by: Philip.R.Moon

Sun Aug 26, 2007 at 22:16:56 PM EDT

In this first post Bristow accuses Native Americans of racism for attacks on a Viking settlement. This goes without consideration of other factors that may have contributed to a conflict. He also claims that without Christopher Columbus there would be no diversity.

Bristow again cites Christopher Columbus and offers his first denial that Native Americans are native to the American continents. After giving a long list of negative stereotypes he credits Christopher Columbus with ending the "backward culture"

Bristow, in response to an environmental debate on the Just Say NO to YAF wall, attacks poster Jeremy Frazier, claiming he would have society go back to living in mud huts. He attacks Native Americans, calling them "uneducated and uncivilized".

He then says if he had a blanket with smallpox on it he would give it to Jeremy. This today would be called bio-terrorism, but back in the early part of the nation was used to try to wipe out Native Americans. Kyle's post indicates support for the idea.

Kyle would bring the smallpox comment up later, instead advocating for Ebola because it is more painful

More recently Kyle has brought back his anti-Native American ideology. On the Facebook group "Young Americans for Freedom against Young Americans for Freedom" he posted that he was indeed advocating for the suppression of other cultures. He says "America should strive to assimilate people". The next post will show the "America" is not Native America, but European America.

Bristow shows his support for  Eurocentric American culture. He claims American culture was imported from Europe and that culture don't mix, they assimilate. He lists a number of European countries that are evidently their own countries and cultures, but doesn't explain how they "mixed" or assimilated in America. By his definition America should still have the one same culture from one European source that all other immigrants adapted to.  After that post he makes another accusing a poster of ignorance of history.

The second post his makes another attack on Native Americans. He refers to them as pseudo-indigenous and claims that only Western Civilization made America.

Kyle Bristow's reasons for being against Native Americans are not fully clear, but several things are evident. He believes they had an inferior culture and uses negative stereotypes to refer to them. He also seems to deny that they are native to the American continent, despite their presence on the American continent for thousands of years, much longer than Europeans. But this would contradict his nativist arguments in immigration debate.

By Bristow's logic in that comment there should be no people native to the American continent. But in Bristow's flawed ideology America was made by Europeans and has a European imported culture that is native to America and completely unchanged by immigration or different cultures. This is illogical, ignorant of history, but it fits he idea that only Western civilization has contributed to America.