Dallas prep school disavows white nationalist alumnus Richard Spencer

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An all-boys Dallas prep school recently denounced one of its most infamous alumni, white nationalist Richard Spencer.

Spencer - who is slated to speak at Texas A&M University next month - sparked widespread outrage after invoking Hitler-inspired chants and prompting Nazi salutes at a Washington D.C., event last weekend.

In a statement released online Friday, St. Mark's School of Texas Headmaster David Dini called the former student's views "hateful, divisive, racist, and anti-Semitic."

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"This has been deeply troubling and terribly upsetting to our whole school community," he wrote of the unabashed white nationalist alumnus. "At St. Mark's, we reject racism and bigotry in all its forms and expressions. Our mission, values, and programs stand in direct opposition to these vulgar ideas."

Spencer, who heads up the controversial National Policy Institute and was recently banned from Twitter, garnered widespread media coverage for his support of Donald Trump and his chosen chief strategist, former Breitbart media mogul Steve Bannon.

Initially, Spencer's former high school declined to comment on its 1997 graduate, according to the Dallas Morning News.

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Then on Nov. 19, Spencer addressed a crowd of supporters, shouting, "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!" Onlookers captured on camera threw up Nazi salutes in response.

Spencer has long advocated for a separate "ethno-state" for whites and called immigration a "proxy-war - maybe a last stand - for White Americans," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The civil rights nonprofit described him as "a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old."

"America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity," he told the capital crowd last weekend. "It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us."

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In response, one day after Thanksgiving, Dini issued his scathing statement on the video, soundly disavowing Spencer's actions without mentioning him by name.

"We are proud that many of our graduates, parents, students, and other community members are expressing their outrage and disgust toward these ideas; while at the same time, they are demonstrating support for the school they know and love," the statement said.

Other St. Mark's alumni fired back at their former classmate with a crowdfunding campaign to help resettle refugees into the Dallas area.

"Spencer's views are un-American and a threat to civil society," the alumni wrote online. "We reject them and urge everyone to join us in condemning him and his agenda."

By Sunday morning, the campaign had netted more than $41,000 in donations.

Close to 10,000 Spencer foes signed an online petition denouncing the Dec. 6 event at Texas A&M, slated to take place in a building dedicated to the alumni who died in World War I and World War II. Spencer will define the "alt-right" in the speech, according to the event's organizer, former student Preston Wiginton.

Wednesday, State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, urged the university to cancel the event, which he worried could incite violence on campus. One day later, the World Jewish Congress, an international nonprofit, also mounted pressure on the College Station university to call it off.

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"This man is one of the worst hatemongers in America, and his white supremacist and other bigoted ideas are sickening. I urge the university to deny him access to any facilities on campus," WJC President Ronald Lauder said in a statement.

The university has maintained that it cannot cancel the event, as Wiginton scheduled the speech and reserved the event space as a private citizen.

"I don't think that's something we're able to do, no matter how reprehensible we find this individual's choice of words," said university spokeswoman Amy Smith, who also condemned the controversial speaker and said his views are "in direct conflict" with the university's values.