A group of protesters pushed for a boycott of an Iowa City Farmers Market vendor, Saturday, saying the man spreads "White Nationalist rhetoric" online.

The about ten protestors stood in front of Iowa City carpenter Jeff Pierce's stand during the market, holding signs quoting some of the man's Facebook posts over the past few months. The group urged passersby to not buy from the vendor.

"He has every right to say what he wants," said April Rain, who was protesting Pierce's stand. "I think we have every right to let people know what he's saying so they can decide if that's the kind of person they want to buy furniture from."

Here's a few excerpts of what Pierce has been writing:

June 25, he wrote, "multiculturalism IS white genocide. it should be terrifying to everyone." He also posted, "america used to belong to two peoples. not in perfect harmony, at least it was ours."

Within the last week, Pierce posted "i'm not a 'white nationalist'. i believe america should remain majority white if it is to retain its essential character, some don't think that character is essential to americanness or they are outright hostile to whites."

Pierce also said, "any country's founding people has the right to retain its majority. maybe the duty."

Pierce told TV9 he stands by what he posted online.

"Yeah, yeah, I posted it," he said. "There's nothing I've posted on Facebook that's racist, that's bigoted, that's hateful. Nothing. If you allow western nations to become less than majority white, I believe they become rudderless."

Pierce said he doesn't bring those opinions to his stand at the Farmers Market.

"I don't talk about that here," said Pierce. "And I don't think it's unsafe to hold that point of view, at all."

Protestors pushed for the removal of Pierce's stand from the Market. Friday, Iowa City officials published a statement online saying that wouldn't be happening.

"The City has received multiple concerns about statements posted on a Farmers Market vendor’s personal social media page," read the statement. "While the City denounces such rhetoric from any source, and while it runs counter to our core values, we do not have the authority to take action to suspend or remove a vendor based on content of speech in such a forum."

The statement went on, saying Farmers Market rules don't extend to a vendor's conduct outside of the market.

"To extend such governance outside of the market premises would raise significant First Amendment issues," the statement read, "the essence of which is that government may not prohibit the expression of any idea, no matter how offensive or repulsive one may find such communication."