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A report released Monday by the Anti-Defamation League says that Youth for Western Civilization -- a group that has formed several campus chapters -- "straddles the line between mainstream and extreme views and has close ties to white supremacists." The report says that the group's claimed love of Western civilization really appears to be a devotion to "white culture," with hostility to many minority groups. A statement from Youth for Western Civilization criticized the ADL report, saying that it "implicitly acknowledges that no one involved in YWC has said anything 'racist' when they accuse us of 'avoid[ing] using overtly bigoted rhetoric' in favor of 'euphemistic language' to make our points." The reply goes on to say that the "smears" in the report are "frivolous."