Staff Writer Caleb Downs contributed to this report.
Updated at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 28: Spencer, writing in his own Radix Journal, responded to St. Mark's statement on Sunday, saying his classmates were committing "civilizational suicide even harder than before" by raising money for refugees.
"If this episode doesn't express the end stage of WASP decline, I don't know what does," Spencer said.
Original Post: A Dallas boys' prep, St. Mark's School of Texas, has repudiated its most infamous graduate: Richard Spencer, a white nationalist and self-proclaimed founder of the alt-right movement.
In the wake of a Mother Jones story linking Spencer to the school, a spokesman told The Dallas Morning News last week that St. Mark's doesn't comment on its students—even a '97 graduate who wants to create a whites-only country.
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But that was before a Nov. 19 rally in Washington where Spencer shouted "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!" while Nazi salutes sprang from the crowd.
"This has been deeply troubling and terribly upsetting to our whole school community," headmaster David Dini wrote in a statement released Saturday. He did not name Spencer, but referenced the rally and his ideas. "We reject racism and bigotry in all its forms and expressions."
The statement praises other alumni for "expressing their outrage and disgust towards these [his] ideas." That may refer to Spencer's classmates, who are raising funds to settle refugees in Dallas. The campaign has raised nearly $40,000 so far, and some donors urged the school to publicly break with Spencer.
"I didn't have any doubt in my mind they would come out with a statement ... I was pretty certain they'd come out with something bold," said Montgomery Sutton, a 2005 Marksman who is fundraising for the refugee drive.
"It's very important that those who have any kind of association with people like Spencer stand up, speak out, disavow and call out that kind of horrifying rhetoric and bigotry," he said.
School policy not withstanding, Dini made a veiled reference to Spencer in a letter to alumni earlier this week. But today's statement—you can read it all below—makes perfectly clear how the headmaster feels about one particular graduate.