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FBI Director Kash Patel has just put an end to one of the left’s biggest grifts: the idea that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the left’s foremost mechanisms for destroying those whom it fears and hates the most, was an impartial arbiter of what constitutes unacceptable “hate” that must be opposed and shunned wherever it appears.
It is bad enough that the SPLC has spent many years and untold millions of dollars smearing and defaming patriots, lumping them in with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis on bogus “hate” lists that were designed to marginalize and silence every effective opponent of the left’s agenda under the guise of an objective evaluation of genuinely malignant individuals and groups.
What has been even worse is that the leftist establishment, which, although receding, is still the dominant force in American culture, accepted the SPLC’s lies and libels at face value and deplatformed and silenced patriots accordingly. Now, however, the FBI has taken a much-needed and long-overdue step, confirming that it no longer relies on the SPLC for guidance about “hate groups,” a guidance that the agency had no business accepting in the first place.
The Daily Signal reported Friday that Patel said, “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”
Patel was right. The SPLC, while targeting individuals and groups it smears as “hate groups” and their leaders, is the real hate group. In 2012, a man named Floyd Corkins stormed the offices of the Family Research Council (FRC), intending to kill the entire staff; Corkins later admitted that he had targeted the FRC because the SPLC had tarred it as a “hate group.” The FRC’s Jessica Prol Smith wrote in Aug. 2019, “The Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its ‘hate group’ list to promote the fiction that violent neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it has apologized to public figures it has smeared, and it recently paid out millions to settle a threatened defamation lawsuit.”
Mark Potok, who for years was one of the SPLC’s leading hit men, once described the organization’s enduring ethos: “We see this [as a] political struggle. We’re not trying to change anybody’s mind. We’re trying to wreck the groups. We’re trying to destroy them. Not to send them to prison unfairly or to take their free speech rights away, but as a political matter to destroy them.” Spoken like a true Marxist.
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Bexarkat says
Mark Potok is a true Marxist. The SPLC was created originally by a civil rights attorney in Alabama Morris Seligman Dees. Mr. Dees wrote in his book, “A Season for Justice” that he witnessed as a youth the struggles of black people in Alabama. People assume that Dees is Jewish but actually was named in honor of his father’s closest friend. I had the pleasure of providing security for Mr. Dees while he was on a speaking tour and spoke before a packed audience at a university in a small Texas town where I served as a police officer. Mr. Dees is unabashedly liberal but for the right reasons – when any American is denied basic human rights. Dees was involuntarily ousted from his role at the SPLC because of the Marxist machinations of Potok. Once upon a time, the SPLC as well the ACLU were great organizations doing humanity a greater good, but that has been snatched away by the infestation of Marxist ideology in both groups. Director Patel did the right thing in cutting ties with the group.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Bexarkat. And thank you for your service with the police!
Hoi Polloi says
I heard Dees speak a few times and got the impression that he was genuine. It seemed such a shame that his org’s original purpose was to become so fully perverted in subsequent years. Thanks for the info.
Beto Sanchez says
And what ethnicity do Potok and Dees have in common?
Beto Sanchez says
Wrong. Dees was ousted due to sex harassment allegations, along with his second in command (last name COHEN)
Taffy says
This will have zero effect on SPLC until their tax free status under IRC 501(c)(3) is revoked by the IRS.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, that needs to happen next
Also unmentioned above is that ADL too has been removed, like the ADL. There needs to be an end to the myth that either are civil rights movements. How much has the ADL done about jihadist attacks on Jews within the US?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also unmentioned above is that ADL too has been removed, like the
ADLSPLCgravenimage says
FBI Puts an End to One of the Left’s Biggest Grifts
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Good to hear! The SPLC may have been honest and decent at one time but that time has long past.
Kathleen Quinlan says
god bless!
gravenimage says
Thank you, Kathleen.
Lady of lake erie says
Thank you Kash
Jerome from Layton says
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
David says
The ADL, like almost all the large Jewish organizations, has been colonized and completely taken over by the Left. It is presently run by a former Obama apparatchnik. Another example is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which helped poor Jews immigrating to the U.S. These days it only calls itself HIAS (the former name was “too Jewish”) and gets large sums from the government for its work, which is over 90% for Muslims.