New in PJ Media:
Well, now it’s all out in the open. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the left’s vicious hate and defamation machine that for years smeared patriotic groups by lumping them in with the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and National Socialists, has been definitively exposed. As PJ’s Catherine Salgado reported Wednesday, the Justice Department on April 21 “indicted the SPLC over charges of channeling over $3 million to people who are part of extremist groups and even white supremacist groups. These included payouts to an Aryan Nations affiliate, a felon American Front president, and multiple former KKK members.”
The startling news that the SPLC was a chief funder, if not the chief funder, of racist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist groups, leads to the inevitable question: why would an organization that is supposedly dedicated to fighting racism given even a single cent to racist groups? And the answer is as ugly as it is revealing of the true mission of the SPLC: the organization gained a great deal of money, as well as political power and influence, by claiming to fight racism. That required that there be some racism to fight. Since there wasn’t enough of the genuine article in America, the SPLC had to gin some up to keep the donations coming in and the meetings with congressmen and senators on schedule.
And so the SPLC became that which it professed to hate and combat, and a major funder of the groups it begged for donations from unsuspecting leftists in order to fight. While it wasn’t pulling off that particular scam, it added another: it massively expanded its “hate group” listings to include patriotic Americans who simply dissented from the left’s agenda. Opponents of unvetted mass migration, the left’s insane gender fantasies, and jihad violence and Sharia oppression suddenly found themselves lumped in with the KKK and the Aryan Nations. And the group that the establishment media touted as the world’s foremost expert on “hate groups” was doing the lumping.
It worked, too. The popular X account “Insurrection Barbie” noted Tuesday that the “SPLC’s hate map got hardwired into corporate America. Amazon’s AmazonSmile program used SPLC lists to exclude charities. PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Mastercard, Visa many used SPLC classifications to deplatform people and organizations. Bezos later admitted to Congress that Amazon’s reliance on SPLC was ‘an imperfect system’ and that he’d ‘like a better source.’”
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Bob Biermann says
Every company, bank, and payment processing company who used the SPLC list should be sued for relying on that list. SPLC should be sued by every organization who was debanked, lost PayPal, or any other financial damage because companies used that bogus list. News organizations should also pay damages, amd spend the next 5 years telling the truth about the SPLC and warn people to not bekieve them. Itvis time to shun all race pimps.
Mo says
You were the first person that came to mind. They must owe you millions!
James Lincoln says
Mo,
Nothing would make me happier than for Robert Spencer to sue the SPLC for megabucks!
Transmaster says
In addition to the blackmail operation the SPLC ran, I have wondered about the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). I recall the ADL’s resistance to recognizing the Armenian genocide, which didn’t happen until 2007. Before that, the ADL sucked up the Turkey.
Dave says
I remember when the SPLC was started. Many people, at the time, said it was a cover for the democratic…er, I mean…the socialist/communist party of the U.S. Turns out they were correct.