The Southern Poverty Law Center Makes Millions Trafficking Hate
The Center has gotten rich in part thanks to its "hate map," which smears many good people.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) just released a report claiming there are 1,225 hate and anti-government groups in America. These groups cause "fear and pain [in] Black, brown, and LGBTQ communities."
The SPLC lists such groups on its "hate map."
I once believed the Center. Well-meaning people still do. Apple once gave them $1 million.
But what donors don't know is that today, the SPLC smears good people, not just "haters."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up Muslim in Somalia, but now she criticizes radical Islam, and sometimes (maybe this is what really bothers the SPLC) fraternizes with American conservatives. The Center put Hirsi Ali on its list.
The Center also smears the Family Research Council. I sometimes disagree with the Council. But they don't belong on a "hate map."
"When they don't agree with you politically, they're going to list you as a 'hater,'" says council Executive Vice President Jerry Boykin in my new video.
"You are a hater!" I tell him. "You hate gays."
"No, I don't hate gay people!" he responds. "I know gay people, and I've worked with gay people." The Council merely opposed gay marriage, an opinion they shared with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
One man became so enraged by what the SPLC wrote, he went to the Council's headquarters to kill people. He shot a security guard. Fortunately, that wounded guard stopped him before he could shoot anyone else.
"He told the judge that he was there to kill as many of us as possible because we were a 'hate group,'" says Boykin.
The Center also smears the Ruth Institute, a Christian group that believes adoption agencies should first try to place children with straight couples.
I told Ruth Institute President Jennifer Morse that she must be "a hater."
"I like gay people!" she laughs. "I have no problem with gay people! That's not the issue…. There could be cases where the best person for a particular child would be their Uncle Harry and his boyfriend…. But we owe it to the children to give them the best we can, which generally is a married mother and father."
When the SPLC put the Institute on its hate map, its bank cut them off.
"You're an organization that promotes hate, violence…," wrote the bank. "Therefore we're not doing business with you."
The Ruth Institute and Family Research Council are still on the hate list.
"There's no appeal. I sure don't know how you get off," Morse complains.
I suspect the Center keeps its hate list long to bring in lots of money.
The Center pays some of its people more than $400,000 a year.
"More than my entire annual budget," Morse says. "So yeah, whatever they're doing—it pays."
It sure does. Harper's Magazine once reported that the Center was the richest civil rights group in America, one that spends most of its time and energy trying to raise more money.
They promised they'd stop fundraising once their endowment reached $55 million. But when they reached $55 million, they raised their goal to $100 million, saying $100 million would allow them to "cease costly fundraising."
But when they reached $100 million—they didn't cease. They collected $200 million. Then $400 million. Now they have $730 million.
Yet they still raise money.
"Much of which is in offshore accounts in the Caymans," says Boykin.
It's true. You can see it on their tax forms.
Today the SPLC even smears groups like Moms for Liberty and Moms for America, calling them anti-government extremists because they oppose sexually explicit content in schools, and seek school board seats to try to "stop…school districts [from] disregarding the opinions of parents."
Give me a break. The Center puts Moms for America on its "hate map," but not Antifa, the hate group that beats up people on the right.
Today the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group itself.
It's a left-wing, money-grabbing smear machine.
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His administration went from having some pepto a-bismol.
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Nothing stokes more hatred than government and politics. SPLC and the US government should be at the top of the list of those spreading hate.
Only because everything is political. If government wasn’t involved in every aspect of our lives, politics would be a lot more civil.
You know, I love to poke fun at the SPLC just as much as the next guy, but seriously, does anyone really pay attention to them any more? I mean, sure, back in the 90s they were featured as “experts” on NPR literally like every 15 minutes. But these days? I’m not sure of NPR even takes them seriously any more… and when you’ve lost NPR.
If they’re being used by banks to remove “hate groups” then you can be assured they are being used plenty it’s just nobody is publicizing where they get their hit lists from.
^This^
Someone obviously still takes them seriously.
Democrats cite them often. As mentioned banks. Used by the social media censorship agencies. I’ve seen the sea lion libertarians here cite them. And they gets 10 of millions in donations every year. So yes.
does anyone really pay attention to them any more?
Corporations that want to keep their ESG scores.
Someone’s still funding them.
Where’s that little fucker Soros (and Soros, Jr.)?
Dead or dying, I hope.
NPR switched its news feed from SPLC to the Nunavut Intellectual Poverty Law Center , because anything Southern might be Confederate.
All sound criticism. The SPLC should be shunned.
Except this part:
but not Antifa, the hate group that beats up people on the right
It’s okay for Antifa to hate fascists. They’re fucking fascists, after all.
It’s OK (or at least not my problem) for anyone to hate whoever they want. Beating them up is another matter.
If that’s true, is it okay to ballbat communists? I mean, they’re communists, after all.
I’m a gonna say yes.
Marxists have no right to exist. So go nuts.
They’re fucking fascists, after all.
Who are you fucking? Never mind, we already know.
You know who else should be shunned?
About Antifa:
The common argument is, Antifa is not a formal organisation, and therefore does not belong on a list of hateful organisations.
Like how fascism isn’t a hate group.
The main problem is they don’t have official ID cards. Ask Mike.
They’re just a clump of terrorist cells.
Abort! Abort!
Neither do fascists. Or the alt-right. But yet, we seem to always be able to sharply define who’s fascist and alt-right, and therefore should be condemnified.
Saw this on Youtube before it finally showed up on Reason. Why does Reason need to rely on Stossel sharing his work with them to address stuff like this?
Why does Reason need to rely on Stossel sharing his work with them to address stuff like this?
Because there’s more important things to report on. Like abortions, sex workers, food trucks, Mexicans, and ass sex.
Well, you can’t say Reason doesn’t have clear cut priorities.
Groups like SPLC and BLM are the main reason why as a society we’ll never stop blabbing about “MuH RaCiSmZ.” They make way too much money off of it to ever stop promoting it.
John, if your goal is to get donors to stop giving them money you probably should not have bothered. The people who give them millions of dollars don’t care that they’re a hate group themselves. The people who give them millions of dollars hate hate. They don’t see the irony of that at all. They hate the bad guys and love anyone who also hates the bad guys. If your bank refuses to do business with you because someone put you on their “hate list” you needed a different bank anyway. There is no constitutional right to do business with a particular bank. The only solution to stupidity is to make sure the system supports as much non-stupid competition as possible.
Tell that to Nigel Farage
No, the solution is to get rid of these Marxist democrats. Problem solved.
To think there’s was a time when the DailyKos talked of the SPLC offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands back in 2010. I’m surprised they didn’t pulled that article. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/11/26/923486/-
How many million dollar mansions do the executives of the SPLC own?
Maybe as many as some of the BLM founders. Btw, there’s was that old article from 2019 about one of the SPLC founders Morris Dees who’s been memory holed for being a womanizer.
https://www.takimag.com/article/memory-holing-morris-dees/
Among FRC’s many anti-LGBT statements devoid of facts are their linkages of gay people to pedophiles, their call for exporting gay people from the U.S., their position that there should be criminal penalties for homosexuality, and their thoroughly debunked claim that one can change their sexual orientation.
Yes, that’s *hate*.
What exactly do you mean when you say “hate”? I feel like the word gets thrown around too much in this context. In my mind hate is a powerful, passionate emotional state. It seems perfectly possible to hold the views you describe in a dispassionate way.
The Southern Poverty Law Center Makes Millions Trafficking Hate
So do the DNC and the RNC. Plus they get a whole lot of coercive power too.
Gotta give these race hustlers some cover, right Groomer Jeffy?
Both sides!!!!
Not only the SPLC but the ADL is just as bad. Anyone can be labeled anti-Semite for disliking bagels and lox. Or maybe they criticized Isrealhell for bombing the Palestinians ( the real Semites).
OK, if you don’t want to be called anti-Semitic, how about anti-Jewish, would that work?
Socialist Punk Lie Center.
Ah smell the hypocrisy! Reason foundation is funded by the Koch brothers. Of course SPLC is a target.
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How could you mention this and leave out the bag of Chic-fil-a sandwiches this looser had with him?
Did he have a fire extinguisher or wood chipper with him?
These folks hate anyone who disagrees with them, so of course they assume that their opponents share the same deranged attitude.
Obama and Biden’s Brownshirts, along with BLM and antifa.