SPLC

A far left site created to fear-monger for money. By their own standards, they would qualify as a hate-group. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far left site created to fear-monger for money. Their platform is used to attack anyone on the right, and by their own standards, they would qualify as a hate-group... if they applied their standards to themselves. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2017-05-16

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far left site created to fear-monger for money.

The SPLC exists to scare people for money, and it’s been quite lucrative

• Follow the money: if you pay people to scare others, they’ll find things to fear everywhere and exaggerate every problem (to exaggerate their reward).
• The SPLC has "raised an endowment of close to $100 million, by frightening elderly liberals that the heirs of Adolf Hitler are about to march down Main Street, lynching blacks and putting Jews into ovens”.
• There are websites, such as ([1]) dedicated to exposing the SPLC’s bad behavior.

Look, you don’t have to agree with right wing organizations views on many of these issues (I don’t), but that doesn’t mean you should be OK with labeling them hate-groups as SPLC does. They’ve successfully lowered the information and objectivity of folks that use them as a resource (especially media outlets), divided us more as a nation, and created false harassment of many legitimate organizations. But they made a lot of money in the process by scaring the gullible and uninformed (or worse: informed polemics).

Who is the SPLC?

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The SPLC manages a hate-list for the far left and their media. Giving them cover of a "non-partisan" group of all hard-core Democrats/Progressives. They were created by far lefties (Morris Dees and Joe Levin) to attack people who don’t follow their political agenda. Their writings were immediately favored by the Communist Party USA's newspaper (People's World), because it aligned with Social Marxism. They basically have two modes: (1) ignore or defend the left (defended violent marxists as “flawed freedom fighters”) (2) attack and vilify the right (they list many non-violent conservative organizations as hate-groups if they are Christian, anti-Gay-Marriage, anti-Abortion, anti-creepy guys in women’s showers/restrooms). They have virtually no objective standards for vetting, quality control: Soft right organizations like Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America, Coral Ridge Ministries, these are grouped in with the KKK, White Aryan Resistance, the White Patriot Party militia many things are debunked and stay on their list anyone that sincerely looks at the quality of their lists or questions them, is often added/attacked as well (by them or their proxies) According to their own standards, they should be listed as a hate group A domestic terrorist (Floyd Lee Corkins) even used their mislabelling of the FRC (Family Research Council) as justification to go in and shoot up the place. That's enough. Imagine a right-wing group that went around and: “monitored” anyone that didn’t pass their conservative litmus tests then labeled them as “hate groups” then tried to delegitimize them or get them fired from their jobs and some of their followers went and committed acts of violence in their name. then they exclude organizations like Black Lives Matters from being a hate group, despite far more acts of violence than happened in right wing organizations they list. Their "hate map" was a tool not to stop hate, but promote it: just against the other side.

Examples

Here's some examples of their behavior:

• 2016.11.01 Greenville, Mississippi black church fire - Greenville, Mississippi church was set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump”, by a Black Democrat (Andrew McClinton), trying to frame Trump Supporters for the Race Hate. The Media had fostered it, and in reponse outlets (Atlantic, NYT, CNN, SPLC) ran sensational headlines about how bad Trump and his white supremacist supporters were to do it.
• FRC Shooting - 🇺🇲 Washington, DC: Floyd Lee Corkins was a gay activist who was triggered by the SPLC list of hate groups. So he went to the one: the near-by Family Research Council. He took a handgun, two extra magazines of ammo, and sandwiches from Chick-fil-A to smear in the faces of his victims and opened fire at the local FRC office., Gay activist was triggered by the SPLC list of hate groups, took a handgun, two extra magazines of ammo, and sandwiches from Chick-fil-A to smear in the faces of his victims and opened fire at the local FRC office. Fortunately he only hit one security guard who disarmed and apprehended him.
• James T. Hodgkinson - In June 2017, James T. Hodgkinson was a Bernie Sanders supporter and left wing activist, who listened to all the hate rhetoric on the left about Trump and the evil Republicans and liked the SPLC page, decided to shoot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (and other Republicans) while they were practicing baseball.
• SPLC dropped by Twitter (2019) - Twitter has quietly dumped the Southern Poverty Law Center from its “Trust and Safety Council”, which would mean more if they had never been on it in the first place. Still, baby steps.
• SPLC/Build the wall - The SPLC hate map and the increase in the number of hate crimes after Tump? Whenever someone said, "build the wall", it was counted as a "hate" incident in their report. 467 times. A simple disagreement on immigration policy is the same as "hate".
• SPLC/Harry Potter is racist - SPLC's Tolerance.org site had Colleen O’Brien's article on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book was that it embraces a racist worldview. Their intersectional trauma was caused because "half-blood" in magic was obvious, "Half-bloods come from two different worlds, and the idea of these bifurcated worlds conjures images of racial segregation".
• SPLC/Lord of the Rings is racist - The SPLC's Tolerance.org website, did a review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, titled “A ‘Return’ of the White Patriarchy?”. Why? The heroes are manly men who are white, halos to denote goodness are eurocentric. To the far left, the standard for what's hate or not is the skin color of the actors. (Matrix was considered good because of more black actors).
• SPLC/Meet the Patriots (2010) - SPLC created a list entitled "Meet the 'antigovernment' Patriots" a dog whistle for the left to imagine militias and separatists. They added Chuck Baldwin, Orly Taitz, and Alex Jones and "Enablers", Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, and Judge Napolitano. Trying to convince their rubes that these guys are training on weekends to commit mayhem on the innocent left.
• SPLC/Mis-labels Oath Keepers as Anti-Government (2019) - The SPLC refers to Oath Keepers as, "one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S.". Oath Keepers has ≈35,000 present and former law enforcement, military veterans, and first responders, whose self-stated objective is a pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to, 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic'".

PragerU's
Response to SPLC labelling them as a hate agent

SPLC has a form on their website that allows anyone to reportanything as a hate crime, and it gets added to their list without any vetting whatsoever. Many of the items reported are later debunked, but there’s no system to remove false clams. The idea is to scare people for money.

• 2019.03 Dees was fired for failure to live up to the low standards of the organization -- waiting for details to come out on what that failure was
• In the wake of an August 2012 shooting at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, some columnists criticized the SPLC's listing of the Family Research Council as an anti-gay "hate group".
• Dana Milbank, of the Washington Post, wrote that the SPLC was "reckless in labeling as a “hate group” a policy shop that advocates for a full range of conservative Christian positions."
• Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council,” said, after the attack, “I believe [the gunman Floyd Corkins] was given a license to do that by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center who labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and stand for traditional orthodox Christianity.”
• Capital Research Center states that the SPLC "deliberately mischaracterizes conservatives and tea partiers as “extremists”.
• Steve Scalise shooter was inspired by the SPLC .
• SPLC gets sued for putting lots of non-hate groups on their list, the media ignores.
• They created a hatelist of Confederate places for their violent followers to vandalize .
• They miscategorize scholars like Christina Hoff Sommers (resident scholar at the American Enterprise) as an 'enabler of "male supremacy,"', because while she's a feminist, she debunks the left's lie about the so-called gender wage gap. Basically, being a scholar in your field, doing research, and disagreeing with far left feminists disinformation campaign, makes you a Woman-hater male-supremacist?
• They falsely label PragerU as a hate agency, for having the worlds most benign history lessons from various History Professors or specialists in their field. What's the hate? They don't regurgitate far-left revisionist versions of history or understanding, but a more conservative orientation of history.

Questionable practices

Why would a domestic 501(c) tax-exempt charitable organization need to push millions of dollars to offshore entities (Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda) as part of its business dealings? To quote the tax experts consulted, "It is unethical for any US-based charity to invest large sums of money overseas.... I know of no legitimate reason for any US-based nonprofit to put money in overseas, unregulated bank accounts." Somethings smells funky.

Or while we're asking questions, why would they pay lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees (a few making around ≈$400K/year), while spending little on legal services (despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy)? And Conservative Church or Charity that did this, would rightfully, have investigative journalists all over them, not to mention front page stories. The silence is both telling and deafening.

• http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/

Conclusion

I think there should be an organization that tracks hate groups, and provides the service that the SPLC claims to. But to do that, they'd need to:

1. be objective
2. have no vested interest (incentives) in scaring the public
3. and no political or ideological agendas

In other words, be the exact opposite of what SPLC is.

Tim Cook donated quite a bit of money to this hate group.

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🔗 More

Organizations Organizations that I felt the need to comment on (more often on the negs than the positives). But there's good/bad in all.

Bias Disproportionate weight for or against a person, place, idea or thing, usually ignoring evidence against.

TBD List all the articles that have work to be done on them.

Social Justice Warriors SJWs: When you are not able to refute the arguments, bully people into silence. Social Justice is injustice.

🔗 Links

• https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/12/the-hate-list/
• FBI severed all ties between the FBI and SPLC: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/26/fbi-dumps-southern-poverty-law-center/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_designated_by_the_Southern_Poverty_Law_Center_as_hate_groups
• http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/15/dale-wilcox-why-the-mainstream-media-must-stop-citing-anti-hate-crusader-southern-poverty-law-center/
• http://www.centerforimmigrationtruth.org/church-of-morris-dees
• Debunking SPLC "hate groups" myth: https://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/debunking-the-splc-hate-group-myth-1
• Bogus Hate Crime Study By Left Wing Hate Group Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/11/30/media-hype-bogus-hate-crime-study-left-wing-hate-group-southern
• SPLC - Mark Potok 12:19 (13:28 - Militia Fear Propaganda from The Southern Poverty Law Center) : https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-132-meet-the-southern-poverty-law-center/
• Summary: Obsessed with fundraising, the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center exaggerates the scope of racism in the United States to frighten donors into opening their wallets. SPLC is nominally a public interest law firm, but it spends little on actual litigation. Instead, it uses politically skewed definitions of racism to indoctrinate children while smearing conservatives who question racial preference programs. Twisting hate: https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-southern-poverty-law-center-a-twisted-definition-of-hate/
• http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343115/splc-and-slant-patrick-brennan
• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/feb/9/20010209-021048-2889r/
• * http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/03/academic-study-splc-hatewatch-biased/
• What it's like to be smeared by SPLC: http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-its-like-to-be-smeared-by-the-southern-poverty-law-center-1505171221
• Satire that's funny, because it's so close to truth: https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/09/southern-poverty-law-center-classifies-vfw-foreign-legion-as-hate-groups/
• Federalist: 5 reasons why SPLC is a hate-mongering scam
• https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center
• https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/06/our-leading-hate-group.php
• https://www.weeklystandard.com/charlotte-allen/trust-not-the-southern-poverty-law-center

Manufacturing Hate

• http://splcwatch.org/
• http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/03/fearmongering-at-the-splc
• http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/17/short-of-actually-scary-people-splc-targ
• https://pjmedia.com/blog/southern-poverty-law-centers-enemies-list-a-fantasy/
• https://capitalresearch.org/article/southern-poverty-law-center-wellspring-of-manufactured-hate/
• King of Fearmongers: http://www.weeklystandard.com/king-of-fearmongers/article/714573
• Everyone Who Disagrees with the SPLC Is Hitler: https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/splc-anti-muslim-extremists-list-scholars-reformist-muslims-hirsi-ali-daniel-pipes/
• http://www.johntanton.org/answering_my_critics/southern_poverty_law_center_splc_info.html
• Fake Islamaphobia: http://cqrcengage.com/act/app/document/19153671
• http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/03/fearmongering-at-the-splc
• https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-07/southern-poverty-law-center-gets-creative-to-label-hate-groups
• Preying on Charlottesville for money: http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/southern-poverty-law-center-money-machine-cashes-in-on-charlottesville/
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-insidious-influence-of-the-splc-1498085416
• https://www.weeklystandard.com/mark-hemingway/another-killer-cites-the-southern-poverty-law-center

SPLC

• Mark Potok (SPLC) exposing what they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZEZ5GyXfc
• They claim to be non-partisan -- Federal Election Commission records reveals that its board members have contributed more than $13,400 to Hillary's campaign
• Lies of Omission, showing how they pointed out violence was up after Trump:
  • https://www.splcenter.org/20161128/trump-effect-impact-2016-presidential-election-our-nations-schools
  • https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election
• They did that report by omitting over 20% (and 2,000 bias-related incidents) were against white students by minorities, and that the gross majority of their claims of hate crimes are not crimes and constitutional protected speech: http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/report-buried-trump-related-hate-crimes-against-white-kids/
• Example: saying "build the wall" was counted as 467 cases of "hate".
• Partick Brennan documents their bias: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343115/splc-and-slant-patrick-brennan
• Even NYT asks about their bias (but only when they target liberals unfairly, while ignoring how much worse they are to conservatives): https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-liberals-islam.html
• https://polination.wordpress.com/tag/southern-poverty-law-center/

Incidents

• Another Killer Cites the Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.weeklystandard.com/another-killer-cites-the-southern-poverty-law-center/article/848241
• Craig Stephen Hicks was an SPLC "liker": http://www.ibtimes.co.in/chapel-hill-shooter-craig-hicks-anti-theist-who-opposed-all-religions-623194
• Quilliam, an anti-Islamist think tank based in London, that spoke out against extreme Islam, and for moderate Muslims. For that, they got mislabeled by the SPLC as an anti-islamic group (the opposite of their charter or actions): the only good muslims are radical Muslims, to the SPLC. And the SPLC got slapped with a big payout for their dishonesty: http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/18/splc-pays-out-millions-to-group/

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