Meet The Southern Poverty Law Center

[phill4paul]

Most of the people the SPLC calls racists are racists (from frothing at the mouth NAZIs to the relatively harmless Mexicuns r takin muh jerbs types). And, on the other side, most of the people supporting the SPLC are also racists (from Black Panther types to mindless liberal arts drones). My overarching point (...which needs to be made a lot these days), is that libertarians don't have a dog in this fight. The culture war (of which the back and forth about the SPLC is an example) is being fought between two equally monstrous groups that both hate our guts and we shouldn't be rooting for either.

Do you MIAC?

[r3volution 3.0]

Do you MIAC?

Do you PATRIOT Act?

No one (save libertarians, all of whom could fit in my backyard for a BBQ) actually cares about civil liberties, one way or the other.

It's all just fodder for the culture war.

[timosman]

Do you PATRIOT Act?

No one (save libertarians, all of whom could fit in my backyard for a BBQ) actually cares about civil liberties, one way or the other.

It's all just fodder for the culture war.

Did you take into account the fact not everybody is like you?

[r3volution 3.0]

Did you take into account the fact not everybody is like you?

Yes, timosman is right, we must have diversity and tolerance, and also tolerance and diversity....

[AuH20]

[AuH20]

Hasn't the SPLC targeted the Mises Institute as a hate group?

[AZJoe]

SPLC Apologizes, Settles Defamation Lawsuit for $3.375 million to Islamic Reformer It Labeled ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’

[Brian4Liberty]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a “highly profitable scam” that “never lived up to the values it espoused,” according to former SPLC staffer Bob Moser.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...art-internally

[Brian4Liberty]

Southern Poverty declares war on Trump, with Michelle Obama aide’s help

The Southern Poverty Law Center is fundraising for a wide-ranging war on President Trump, and has enlisted a top aide to former first lady Michelle Obama who played a key role in the dropping of felony charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
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Fair also revealed that SPLC, which has been rocked by scandal recently, has brought on Obama’s chief of staff to help in its efforts.

“We’ve just launched an initiative with Tina Tchen — a former chief of staff for Michelle Obama and one of the leading voices behind the Times UP Legal Defense Fund — to advise us on workplace culture issues. Everyone who works at the SPLC deserves a workplace that reflects our highest values, and we’re committed to making sure that it happens,” he wrote.

Tchen’s involvement in the shocking move to drop the charges against Smollett of making a false hate crime claim to police has been a key focus in the Chicago media, which has reported she contacted the prosecutor’s office with concerns about the probe.
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More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...ama-aides-help

[AZJoe]

[AZJoe]

If there is any justice, the firing of its founder should launch the collapse and liquidation of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Few private organizations can match the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to hypocrisy and malign influence … In a development shocking only to its leftist true believers, the founder and most prominent public face of the group, Morris Dees, was fired … Dees' termination is one of several steps taken by the organization … sexism … racism … possibly sexual harassment …

The Advertiser long has highlighted related issues:
A 1994 Montgomery Advertiser series provided a deep look into the organization controlled by the multimillionaire Dees, illustrating his near-singular control over the organization and its mammoth budget. … Dees' critics said he was more concerned with fundraising than litigating.

The series also alleged discriminatory treatment of black employees within the advocacy group … Staffers at the time “accused Morris Dees, the center’s driving force, of being a racist and black employees have ‘felt threatened and banded together.’” …

But these issues are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hypocrisy and outright evil perpetrated by the SPLC … identifying anyone whose agenda opposes theirs as racists. Along the way, it has milked donors and become incredibly rich (over half a billion dollars in assets, $121 million of it parked overseas). It has also sparked appalling hate crimes – including a mass assassination attempt on a completely nonviolent/non-racist think tank, the Family Research Council …

Of late, the victims of its reckless defamation have been fighting back, and the SPLC has had to pay up millions of its ill-gotten dollars to the few of the more than 60 lawsuits that have been tried or settled. For example … Southern Poverty Law Center's announcement that the organization had settled a defamation lawsuit for nearly $3.4 million …

"In a chilling FBI interrogation video, now-convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins -- the man who stormed the Family Research Council's (FRC) headquarters and shot an employee … admitted that he picked his targets from a map on the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) website." …

And then there is this, via Law & Crime:
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been hit with a big payout after losing in a defamation lawsuit to Quilliam International and Maajid Nawaz …

The IRS reportedly is investigating a complaint about its abuse of its tax-exempt status.

Despite all these scandals, the SPLC continues to enjoy the favor of the corporate and media establishments, with Google donating a quarter million and many big media outlets relying on its phony designations of hate groups.

So, maybe Dees was fired for sexual or racial infractions, but my strong suspicion is that control of the half billion dollars in assets is the real issue. …

[RestorationOfLiberty]

If there is any justice, the firing of its founder should launch the collapse and liquidation of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Few private organizations can match the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to hypocrisy and malign influence … In a development shocking only to its leftist true believers, the founder and most prominent public face of the group, Morris Dees, was fired … Dees' termination is one of several steps taken by the organization … sexism … racism … possibly sexual harassment …

The Advertiser long has highlighted related issues:
A 1994 Montgomery Advertiser series provided a deep look into the organization controlled by the multimillionaire Dees, illustrating his near-singular control over the organization and its mammoth budget. … Dees' critics said he was more concerned with fundraising than litigating.

The series also alleged discriminatory treatment of black employees within the advocacy group … Staffers at the time “accused Morris Dees, the center’s driving force, of being a racist and black employees have ‘felt threatened and banded together.’” …

But these issues are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hypocrisy and outright evil perpetrated by the SPLC … identifying anyone whose agenda opposes theirs as racists. Along the way, it has milked donors and become incredibly rich (over half a billion dollars in assets, $121 million of it parked overseas). It has also sparked appalling hate crimes – including a mass assassination attempt on a completely nonviolent/non-racist think tank, the Family Research Council …

Of late, the victims of its reckless defamation have been fighting back, and the SPLC has had to pay up millions of its ill-gotten dollars to the few of the more than 60 lawsuits that have been tried or settled. For example … Southern Poverty Law Center's announcement that the organization had settled a defamation lawsuit for nearly $3.4 million …

"In a chilling FBI interrogation video, now-convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins -- the man who stormed the Family Research Council's (FRC) headquarters and shot an employee … admitted that he picked his targets from a map on the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) website." …

And then there is this, via Law & Crime:
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been hit with a big payout after losing in a defamation lawsuit to Quilliam International and Maajid Nawaz …

The IRS reportedly is investigating a complaint about its abuse of its tax-exempt status.

Despite all these scandals, the SPLC continues to enjoy the favor of the corporate and media establishments, with Google donating a quarter million and many big media outlets relying on its phony designations of hate groups.

So, maybe Dees was fired for sexual or racial infractions, but my strong suspicion is that control of the half billion dollars in assets is the real issue. …

Better yet, let the victims of these commie con artists sue the iiving hell out of these frauds and let those rotting in prison because of them be pardoned...Then deport these scum bags to South Africa.....No pity, No mercy.

[Occam's Banana]

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