COMPROMISED: SPLC Whistleblower’s History Makes Groundbreaking Defamation Case Even Stronger

Daily Signal ^ | 6/4/23 | Tyler O'Neil

[CFW]

In order to win a defamation lawsuit, the person suing must convince the court and ultimately the jury that the slanderer didn’t just publish something false, but that he did so even while suspecting that the attack was false.

Immigration enforcement activist D.A. King’s lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center made it to the discovery process while so many other lawsuits have failed precisely because King showed that the SPLC had reason to doubt the truth of its claim that his organization, the Dustin Inman Society, was an “anti-immigrant hate group.” In fact, the SPLC had explicitly stated that the society was not a “hate group” in 2011, but it reversed course in 2018, right after registering a lobbyist to oppose a bill the society supported.

As I wrote in my book “Making Hate Pay,” the SPLC routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. This smear inspired a terrorist attack in 2012, but when conservatives sue to defend their good names in court, they repeatedly fail, in part because they do not allege that the SPLC itself doubted the “hate group” smear.

King can claim that, and newly revealed evidence bolsters his claim even further.

[CFW]

I would love to see the SPLC lose this case and be taken down a peg or two (or three or four). The media quotes the SPLC as an authority on "hate" groups and the criteria the organization uses makes anyone who disagrees with the progressive mantra to be designated as a "hate group" organization.

[GOPJ]

As I wrote in my book “Making Hate Pay,” the SPLC routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. This smear inspired a terrorist attack in 2012, but when conservatives sue to defend their good names in court, they repeatedly fail, in part because they do not allege that the SPLC itself doubted the “hate group” smear.

We're starting to win against liberal weirdos...

[Mark17]

We're starting to win against liberal weirdos...

I hope so, but we got a long road ahead. 👍👍

[SunkenCiv]

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[vetvetdoug]

I would like to see this wigger hate group destroyed. They labeled our reenactment group and the SCV as hate groups. We had been volunteering at NPS Battlegrounds and demonstrating Civil War Cavalry and just out of the blue we found out that the SPLC had gone after Confederate reenactor groups and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They make money by labeling innocent groups and people “hate” groups whether they are “hate”groups or not and ignore the black very obvious “hate” groups such as the Black Panthers.

[NorthMountain]

The media quotes the SPLC as an authority on "hate" groups

The FBI uses that group as an authority on so-called "hate groups" and has done so for decades.

[wjcsux]

Later

[Altura Ct.]

The SPLC needs to be destroyed.

[GOPJ]

The longest journey starts with one step forward...

[Mark17]

Yes it does.