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The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam
Reason ^ | January 16, 2018 | John Stossel & Maxim Lott

Posted on 01/16/2018 11:22:41 AM PST by nickcarraway

A "hate group" list loved by the media is bogus.

There are dangerous hate groups in America. So a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about them. They release an annual list of hate groups in America.

The media cover it, but John Stossel says they shouldn't. It's a scam.

It lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali—who grew up Muslim in Somalia and suffered female genital mutilation—as an "anti-Muslim extremist." Just because she now speaks out against radical Islam.

They also list the conservative Family Research Council as a "hate group."

That listing led a man to go to the Council's office to try to gun down their workers. The shooter later told law enforcement that he picked the group because he saw they were on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map and he wanted to fight bigots.

Stossel disagrees with the Family Research Council on many issues. But he says they don't deserve to be called haters. The group's Executive Vice President, Jerry Boykin, tells him: "I don't hate gay people, and I know gay people, and I have worked with gay people."

Another group that the Southern Poverty Law Center smears is the Ruth Institute. The group argues that gays shouldn't have the same rights to adopt. But does that make them haters? No, says founder Jennifer Morse: "I have no problem with gay people. That's not the issue."

Other reporters, such as Megyn McArdle at Bloomberg, have also pointed out that the group is an odd fit for a "hate" list.

There are many non-hateful groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate list. But Antifa, which clearly is a hate group, is not on the list.

The Southern Poverty Law Center wouldn't talk to Stossel about their list. Stossel says screaming "hate!" brings in money.

Morris Dees, the Center's founder, pays himself nearly half a million dollars a year. Although Dees once promised that when the Center's endowment reached $50 million, he'd stop fundraising, he didn't stop. Now the Center has $320 million dollars stashed away -- much of it in the Cayman Islands. It's all in their tax returns.

Stossel notes that they still con people into giving them even more money. Apple gave them $1 million last year.

He says the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lawcenter; southernpoverty; splc
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1 posted on 01/16/2018 11:22:41 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
SPLC is a hate group.
2 posted on 01/16/2018 11:25:03 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: nickcarraway

Please Google “Morris Dees Divorce Papers.”

In sworn testimony it is said that he molested his young stepdaughter and worse.


3 posted on 01/16/2018 11:25:13 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: WayneS

Exactly. Legal terrorists.


4 posted on 01/16/2018 11:28:52 AM PST by henkster
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To: nickcarraway

As a born and bred Southerner, just their name offends me.


5 posted on 01/16/2018 11:29:13 AM PST by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: nickcarraway

They do provide an important service though in that by reading their list you know who is worth supporting on our side.


6 posted on 01/16/2018 11:32:31 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: nickcarraway

SPLC has ALWAYS been a HATE GROUP! They HATE DECENT PEOPLE!


7 posted on 01/16/2018 11:33:46 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

How about this group? Are they on the "Hate List"?

8 posted on 01/16/2018 11:34:35 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: Bodleian_Girl

He had sex with his DAUGHTER-In-LAW...iirc....it’s in the divorce papers!


9 posted on 01/16/2018 11:34:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: WayneS

Speaking of SPLC, David Ruenzel was one of their writers, it appears.


Corrina Mehiel

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/white_social_justice_warrior_dies_at_hands_of_black_killer_.html

“Just a few days after she was photographed with Nancy Pelosi grinning in approval, friends found Mehiel tied up, stabbed, tortured, and ultimately dead at the hands of El Hadji Alpha Madiou Toure, a black man arrested driving her car and using her debit card.

He said he didn’t do it.”

“Her belief in black victimization came, she said, at an early age when her mother read to her the book that would change her life: It Takes a Village, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


David Ruenzel

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/black_crime_claims_life_of_apologist_for_black_crime.html

“Some liberals, most of which are ego-soaked, look for ways to support their self-perceived importance so they champion imaginary causes for that purpose,” Newburn said. “They are adult-children who feel free to construct fantasies about their greatness. Their narcissism in part functions to blind them to inconvenient realities. So to compensate, they idealize the targets of their misdirected and pathological ‘caring.’”


10 posted on 01/16/2018 11:37:03 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway
It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.

That's exactly what it is, and they play fast and loose with the facts.

I have a friend from forever ago who collects WW2 memorabilia. He got into trouble with the law and his house got raided. Not going to comment on that, but it had nothing to do with any kind of bigotry stuff. He's as close to apolitical as they come and accepts people as they come, on a one-at-a-time basis.

Some of the relics he had lying around were German. Those ended up on the news and now his name is tarred on the SPLC website as 'Neo Nazi'.

I've known him since the late Seventies. Nazi, my ass. He's more like a Libertarian from the 70s than anything else. He risked his life to save a Hispanic family trapped in a burning car when he came upon an accident scene and everybody that was already there was just standing there watching.

11 posted on 01/16/2018 11:39:32 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Ann Archy

Seems like the #metoo movement is only for some pigs!


12 posted on 01/16/2018 11:39:42 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: WayneS

SOPO is a shakedown group of far left agitators.


13 posted on 01/16/2018 11:41:00 AM PST by Luke21
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To: nickcarraway

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a Scam


14 posted on 01/16/2018 11:41:55 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SaveFerris
Interesting. Maybe stupid can be fixed. I mean, those two are no longer stupid.
15 posted on 01/16/2018 11:44:01 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Morris Dees was and is a useless piece of sh!t.


16 posted on 01/16/2018 11:44:51 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

pedophilia at the highest levels of the SPLC


17 posted on 01/16/2018 11:45:50 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Ann Archy

What is a daughter in law? Step daughter? Cousin? WTH?


18 posted on 01/16/2018 11:48:04 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Daughter-in-law is the person’s son’s wife.


19 posted on 01/16/2018 11:52:49 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: nickcarraway

Mo Dees has been working his sccam for decades now, using blackmail to extort “donations” from individuals and corporations using his pals in leftist media as weapons.


20 posted on 01/16/2018 11:53:14 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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