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SPLC Implodes: President And Legal Director Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal
The Burning Platform ^ | 3-23-2019

Posted on 03/23/2019 10:09:29 AM PDT by blam

The Southern Poverty Law Center – the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” – is unraveling.

A week after co-founder Morris Dees was ousted over sexual misconduct claims – with two dozen employees signing a letter of concern over “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism,” the head of the SPLC, Richard Cohen, as well as the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned on Friday.

Cohen had been with the organization 33 years and was one of its most prominent figures.

At 5:03 p.m. Friday, Cohen sent a message to staff, with the subject line “Stepping Down,” announcing that he, too, would be leaving the organization that he and Dees had turned into a research and fundraising juggernaut.

“Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them,” Cohen wrote, while asking the staff to avoid jumping to conclusions before the board completes an internal review of the Montgomery, Ala., organization’s work culture. –LA Times

Earlier this week, the SPLC board of directors appointed Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Tina Tchen – who, in an unrelated matter, unsuccessfully tried to pull strings and have the Jussie Smollett case transferred from the Chicago PD to the FBI. Tchen is heading up the inquiry into the sexual misconduct claims.

Also out on Friday was Rhonda Brownstein – who had worked with the organization for nearly three decades, according to the Montgomery Advertiser‘s Melissa Brown.

Inside the SPLC “Scam”

As the Washington Examiner‘s Beckett Adams writes, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a “scam,” which has taken ” no care whatsoever for the reputational and personal harm it causes by lumping Christians...

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KEYWORDS: hategroup; itsthejews; liberals; metoo; morrisdees; radicalleft; rhondabrownstein; richardcohen; scam; splc
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To: Brilliant

I don’t think they’re going anywhere real soon.


21 posted on 03/23/2019 11:12:01 AM PDT by huckfillary
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To: all the best

Socialists Prefer Less Capitalism


22 posted on 03/23/2019 11:37:42 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam

Before we pop the cork, we should figure out who will get control of the half billion in the bank, and what they intend to do with it. It may well be that the REAL reason Moe and company got pushed out is that they were not radical enough.


23 posted on 03/23/2019 12:01:39 PM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks blam. Those who live in glass houses, etc, is proving sound advice once again.

24 posted on 03/23/2019 12:02:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (this tagline space is now available)
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To: blam

The SPLC has long been nothing more than a Leftist hate group/smear machine.

Morris Deas has been well known to be a twisted pervert for decades.


25 posted on 03/23/2019 12:08:17 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: blam
Besides the easily-convinced news media, which has published SPLC "research" verbatim for decades, the real danger to Americans is that law enforcement agencies have also bought into this scam as a reliable source.

Innocent citizens have been targeted as haters by way of SPLC propaganda for nothing more than attending church services.

Local cops, who get indoctrinated in the reliability of published reports by certain outside groups such as the ADL and SPLC, will do surveillance, ask questions of neighbors, do a background check.

This can do damage to a person's employment prospects, credit rating, and insurance costs if it leaks out; in too many cases the suspect is not even aware he or she is being investigated.

We can be confident the mainstream media will never examine this invasion of a person's privacy, as they will not investigate the (Soros funded?) Anti-Fa and BLM protesters on the left who get protection from police in cities like Portland and Atlanta.

This sexual misconduct excuse for resignations may be cover for more nefarious actions by SPLC. And it didn't all start with Donald Trump's election. It goes way back, before the OKC bombing in 1995.

26 posted on 03/23/2019 12:58:40 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: blam

The fish rots from the head down.

5.56mm


27 posted on 03/23/2019 1:01:06 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: blam

This is some of the best news ever. I hope they implode.
One of many reasons I left the news industry-— I knew SPLC wasn’t a credible news source 30 years ago, yet every reporter I knew had them on speed dial. Their smears were presented as the gospel truth of “experts”. Reporters & editors never even bothered to seek a rebuttal or opposing viewpoint.


28 posted on 03/23/2019 1:03:47 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: blam

maybe a special counselor should be appointed to do a deep deep investigation.


29 posted on 03/23/2019 1:40:27 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: blam

The truth detector for Fascistbook, Twister and such, a scam? Say it ain’t so.


30 posted on 03/23/2019 2:43:30 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: blam

Time for RICO.


31 posted on 03/23/2019 4:59:59 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (I survive on Caffeine & Hate & sometimes Whiskey.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Gorgeous building?

Far from it.


32 posted on 03/23/2019 5:01:41 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (I survive on Caffeine & Hate & sometimes Whiskey.)
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To: FLT-bird

“The SPLC has long been nothing more than a Leftist hate group/smear machine.

Morris Deas has been well known to be a twisted pervert for decades.”

Yep, and they hide behind their heavily armed private militia.


33 posted on 03/23/2019 5:05:40 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (I survive on Caffeine & Hate & sometimes Whiskey.)
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To: blam

SPLC has been an infected boil on America’s skin. May they get another kind of social justice.


34 posted on 03/23/2019 5:37:59 PM PDT by lurk
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To: All
the SPLC’s business model centers entirely around keeping its precious donors in constant fear using gimmicks such as “hate maps” and “hate lists.”

I am laughing so much at those donors.
35 posted on 03/23/2019 6:20:44 PM PDT by ssfromla
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To: blam

S upporting
P erverts &
L ibertine
C auses

The SPLC is a hate group and we are the object of its wrath.


36 posted on 03/23/2019 6:39:42 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Freepers always blame the building for the people inside. Most freepers would love to see the UN’s iconic building torn down.


37 posted on 03/24/2019 5:14:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: chris37

Nothing a good rope woouldn’t fix.

38 posted on 03/24/2019 5:22:45 AM PDT by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: miss marmelstein

They both need to be torn down.

Ugly inside and out.


39 posted on 03/25/2019 5:36:03 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (I survive on Caffeine & Hate & sometimes Whiskey.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

So stupid.


40 posted on 03/25/2019 7:37:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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