Posted on 05/25/2023 6:40:32 AM PDT by george76
Since its founding in 1971 as an organization with the laudable mission of fighting the KKK and other white supremacy groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has raised hundreds of millions of dollars with which it has leveled countless legal and public relations attacks against various “hate groups.”
Money aside, however, the SPLC is today a shell of its former self, beset with internal unrest and displaying a muddled focus. The Center no longer maintains the aura of invincibility that for decades made it essentially immune from serious legal challenges.
Much of the Center’s current troubles can be traced to 2019, when a major scandal centered on sexual harassment allegations forced the ouster of its co-founder and long-time leader, Morris Dees. Perhaps as a result of that major setback, the SPLC appears to have lost its sharp edge, and now appears to be targeting “hate” groups for no clear reason other than because it can.
The Dustin Inman Society, based in a northwest suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, has found itself in those SPLC crosshairs because it has, since its founding in 2005, vocally opposed illegal immigration.
The SPLC on the other hand, has long defended immigration, so it is no surprise that for years, the Center expressed its dislike for the Dustin Inman Society and its founder, D.A. King. That changed, however, in 2018 when the SPLC decided to list the small Dustin Inman Society as a “hate group,” and noted it as such on the Center’s website.
In response to being thus targeted by the SPLC, the Dustin Inman Society sued the Center for defamation. In a decision last month, the federal judge before whom the lawsuit is pending in Alabama, ruled that the SPLC would have to submit to discovery by the Society. The judge’s refusal to dismiss the complaint likely surprised the SPLC’s lawyers, because for the first time it opened the door for a group targeted by the Center to be able to conduct extensive discovery probing how and why it decides to attach the “hate group” label to an organization.
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This move will likely have far-reaching consequences for the formerly invulnerable SPLC.
The SPLC’s problems are not limited to the setback it suffered in the Dustin Inman Society lawsuit. One of its own lawyers, Thomas Webb Jurgens, was arrested earlier this Spring and charged with domestic terrorism as one of the suspected Antifa agitators involved in violent disturbances surrounding the construction of a new police training center in Atlanta (in January, another protestor was killed by police in an exchange of gunfire at the same construction site).
In contrast to its listing of the Dustin Inman Society as a “hate group” because of its lawful advocacy against illegal immigration, the SPLC steadfastly has refused to label Antifa similarly.
More baffling even than the SPLC’s double standard for deciding what groups merits the “hate” label, is the Center’s ongoing fascination with “male supremacy.” Earlier this week, for example, an opinion piece featured on the SPLC website declared that the . . . Threat Of Male Supremacy Is Growing. Interestingly, however, for a category of “hate” that is supposedly “growing,” there appears only a single such entity on the Center’s most recent national “Male Supremacy Hate Map.”
That recent article on “male supremacy” was preceded in April of this year by a much longer piece also on the Center’s website, titled Male Supremacy Is At The Core Of The hard Right’s Agenda authored by Cassie Miller. It is this treatise that displays the true motive for the Center’s focus on such an odd topic as “male supremacy” – a vehicle by which to target traditional American culture and those who the SPLC considers to be its supporters; namely, Ron DeSantis (whose picture figures prominently in the opinion piece), Donald Trump, and the Republican Party.
Also featured in Ms. Miller’s screed against masculinity is a photo montage of a traditional American family, consisting of a father, a mother, and two children walking hand-in-hand. That picture appears directly beneath the heading “HATEWATCH,” and it tells you everything you need to know about the true agenda of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Mr. Barr is just figuring this out now?
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s True Agenda Is the same as George soros’ agenda
S. P. L. C. G. R. I. F. T. D. E. M. O. C. R. A. T.
Their true objective is to Get Rich!
They scare the gullible into believing there is a white supremacist under every rock, so they get showered with donations and grants. And, it works.
Ping
Used to be lauded here by some to south bash and race bait
An SPLC-related story that many may not be familiar with:
David Ruenzel
“This is the kind of atmosphere that David Ruenzel helped to create with his early and oft-cited work on white privilege for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The kind mentioned in his obituaries. The kind that blinded him to the dangers of being a white person in a black neighborhood in Oakland.
Other visitors to the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve where Ruenzel was murdered describe the trail as idyllic. An oasis. A hidden gem.
But commentators to the Oakland news site that reported Ruenzel’s death were a bit more explicit: “That parking lot is a well known site for smash and grabs,” said one of several. Others pointed out graffiti and other crimes.
Another commentator, as if he were channeling the dead writer, chided anyone who suggested however slightly that white people are at risk of violent crime from black people in Oakland: “I’ve never read more atrocious comments. The white fear/hate is pretty scary.”
This is the world the Southern Poverty Law Center hath wrought: Comments about killing are scarier than killing itself.”
“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.’”
“...the SPLC is today a shell of its former self...”
Not true, the SPLC has ALWAYS been a money-making hate-mongering fraud patterned after the ADL.
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Nah. The SPLC’s primary agenda is to make gobs of $$$$$$$$$ to pay their executive staff massive salaries. The rest is ancillary to that.
Nonsense.
Their founding goal was to create wealth for Morris Dees.
He is and always was a con man.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center’s True Agenda Is the Destruction of America’s Culture”
Pretty much the agenda of all Leftists organizations, along with destroying the country itself.
SPLC and ADL need to both be totally ignored by society.
> laudable mission of fighting the KKK
A cover to fund the real agenda.
It’s more accurate to say...
The mission of the SPLC is to foster, breed and provoke racism. Racism at every corner under every rock. If it doesn’t exist, then we invent it. The very existence of the SPLC relies on racism, division and strife. Without it... SPLC dies and the flow of free cash and political power disappears.
So contribute to our scam and give generously to keep the hustle alive and we will give you the best in grifters, activism and fear mongering that money can buy. We work for your entitlement every day so you won’t have to work! Our specialty is crisis creation and wealth extraction. We will extract from the producers and give that free shit to you minus our fees(not to exceed 98%). You have a right to be a parasite on society as long as you fight for it... and we will be there as your soldiers in getting what you deserve.
The SPLC. Our scam, is your scam.
“...titled Male Supremacy Is At The Core Of The hard Right’s Agenda”
Oooh, the “hard Right”. Someone should open a restaurant and call it the “Hard Right Cafe”.
They are talking about male supremacy when their founder wa sexually harassing women?
Actually the SPLC is aptly named; for its true purpose is to spread Souther Poverty across the nation.
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