Defund the SPLC

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Hello John,

There is no shortage of hypocrisy on the left. And one of the most prolific purveyors of double-standards and false accusations is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

In an entry in the National Center’s Conservativeblog.org, Free Enterprise Project Associate Davis Soderberg chronicles the abuses of the SPLC – which promotes hate and fear in its alleged crusade against racism.

Despite its claims, Davis noted, the group is not much more than political-oriented fundraising that has duped even corporate America into lending its support:

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes itself as a catalyst for social justice through its efforts to dismantle white supremacy and hate, while advancing human rights for all people. It claims to be an organization that fights for racial equality, especially in institutional structures.

At face value, it sounds like a great organization… But don’t be fooled.

The SPLC is a money-making scheme that fails to internally engage in the same anti-racism it preaches, and an organization that does more to incite hate than to stop it. It continues to mask itself as a social justice champion, receiving millions of dollars each year from individual donations, and, worse, from our nation’s largest corporations. The entities that are funding this campaign are responsible for legitimizing an illegitimate organization and there must be steps taken to defund the SPLC. Of course, “defund” usually refers to government spending, but corporate spending matters too, especially as corporations increasingly seek to take on more and more policy-making roles that intrude into Americans’ lives…

One of the organization’s top priorities is to make as much money as possible. This is the case with most companies, but the SPLC does so by scaring people into believing there is “hate” where none exists and by acting as a combatant to receive more donations. This phony money-making trick is apparent through the organization’s “Hate Map” and extremist list.

Every year, SPLC researchers release a digital map displaying all the groups they identify as “hate groups,” which must fall under the SPLC’s incredibly broad definition of “hate.” The number of groups has grown drastically under President Trump’s tenure, which leftists and the SPLC claim is a direct result of the president’s rhetoric. However, the more groups placed on this list, the more the mainstream media will blow it out of proportion, and the alleged growth in hate will ultimately result in people donating more to the cause. The SPLC knows this, and it uses this scheme to make money and to undermine the conservative movement.

For most of the groups that the SPLC deems “hateful,” the size of the group is not given. Is this one hateful person in his mom’s basement tweeting racist things? Is this a truly threatening group with hundreds of members? The SPLC is reluctant to provide this information because it would make its hate declarations look silly. Additionally, research into many of these groups reveals that no information is available on them. Who are they? Do they even exist?

Progressive sympathizer and Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson gets straight to the point by declaring that “[t]he biggest problem with the hate map, though, is that it’s an outright fraud. I don’t use that term casually. I mean, the whole thing is a willful deception designed to scare older liberals into writing checks to the SPLC.”…

While the Southern Poverty Law Center unjustifiably labels hate, it simultaneously makes people feel threatened, leading them to their own hateful acts. One of the darkest examples of this was the shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters in 2012. Former FRC employee Jessica Prol Smith, who was present during the shooter’s ambush, explained, “I never expected that everyone would celebrate or share my beliefs. But I did expect to be able to discuss and debate these differences without becoming a political target in an act of terrorism.” The FRC is an advocacy group for the traditional nuclear family structure and for pro-life policy, which led the SPLC to deem it a “hate group.” The shooter later admitted in FBI testimony that the reason he chose the FRC as a target was because it had appeared on the SPLC hate list…

Along with the FRC, other conservative organizations have been targeted as hateful. These groups include Catholic Family Ministries, American Family Association, Jewish Defense League, Alliance Defending Freedom, PragerU, and the list goes on and on. The SPLC even placed HUD Secretary Ben Carson on its extremist list.

Why then, with all this public information, do companies like Amazon, Microsoft, PayPal, Alphabet and Apple continue to funnel money into this illegitimate organization? Shouldn’t these institutions stand up to the SPLC and push to defund it?...

Are these major corporations unaware that the SPLC isn’t what it claims to be, or are they turning a blind eye to this evidence to help push the liberal agenda forward?

These corporations’ leaders need to held accountable and pressured to respond to this simple question. The SPLC is social justice gone wrong and its faults are clear. As liberals foolishly push to defund our police force, conservatives should create a movement to defund an organization that actually deserves such treatment: the Southern Poverty Law Center.

To read all of Davis’s blog post – “Defund the SPLC” – click here.

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