[ April 17, 2024 ]
Last month, a number of my esteemed colleagues and I signed a letter calling out America’s leading source of information on U.S. charities, Guide Star, on its use flagrant use of the SPLC’s hate labels in smearing conservative organizations.
Letter: 2017.06.21_vfinal_signatures_LTR_Coalition to Guidestar-Harold Jacobs
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, write to express our strong disagreement with Guidestar’s newly implemented policy that labels 46 American organizations as “hate groups.” Your designations are based on determinations made by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a hard-left activist organization. As such, SPLC’s aggressive political agenda pervades the construction of its “hate group” listings.
Story continues below advertisementThe SPLC has no bona fides to make such determinations. It is not a governmental organization using a rigorous criteria to create its lists, and it is not a scientifically oriented organization. The SPLC is merely another “progressive” political organization. It gained credibility attacking Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and skinheads – many of whom were engaged in violence. The SPLC is now trying to export the same tactics into areas of mainstream political discourse including debates about immigration and sexual-identity politics.
The “hate group” list is nothing more than a political weapon targeting people it deems to be its political enemies. The list is ad hoc, partisan, and agenda-driven.1 The SPLC doesn’t even pretend to identify groups on the political left that engage in “hate.” Mosques or Islamist groups that promote radical speech inciting anti-Semitism and actual violence are not listed by the SPLC even though many have been publicly identified after terrorist attacks. Radical, violent leftist environmentalists or speech suppressing thugs – like the rioting “antifa” movement – receive no mention from the SPLC.
Despite its denials to the contrary, this highly refined method of ostracism and dehumanization practiced by the SPLC isn’t just about verbal debate – it can foreseeably lead to violence. The SPLC’s primary goal is to achieve the political submission of its opponents, but its practice of sustained demonization in one’s community – which is what a “hate map” is all about – inflames passions of hatred and animus against its targets……
Read the whole thing here.
History has shown us that the norming of lies, libel, and smear is the road to hell. Literally.
“Former Reagan AG Slams ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ And SPLC,” by Will Ricciardella, Daily Caller News Foundation, July 20, 2017 (thanks to Todd):
Ed Meese, former attorney general in the Reagan administration, took aim at the media and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Wednesday for describing the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a “hate group.”
“The designation had nothing to do with the law firm’s policies or behavior. It’s just that the SPLC objects to its traditional views on the Constitution, the First Amendment and the meaning of marriage. No responsible media outlet should parrot the SPLC’s hate list without seeking to understand not only its motives but also the consequences of spreading false charges,” Meese wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
The ADF is a Christian civil rights group dedicated to protecting religious liberty, and advocating for traditional marriage, attracting the left’s ire. The group is currently representing a Colorado baker for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious freedom grounds. The Supreme Court will hear the high profile case next term.
Under the headline “Attorney General Jeff Sessions Criticized For Speaking To Hate Group,” NBC reported Jeff Sessions as giving a speech “to an organization designated as a “hate group” by a “prominent civil rights watchdog.”
ABC‘s headline was far more definitive, declaring “Jeff Sessions Addresses ‘Anti-LQBT Hate Group’ DOJ Won’t Release His Remarks.”
CNN referred to the ADF as a “self-described Christian religious freedom advocacy group known for anti-gay stances.”
The SPLC’s describes its Intelligence Project as being “internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups and other domestic extremists,” as well as “expos[ing] their activities to the public, the media and law enforcement.”
Mark Potok, the editor-in-chief of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report, has said previously that “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate crimes and so on … I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.”…
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6 Comments
6 years ago
SPLC is Left/Liberal propaganda tool funded by saudi/qatar/OIC to shut down , defame those who oppose their Islamization agenda
Their Lies should be exposed http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
….. time and again.
6 years ago
cnn is a self styled gossip monger with no credibility. Pulp fiction yellow journalism at best.
6 years ago
Not a revelation. There is a German government agency, a secret service to be specific. that does the SPLC hit jobs, too. They infiltrate the groups they try to smear and often commit crimes.
Don’t take my word for it! Research ‘Verfassungsschutz’ for yourself!
6 years ago
What qualifies the SPLC to call anyone a “hate group” when it is a hate group itself? Obviously it takes one to know one.
6 years ago
SPLC is a hard Left, self-hating Jewish owned and operated business.
6 years ago
The SPLC is owned and operated by self-hating Jews. All founders of the Hard Left and Communism were Jews: Marx, Lenin,Trotsky etc.
