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Hate, Inc.

Posted on | February 24, 2011 | 12 Comments

The Southern Poverty Law Center continues its Exaggeration for Dollars campaign, as Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection documents. They still claim that the Klan is on the march in Rhode Island (???) and 2010 was another banner year for hate groups, says the SPLC:

For the second year in a row, the radical right in America expanded explosively in 2010, driven by resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the government’s handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and other demonizing propaganda aimed at various minorities. For many on the radical right, anger is focusing on President Obama, who is seen as embodying everything that’s wrong with the country.

This trick of conflating the scary dangerous “radical right” with, you know, conservative Republicans, is something the SPLC has done more and more since hiring former USA Today reporter Mark Potok 15 years ago.

Note that, in a report entitled “The Year in Hate & Extremism 2010,” the SPLC finds occasion to mention the shooting of Gabby Giffords, which happened in January 2011. So we presume they’ll get two years’ worth of fund-raising “hate” value out of the same crime, committed by a Zeitgeist-obsessed left-wing psychotic (rather than by anyone associated with the right, radical or otherwise.) Note that a search of the SPLC’s site for the terms “Zeitgeist” and “Loughner” yields zero results.

How very convenient . . .

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  • Anonymous

    SPLC, that’s the notorious Multiculturalist Supremacy group right?

  • http://twitter.com/sdo1 Steve in TN

    The Southern Poverty Law Center ain’t Southern, ain’t poor, and twist the law beyond all recognition… Other than that, they are well named.

  • DaveO

    Have to admit: the shtick works. The SPLC jumped the shark so long and so often, and donors just see some southern white nazi shark, eager to rend and tear innocent non-caucasian non-baptists.

    Don’t blame the SPLC – blame the evil that contributes money, year after loathsome year. Perhaps an expose?

  • Anonymous

    I see no reason why we shouldn’t”t blame both, you know to support equality.

  • Morris Dees, Super Attorney

    You need to be progressive like me!

    http://www.zianet.com/web/dees1.htm

    Later in the marriage he repeatedly told her of
    women that he had had sexual intercourse with during the marriage (R. 354).
    He said further that he enjoyed trying to turn on gay people and he
    expressed a desire to have an experience with a gay (R. 354).

    http://www.zianet.com/web/dees2.htm

    G. Morris’ Step-Daughter. Holly Buck, Maureene’s daughter
    by a previous marriage, is eighteen years old (R. 728). She was
    seven years old when her mother and Morris married, and she has
    lived with them in the house at Mathews from then until the
    separation (R. 728). Holly testified that, in the summer of 1977,
    Morris attempted to molest her in the following incident (R. 729):
    One night Maureene and Morris were sitting drinking wine and
    discussing a case Morris was trying. She was with them. Around
    eleven or twelve o’clock Maureene went to bed and Holly stayed up
    with Morris discussing the case. Morris kept offering Holly wine,
    some of which she accepted. At Morris’ suggestion, they went
    outside to the pool, and he suggested that they go for a swim, but
    Holly was tired and declined (R. 731). She went to her room and
    then went into the bathroom. Looking out the window, she saw Morris
    in the bushes beside the bathroom window looking in (R. 731). She
    said “Morris, is that you”, but he said nothing and ran away (R.
    732). Two months later, she was asleep one night and Morris entered
    her room from Ellie’s room, through the bathroom. He was in his
    underwear and he sat on the bed where Holly was lying on her stomach
    facing away from the door. He touched her on the back and woke her
    up. He told her that he had brough her a present, and he presented
    her with a vibrator. He plugged it in and said he had brought it to
    her. He proceeded to rub it on her back and said, “Let me show you
    how to use it” (R. 733). She said that’s not necessary, but he
    started to place it between her legs when she raised he voice and
    said no loudly. He then took the vibrator and left (R. 734). All
    he had on was a pair of bikini underwear shorts (R. 734). About two
    hours later, she had fallen back asleep and he came back in (R.
    735). He brought the vibrator with him, plugged it in and said
    again, “Let me show you how to use it.” He tried to show her again
    by putting it between her legs, but she raised her voice again and
    he stopped. He took it and left (R. 635). She did not tell her
    mother about this incident until the separation when they moved out
    of the Mathews house in the spring of 1979 (R. 736).

  • http://pumping-irony.livejournal.com/ Wilbur Post

    That would leave “center” – unless we now live in a universe where Karl Marx is a right-winger, I think we can throw “center” out too.

  • Anonymous

    O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. http://goo.gl/WaFo4

  • Anonymous

    1. There is no legal definition for “hate group,” which is why even the FBI does not track “hate groups.”

    2. The SPLC uses the deliberately meaningless term “hate groups” in its fund-raising propaganda precisely because it allows them to denigrate their perceived opponents without accusing them of any actual crimes.

    3. The “Hate Map” is a fund-raising tool, nothing more. It provides no information whatsoever on the alleged groups, in fact, the SPLC didn’t even bother to make up locations for 262 of the groups; that’s 26% of the total.

    In many states, the percentage of phantom “groups” runs as high as 80-100%. Many of the alleged “groups” are listed twice in the same location.

    4. Since the SPLC is the sole arbiter of the meaningless “hate group” label, AND because SPLC fund-raising is directly tied to creating the illusion of an ever-increasing threat, it is in their direct financial interest to raise the numbers each year.

    Last year the SPLC took in $31 million donor-dollars in donations and earned $26 million in interest on its bloated “Endowment Fund.” That’s $57 million dollars for last year alone. Since 2003, the SPLC has taken in more than a third of a BILLION dollars in tax-free cash, and yet the number of “hate groups” always goes up.

    http://wp.me/pCLYZ-82

    5. The most ironic (read: “hypocritical”) thing about the Southern Poverty Law Center is that NOT ONE of its top ten, highest paid executives is a minority.

    http://wp.me/pCLYZ-7m

    In fact, according to the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King’s home church, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of power in its entire 40 year history.

    Some “experts”

  • Anonymous

    I recall seeing a map on a website ( don’t remember the name) that tracked SPLC’s list of “different” hate groups which listed local chapters of the same Nazi organization in NC as separate “hate groups”. This multiplied the number of groups in NC six or seven times.

  • Anonymous

    A classic example of this is tiny New Hampshire.

    According to the SPLC’s “hate map,” there are five “hate groups” in NH, but when you look at the map you see that two of them are homeless, (we just know they are really, really there…) and two of them in tiny Richmond are one and the same place.

    Since nobody ever questions the SPLC’s bogus “data” they just make up “groups” and pad their numbers at will.

    http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=NH

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