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The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This
is largely due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein
Obama.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s problems go well beyond the
fact it’s a vicious, left-wing attack dog with no care
whatsoever for the reputational and personal harm it causes by
lumping Christians and anti-extremist activists with actual neo-
Nazis.

As it turns out, the SPLC is a cynical money-making scheme,
according to a former staffer’s blistering tell-all, published
this week in the New Yorker. The center’s chief goal is to bilk
naive and wealthy donors who believe it's an earnest effort to
combat bigotry.

The only thing worse than a snarling partisan activist is a
slimy conman who merely pretends to be one.

“Outside of work,” author Bob Moser recalls of his days working
for the supposed anti-hate group, “we spent a lot of time
drinking and dishing in Montgomery bars and restaurants about …
the hyperbolic fund-raising appeals, and the fact that, though
the center claimed to be effective in fighting extremism, ‘hate’
always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous than ever,
with each year’s report on hate groups. ‘The S.P.L.C.—making
hate pay,’ we’d say.”

“[I]t was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become
pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam,”
he adds.

The way Moser tells it, the center’s chief founder, Morris Dees,
who was dismissed unceremoniously last week for unspecified
reasons, discovered early on that he could rake in boatloads of
cash by convincing “gullible Northern liberals” that his group
is doing the hard work of fighting “hate.”

But the center’s supposed mission of combating bigotry doesn’t
actually matter to its top brass, Moser says. It’s just a
business choice and one that has been extremely lucrative
throughout the years. Moser’s article reminds readers of the
time Dees actually said of the SPLC in an interview with then-
Progressive magazine reporter John Egerton, “We just run our
business like a business. Whether you’re selling cakes or
causes, it’s all the same.”

The group’s failure to live up to the ideals it supposedly
champions is never more apparent than in its alleged treatment
of female and minority staffers, Moser writes. To wit, female
employees are routinely subjected to sexual harassment and
minorities rarely make it out of administrative and support
roles, he alleges.

But the sleaziest thing of all, out of everything Moser details,
is the allegation that his former employer’s business model
centers entirely around keeping donors in a state of constant,
wallet-opening panic. The SPLC, which enjoys a sterling
reputation in the press as a serious and knowledgeable authority
on bigotry and extremism in the U.S., does this to great effect
with sleek gimmicks such as its infamous “hate maps” and “hate
lists,” all of which are shared widely by an extremely eager,
fawning news media.

“[T]he center continues to take in far more than it spends. And
it still tends to emphasize splashy cases that are sure to draw
national attention,” he writes adding the group’s “central
strategy” involves “taking on cases guaranteed to make headlines
and inflame the far right while demonstrating to potential
donors that the center has not only all the right enemies but
also the grit and know-how to take them down.”

Moser adds there is an inescapable sense of “guilt” that comes
with thinking about “the legions of donors who believed that
their money was being used, faithfully and well, to do the
Lord’s work in the heart of Dixie. We were part of the con, and
we knew it.”

Who knew you could make the big bucks simply by lumping Ayaan
Hirsi Ali and Ben Carson with actual, honest-to-God neo-Nazis?

Everyone at SPLC did, apparently.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2019/03/25/the_southern_povert y_law_center_scam_469925.html
 

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