You’ll recall the Southern Poverty Law Center recently targeting the Manosphere – bloggers like Roosh, Ferdinand Bardamu, Paul Elam, and W.F. Price. The SPLC published an “Intelligence Report” which I and others argued is evidence of “mission creep” over at SPLC. Manufacturing “hate groups” and “extremists” out of thin air helps keep the SPLC relevant. It’s the liberal version of Jack Van Impe. Scare the hell out of the good donors in order to keep the phones ringing and the checks coming in.
On the complete other end of the spectrum is Joseph Farah, founder of WND. In a recent op-ed there he points out that SPLC is set to publish an Intelligence Report focusing on Farah and his right-leaning publication. WND is one of the last outfits still entertaining questions over President Obama’s birth place and birth certificate. WND also opposed gay marriage, and they’ve increasingly addressed the increasing number of black-on-white attacks that have occurred across the country of late*. Farah wrote:
Any day now, expect to see a major hit piece on WND in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report.
I was informed by Leah Nelson, an SPLC intelligence project fellow, that the fear-mongering scam is preparing a “profile” of WND in the next issue. Nelson was soliciting an interview with me – kind of like the executioner granting the wrongly convicted the opportunity to speak his last words.
No thanks.
I already know the SPLC’s conclusions about me and WND.
Here’s the gist of it. The present-day SPLC is still riding the coattails of the bygone SPLC (I say this assuming but not knowing for sure that SPLC once did solid work against outfits like the KKK). So they’ve had to loosen the definition of the term “hate group” or increased the scope of their mission to the point that more and more people find the organization a joke. It’s not that the Manosphere or WND are completely correct in everything they say, but do they do and say things that warrant the wrath of the SPLC – the organization that once went after actual hate groups that were hell bent on inflicting pain on the country and on minorities? Typically, the media has lagged the progression. The SPLC, like the ADL, is still the go-to for any story about potential hate groups. They have a duopoly on what “deserves” to be marginalized.
This is actually a good thing. The more that the SPLC tarnishes its brand by going after low-hanging fruit, the quicker it completely dilutes its power and authority. It’s sort of like investment analysts during the stock market bubble. Everything was a buy to these guys, and they finally worked themselves out of a job because nobody put stock in their “Buy” ratings anymore after they’d looked at what was being peddled.
*For the record, I’m not a Birther, but I don’t think that Birthers are absolutely bat-shit crazy like anti-Birthers believe. The latest flare up is a good example of Obama being unclear about his past.
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This article is a perfect example of how you’re potentially seen as a good-faith writer by your ideological opponents. I continue to believe that dialogue with liberals is possible, and that change can be effected via honest communication. Even if principal actors like SPLC remain implacable, third-party audiences will be influenced by you.
In contrast with you, someone like me or some of the other bloggers, gives quickly to emotion. Hate of liberalism keeps us from keeping a soft-touch about certain subjects.
I disagree about this being a good thing. SPLC launching attacks on non-PC opinion groups makes the phrase “hate group” meaningless, just like the exclamation of “wolf!” in the fairy tale.
But wolves come. Instead of an SLPC that can use its clout form it’s days fighting the KKK and lynching to rightly raise the alert about Islamist supremacy and other real dangers, we have one that has traded a venerable history for a roll as just another PC cop.
Yes, like the Fed the SPLC has been working the press overtime, creating more and more of its fake currency. It passes it off, expecting par value.
Unfortunately, they only have one play. They can scream racism louder and louder. The patient develops a tolerance and eventually becomes resistant.
I am surprised at how easily they have passed off their POV to you on the KKK. Perhaps you might perform a study of it, beyond what you see on television, movies and kosher literature.
Check out the salaries of the people working at the SPLC. Something on the order of 90% of the cash that comes in goes straight to their very over paid employees. SPLC is nothing more than a charity scam that uses scare tactics to keep themselves fat and happy.
I would be interested in credible sources on the history of the Klan, about which I know very little. A notion contrarian to the prevailing narrative may point to them as citizens’ self-protection from violent, ill-meaning black individuals in a time before calling 911 was an option. Perhaps it’s also a fact that the Klan was so effective at keeping potential offenders at arms’ length that they became gratuitously abusive… mission-creep, if you will.
Either way, I don’t know the truth on this subject but would like know where to look for it.
Morris Dees is comfortably retired, living next to an exclusive Montgomery country club, and I suspect he doesn’t really care any longer. Heidi Beirich runs the show now, and doesn’t hold a candle to Dees. They’ve turned to suing various local school districts over LGBT issues (e.g. high school prom disputes) under her leadership.
http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/resource/051712_SPLC_Letter_to_HCHS__Board.pdf
The SPLC are the John Birchers of the left. I give them five years to irrelevance.
A decade ago the SPLC were smearing Richard Lamm, the three term Democratic governor of Colorado, who was a hero of the environmental movement.
The SPLC has piled up a quarter of a billion dollars by providing various foci for unfocused, freefloating Jewish anxiety and animus. It’s a living. Maybe targeting a distinguished liberal WASP environmentalist like Richard Lamm is a little obvious, but, times being what they are, who is going to get the joke?
I thought they didn’t actually label the MR sites as hate sites though.
Maybe not, but when they are nitpicking on things like referring to fictional characters as “dykes”… they really have way too much time (and money) on their hands.
Donors who give to the SPLC know precisely what they are buying. It is the most effective way to attack the people they hate; White Christian Conservatives. Now we can add men to the list. Nothing they do is by accident. Their recent foray into the manosphere was preceded by an equally clumsy attempt to get in to the immigration debate a few years ago. They are clearly looking replicate their formula and expand into new markets. The thing I find most intriguing is who the SPLC chose to attack. They seemed to be particularly focused on people and websites that use the same formula they do, that is revealing persons and organizations that engage in activities they don’t like. With enough pressure using the threat of lawsuits, firings, loss of sponsors or advertisers, personal smears, and the like they can bully people into not effectively advocating for their interests. Going after someone like Pierce Harlan and the False Rape Society is particularly ironic. You would think they would be on the short list of civil rights organizations the SPLC would be supporting. Their drive by smearing of MRA tells me they won’t have any influence or staying power in the fight and they know it. It also tells me who they are afraid of and why.
PA,
I think anyone can agree that a story has at least two sides. With the dominance of the MSM, one only hears a single POV. Of course, there are no unbiased observers, and everyone always has an angle, especially those who claim to have none.
It shouldn’t be hard at all to find good information. You already know the kosher side by heart – you’ve heard it since birth. Poke around a bit.
I found this from the KKK’s site.
“”There is a race war against whites. But our people – my white brothers and sisters – will stay committed to a non-violent resolution. That resolution must consist of solidarity in white communities around the world. The hatred for our children and their future is growing and is being fueled every single day. Stay firm in your convictions. Keep loving your heritage and keep witnessing to others that there is a better way than a war torn, violent, wicked, socialist, new world order. That way is the Christian way – law and order – love of family – love of nation. These are the principles of western Christian civilization. There is a war to destroy these things. Pray that our people see the error of their ways and regain a sense of loyalty. Repent America! Be faithful my fellow believers. “
Birther? Let’s see. Police investigators in Arizona quickly ascertained the Obama birth certificate was false, made up with a photo editor. They issued a lengthy report with video.
Obama’s lawyers in NJ admitted under oath the birth certificate was false. So attempts to discredit Arapio become useless.
Obama’s biography in publicity for 1990′s books said he was born in Kenya.
I have seen no evidence to date that Obama is anything but an illegal alien.
There are certain procedures one must follow when born of a US citizen, and at age 18 when he had to follow those procedures to affirm US citizenship, he was busy obtaining citizenship in another nation.
The term birther is itself nothing but a gratuitous insult.
Yeah, there was some funky business going on with the whole Obama birth certificate thing. Anyone who really knows anything should be careful: coming clean might mean a midnight disappearance or a coincidental car accident that ends up being surprisingly fatal. At this point, it’s not clear much of the media would cover such an event, so mailing info to a newspaper might not help.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. Obama is a useful stooge. Anyone who thinks Obama is behind anything is a dupe. He’s a front man for a tiny clique of ideological warriors. He’s avoided anything even approaching leadership his entire time in office. He’s let down everyone, but most especially his own supporters. If ever there was a mealy middle ground, Obama gravitates from there to a bit to the left with no great conviction.
It’s the political environment that’s left-wing. Focusing on Obama is a mistake. The lefty misanthropes will just replace him with another convenient stooge.
Hilary Clinton would be an animal of a different stripe. I’d put money on her making her husband look like a teddy bear.
The SPLC was never really anything but an ideological focal point in a war. Now that the primary target has been eliminated, it needs a new purpose.
Bureaucracies always seek a new purpose. Give the SPLC’s need to scare people into donating, it will choose the most radical front represented by its members. Over time, its membership will get more and more radicalized, because it brings in the most money. At some point, they overreach or find themselves stranded on the beach when the tide recedes a bit.
That time is coming.
“He’s a front man for a tiny clique of ideological warriors”
Well said. That entire comment.
One group is not touched with a ten-foot pole: Planned Parenthood. Although PP places its abortion clinics mainly in neighborhoods of People of Color, SPLC doesn’t want a fight with that giant.
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