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   From: jane.fonda.socialist.report@cnn.com   
      
   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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