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   From: jane.fonda.socialist.report@cnn.com   
      
   The Southern Poverty Law Center was long ago exposed as money-   
   making scam.   
      
   It has amassed almost half-a-billion dollars fighting an   
   imaginary tide of “hate” that is ever “rising,” which provides   
   the twin benefits of bringing in that money and advancing the   
   totalitarian goals of the radical Left. Topping that agenda is   
   demonizing any opposition to the Left as “hate,” be it racism,   
   homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia.   
      
   But last week, the discredited group fired its co-founder,   
   Morris Dees, a shocker in the “civil rights community” that   
   opened the door to discussing exactly who Dees is and what goes   
   on at SPLC, also called the Poverty Palace.   
      
   Former SPLC staff member Bob Moser took to the New Yorker   
   yesterday to elaborate on what we’ve known for some time: The   
   SPLC is, again, a money-making scam. But he revealed that truth   
   from the inside.   
      
   Until Justice Rolls Down Like Dollars   
   A detailed report in the Los Angeles Times explained that SPLC   
   fired Dees likely because of the long-term abuse of women and   
   blacks at the organization.   
      
   Stephen Bright, a Yale law professor and former director of the   
   Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, told the Times that   
   SPLC’s fundraising is “fraudulent,” and called Dees a “flimflam   
   man and he’s managed to flimflam his way along for many years   
   raising money by telling people about the Ku Klux Klan and hate   
   groups,” he said. “He sort of goes to whatever will sell and   
   has, of course, brought in millions and millions and millions of   
   dollars.”   
      
   The flim-flam man’s career is officially over, and Moser offers   
   a few insights that open with an amusing but telling vignette:   
      
   I’ve been thinking about the jokes my S.P.L.C. colleagues and I   
   used to tell to keep ourselves sane. Walking to lunch past the   
   center’s Maya Lin-designed memorial to civil-rights martyrs,   
   we’d cast a glance at the inscription from Martin Luther King,   
   Jr., etched into the black marble — “Until justice rolls down   
   like waters”— and intone, in our deepest voices, “Until justice   
   rolls down like dollars.” The Law Center had a way of turning   
   idealists into cynics.   
      
   Working in a building that “made social justice ‘look   
   despotic,’” the earnest young leftist quickly learned that   
   fighting hate involved a lot of hypocrisy and a lot more money.   
      
   Of the hypocrisy, Moser wrote, blacks at SPLC were almost   
   uniformly “administrative and support staff — ‘the help,’ one of   
   my black colleagues said pointedly.” But the “‘professional   
   staff’ — the lawyers, researchers, educators, public-relations   
   officers, and fund-raisers — were almost exclusively white. Just   
   two staffers, including me, were openly gay.”   
      
   Of the money-making, Moser quotes another of Dees’s critics, who   
   says Dees viewed “civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool   
   for bilking gullible Northern liberals.”   
      
   So beyond Dees’s having a “reputation for hitting on young   
   women,” SPLC is just a storefront for selling the “fight against   
   hate” to make a pile of money. “The work could be meaningful and   
   gratifying,” Moser wrote. “But it was hard, for many of us, not   
   to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a   
   highly profitable scam.”   
      
   SPLC, a former staff member said to Moser, was a “virtual buffet   
   of injustices.”   
      
   Moser eventually admits that he and other staffers didn’t care   
   enough about their own integrity to blow the whistle:   
      
   Outside of work, we spent a lot of time drinking and dishing in   
   Montgomery bars and restaurants about the oppressive security   
   regime, 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.   
      
   It wasn’t funny then. At this moment, it seems even grimmer.   
      
   But Moser and this coworkers participated in the “making hate   
   pay.”   
      
   No Objections at All to What SPLC Did   
   Not once in this half-apology for joining this massive fraud did   
   Moser express sorrow for helping smear innocent conservatives.   
      
   Aside from defaming mainstream conservatives, SPLC’s application   
   of the “hate group” label inspired an attempted mass murder at   
   the Family Research Council.   
      
   But Moser’s concern was this: “As critics have long pointed out,   
   however, the hate-group designations also drive attention to the   
   extremists. Many groups, including the religious-right Family   
   Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom, raise   
      
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