Stossel: The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam

Stossel: The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam

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There are dangerous hate groups in America. So a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about them. They release an annual list of hate groups in America.

The media cover it, but John Stossel says they shouldn't. It's a scam.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali — who grew up Muslim in Somalia and suffered female genital mutilation — as an "anti-Muslim extremist." Just because she now speaks out against radical Islam.

They also list the conservative Family Research Council as a "hate group."

That listing led a man to go to the Council's office to try to gun down their workers. The shooter later told law enforcement that he picked the group because he saw they were on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map and he wanted to fight bigots.

Stossel disagrees with the Family Research Council on many issues. But he says they don't deserve to be called haters. The group's Executive Vice President, Jerry Boykin, tells him: "I don't hate gay people, and I know gay people, and I have worked with gay people."

Another group that the Southern Poverty Law Center smears is the Ruth Institute. The group argues that gays shouldn't have the same rights to adopt. But does that make them haters? No, says founder Jennifer Morse: "I have no problem with gay people. That's not the issue."

Other reporters, such as Megyn McArdle at Bloomberg, have also pointed out that the group is an odd fit for a "hate" list.

There are many non-hateful groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate list. But Antifa, which clearly is a hate group, is not on the list.

The Southern Poverty Law Center wouldn't talk to Stossel about their listings. Stossel says screaming "hate!" brings in money.

Morris Dees, the Center's founder, pays himself nearly half a million dollars a year. Although Dees once promised that when the Center's endowment reached $50 million, he'd stop fundraising, he didn't stop. Now the Center has $320 million dollars stashed away -- much of it in the Cayman Islands. It's all in their tax returns.

Stossel notes that they still con people into giving them even more money. Apple gave them $1 million last year.

He says the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.

Produced by Maxim Lott. Edited by Joshua Swain.


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The Southern Poverty Law Center---with a half-billion dollars at its disposal---practices ETHNIC INTIMIDATION on whomever it chooses.... often based solely on race and ethnicity! Yes, the SLPC has a distinct RACIAL PROGRAM.

There are numerous far right wing nationalist political parties in Israel, none of which are criticized by the SPLC. La Raza is a Mexican nationalist/Southwest United States irredentist advocacy group, and which is defended by the SPLC despite marches where many held signs such as "Kill Every White Male Over 14." However, the SPLC attacks Forza Nuova, an Italian nationalist political party. So according to the SPLC, Israeli nationalism is GOOD, Mexican nationalism is GOOD, but Italian nationalism is BAD. The former two were originally created by colonial supremacist movements. On the other hand, "Italians didn't steal Italy." Okay, someone could argue that the Roman Empire was the same type of colonial aggressor, however not within Italy; and even if there was some internal question of that sort, or of any other intrinsic sort, it certainly would not be any of their business.

The governments of both Israel and Mexico have stated on record as both being an "Ethnostate," a nation fully dedicated to ONE RACE only! In other words, the SPLC isn't really a civil rights group, but a powerful political lobbying apparatus with a particular agenda. They author demographically-incongruent bills submitted to the U.S. Senate, and have the political and media connections to push them through. There are numerous urban organizations in this country which call for outright violence and terrorism, but whom are ignored by the SLPC. Instead they incessantly watch and collect information on that tiny (using a hypothetical example) entirely non-political Asatru group which meets in the middle of the woods of rural eastern Oregon every week.

The SPLC absolutely will not leave alone certain very small, non-political Neopagan folk groups if they happen to follow ancient spiritual traditions which are European in origin. However ALL others are perfectly okay!.... because THEY said so!! They have a particular hatred for Asatru or Odinism, an ancient Teutonic religion once widespread throughout northern Europe, and some locations in southern and eastern Europe. After years of scrutiny without much "hate," they finally branded some of these groups as "hate groups" using the idea that they're "Volkish." VOOOLKISH!! Volkish simply means folkish, or something which is inherently a part of a particular people.

African-Americans who have discovered their Yoruba traditions, Native American traditions, Sheikhs, Shintoists, etc., are all following "folkish" traditions. I guess the German equivalent "VOLKISH" must make it evil.... because the SPLC says so! It's interesting that the SPLC has apparently not put Forza Nuova, which is present in New Jersey and Arizona, on their infamous "hate map." The ethnicity of the SPLC might feel that attacking Italians may not be good for donations at the present time. Everything they do is planned and calculated.

Some years ago, the SPLC listed a terror group which they called something like the "Algerian Armed Islamic Guerilla Organization" on their hate map. They claimed that this group was present all over the country (NYC, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, etc.). Then, all of a sudden, this group just disappeared into thin air! It was no longer listed, and nothing more was mentioned. I suspect that they just made up that group to pad their listings for their prospective donors, then finally realized the danger of listing a fake terror group; a move perhaps too audacious even for them.

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