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Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder Morris Dees for unspecified misconduct
I was critical of the Southern Poverty Law Center before it was cool to be critical of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
You can scroll through my posts about the SPLC dating back to 2009, including:
Women’s March losing more big partners
The Daily Beast has reported that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has decided not to partner with the Women's March this year.
SPLC considers Nation of Islam, which is led by Louis Farrakhan, a hate group. Women's March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour are some of Farrakhan's biggest supporters.
Coalition of left-wing activist groups calls on big tech to censor online speech
While you were focused on the midterm elections, the Kavanaugh hearings, and other media firestorms, a coalition of left-wing activist groups, including some that actively attack conservatives, has moved forward with efforts to get big tech companies to censor online speech.
The problem of big tech companies acting as speech gatekeepers has been a focus here for a long time. What starts with calls to censor "Nazis"and "White Supremacists" inevitably morphs into broader attempts to censor anyone who is right of center or deemed to have expressed politically incorrect views.
Report: FBI Still Partnering With SPLC; GOP Rep Demands Answers
Several years ago, there was an outcry from the right about the FBI's partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). At the time, it seemed that the relationship might have been severed; however, it apparently was not and, to date, has not been.
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is demanding answers.
SPLC apologizes, pays $3.375 mil settlement for wrongfully labelling Maajid Nawaz an anti-Muslim extremist
Couldn't have happened to a nicer organization.
Monday, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced they'd forked over $3 million in a settlement over the inclusion of Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation in their Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.
Reporters Must Ask Clooney One Key Question About the SPLC
George Clooney makes some reporters swoon, and it has little to do with his handsome mug.
The Oscar winner is one of the industry's more thoughtful stars, sharing his progressive views in a way his peers can't often match. He's hobnobbed with President Barack Obama, testified before Congress and traveled the globe to research causes near and dear to his heart.
This is my *shocked* face: Amazon turns over policing of its charity program to SPLC
We got kicked out of the Amazon Associates program for reasons that remain unknown.
Amazon told us that its "criteria" used to kick us out were proprietary. Amazon would not provide evidence of our alleged Operating Agreement violations to us or to the Daily Caller News Foundation, which was investigating the story.
Legal Threat Prompts Southern Poverty Law Center to Delete ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ List
In recent years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become little more than a tool the progressive left uses to label people and organizations as promoters of hate. Their website even included a list of people the group claimed were anti-Muslim extremists.
SPLC Thinks ‘Factual Feminist’ Christina Hoff Sommers Legitimizes ‘Male Supremacy’ Movement
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), known for targeting right-leaning thinkers and organizations, included Factual Feminist Christina Hoff Sommers in its report on male supremacy, which the group describes as "a hateful ideology advocating for the subjugation of women."
They contend Hoff Sommers legitimizes "male supremacy."
Southern Poverty Law Center Now Targeting Conservative Groups on College Campuses
“monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right”...
Prager U Exposes The Southern Poverty Law Center
The "Anti-Hate" Group That Is a Hate Group...
Anti-Defamation League Gets Partisan, and the Damage May Be Irreparable
This post originally was published by The Gatestone Institute, under the title What Happened to the ADL? Cross-posted with permission.
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In the months leading up to the U.S. presidential election in November 2016, a former director of the World Jewish Congress decried the direction in which the new head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was taking the international human rights group. In a series of columns, Isi Leibler -- a prominent Australian Israeli -- blasted ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, for turning the 100-year-old organization, whose mission is to monitor and expose anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, into a platform that "represents an echo chamber of left-wing Democratic politics."
Warning or Incitement? SPLC Publishes List of Places, Monuments With “Confederate” Names
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) SPLC has repeatedly listed a great many mainstream, right-leaning, and/or conservative groups and persons as "hate groups." So indiscriminate are they in their listings that they have been forced to retract "hate group" claims when called upon to provide evidence or to defend its categorization.
The SPLC has been making news lately in relation to its being touted as an "authority" on "hate groups." SPLC lists are being used not only by unbalanced people who believe the lists and then go on a rampage but as a means of internet censorship and even massive, unscrupulous fundraising in the wake of Charlottesville.
In a 2007 interview, a former SPLC spokesman proudly boasted that the goal of SPLC, its "aim in life," is to "destroy these groups, completely destroy them."
Southern Poverty Law Center money machine cashes in on Charlottesville
I've been covering the manipulative "hate" lists put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center for almost eight years, long before it was fashionable to do so.
I took an interest in it because as a past contributor to SPLC, I was deeply offended by the use of these lists to target political opponents who posed no threat of violence. SPLC's tactics are the exact opposite of what I was taught, that the best anecdote to offensive speech is more speech, not less.
Charlottesville is being exploited to attack freedom of speech and internet freedom
This was a really bad week for freedom of speech and internet freedom.
As documented in my post Gathering Storms And Threats to Liberty, corporations that operate the gateways to the internet, such as domain registrars and services such as Cloudfare, have come under pressure and have capitulated to drive the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer from the internet. That pressure is now moving to other organizations based on biased and politicized "hate" lists from groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League.
I pointed out the danger to internet freedom:
ABC and NBC Help SPLC Smear Successful Religious Liberty Law Organization as “Hate” Group
I have written often, and recently, about the corrosive effect of the Southern Poverty Law Center's highly-politicized "hate" and "extremist" lists.
Politico also recently focused on the problem, which I described in Southern Poverty Law Center “extremist” lists used “to silence speech and speakers”, including this quote from the Politico article:
Ron Coleman