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Since its founding in 1971 as an organization with the laudable mission of fighting the KKK and other white supremacy groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has raised hundreds of millions of dollars with which it has leveled countless legal and public relations attacks against various “hate groups.”
Money aside, however, the SPLC is today a shell of its former self, beset with internal unrest and displaying a muddled focus. The Center no longer maintains the aura of invincibility that for decades made it essentially immune from serious legal challenges.
Much of the Center’s current troubles can be traced to 2019, when a major scandal centered on sexual harassment allegations forced the ouster of its co-founder and long-time leader, Morris Dees. Perhaps as a result of that major setback, the SPLC appears to have lost its sharp edge, and now appears to be targeting “hate” groups for no clear reason other than because it can.
The Dustin Inman Society, based in a northwest suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, has found itself in those SPLC crosshairs because it has, since its founding in 2005, vocally opposed illegal immigration.
The SPLC on the other hand, has long defended immigration, so it is no surprise that for years, the Center expressed its dislike for the Dustin Inman Society and its founder, D.A. King. That changed, however, in 2018 when the SPLC decided to list the small Dustin Inman Society as a “hate group,” and noted it as such on the Center’s website.
In response to being thus targeted by the SPLC, the Dustin Inman Society sued the Center for defamation. In a decision last month, the federal judge before whom the lawsuit is pending in Alabama, ruled that the SPLC would have to submit to discovery by the Society. The judge’s refusal to dismiss the complaint likely surprised the SPLC’s lawyers, because for the first time it opened the door for a group targeted by the Center to be able to conduct extensive discovery probing how and why it decides to attach the “hate group” label to an organization.
This move will likely have far-reaching consequences for the formerly invulnerable SPLC.
The SPLC’s problems are not limited to the setback it suffered in the Dustin Inman Society lawsuit. One of its own lawyers, Thomas Webb Jurgens, was arrested earlier this Spring and charged with domestic terrorism as one of the suspected Antifa agitators involved in violent disturbances surrounding the construction of a new police training center in Atlanta (in January, another protestor was killed by police in an exchange of gunfire at the same construction site).
In contrast to its listing of the Dustin Inman Society as a “hate group” because of its lawful advocacy against illegal immigration, the SPLC steadfastly has refused to label Antifa similarly.
More baffling even than the SPLC’s double standard for deciding what groups merits the “hate” label, is the Center’s ongoing fascination with “male supremacy.” Earlier this week, for example, an opinion piece featured on the SPLC website declared that the . . . Threat Of Male Supremacy Is Growing. Interestingly, however, for a category of “hate” that is supposedly “growing,” there appears only a single such entity on the Center’s most recent national “Male Supremacy Hate Map.”
That recent article on “male supremacy” was preceded in April of this year by a much longer piece also on the Center’s website, titled Male Supremacy Is At The Core Of The hard Right’s Agenda authored by Cassie Miller. It is this treatise that displays the true motive for the Center’s focus on such an odd topic as “male supremacy” – a vehicle by which to target traditional American culture and those who the SPLC considers to be its supporters; namely, Ron DeSantis (whose picture figures prominently in the opinion piece), Donald Trump, and the Republican Party.
Also featured in Ms. Miller’s screed against masculinity is a photo montage of a traditional American family, consisting of a father, a mother, and two children walking hand-in-hand. That picture appears directly beneath the heading “HATEWATCH,” and it tells you everything you need to know about the true agenda of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
So the one key way to destroy America is to destroy masculinity and destroy the family? To destroy “traditional” American values?
What precisely is masculinity? Stanley Kowalski? Ted Bundy? Ted Kennedy? JFK? The 9/11 hijackers? What precisely is a family? The Bidens, the Kennedys, the Obamas, the Corleones?
To get on an airplane knowing you’re on a suicide mission for God is pretty, damn, masculine but is it rational? To rape and kill women is pretty damn masculine but is it virtue? To be a philanderer like JFK or Trump is masculine, is it admirable? The Nazi soldiers who fought to their death and stomped on the Jews were masculine, they certainly were masculine and heroic by a Nazi definition of those words.
Masculinity divorced from reason and rational values turns masculinity into brutishness and savagery.
A family divorced from rational values turns into a family of Nazis, Jihadists, the Corleones, or the Bidens.
The key to destroying America is to divorce the concept of value from the concept of reason in other words to divorce the concept of value from the facts of reality. In other words to sever the concept of value from the requirements of living as rational, productive, men.
Yeah, like we are going to define American Masculinity from your perspective.
“What precisely is masculinity? Stanley Kowalski? Ted Bundy? Ted Kennedy? JFK? The 9/11 hijackers? What precisely is a family? The Bidens, the Kennedys, the Obamas, the Corleones?”
In both cases you pick the worst examples of masculinity and family. I can only imagine what you consider masculinity and family. By the way, Stanley Kowalski isn’t real.
If I wanted to be a gold fish I would certainly be an objectivist, with all of it’s wimpy pacifist traits. I see you are off your meds today.
Spend some serious time studying this book: www.ditext.com/fearnside/fallacy.html
FALLACY
The Counterfeit of Argument
W. WARD FEARNSIDE
WILLIAM B. HOLTHER
1959
It would be a very good thing if every trick could receive some short and obviously appropriate name, so that when a man used this or that particular trick, he could at once be reproved for it.
—Schopenhauer
In 7 years we have never seen nor heard anything that would even HINT that President Trump is a philanderer. Yet another Bolshevik Communist Big Lie!
They key to destroying America is to become an Objectivist. You seem to be very angry today. Not a lot to say except the usual self-indulgent tripe, and very angry.
And just a ton of downvotes, especially in the lead article. What’s the matter T? No one buying into your religion as usual. What do you think is going to happen when you insult most people.
I do hope the discovery phase leads to some EVIDENCE of their TRUE NATURE! We KNOW their true nature is anti-America / anti-White so having it DOCUMENTED might just go a LONG way to finally rid us of this vile, hate filled organization! This is just MY opinion and not based on concrete EVIDENCE – YET! I hope the lawsuit is successful and is the first whack at knocking down their horrible existence!
The SPLC and the ACLU are just about the same group of far left types who wants to end all forms of Religion from America and replace it with Socialism
And both of the same Bolshevik heritage!
Global Communism…
Morris Dees was a cowboy specializing in cash cows.
Ignorant people considering lying conmen as non contributing parasites fail to appreciate their artistry.
The completeness of Dee’s talent was manifested by the exultation of the fleeced in their moral rectitude at their “accomplishment” in having been fleeced.
Like prospecting for gold, prospecting for suckers has its success completely decided by the search process.
No one can dispute Dee’s record of success. He deserves a statue.
The Dustin Inman Society, headed by the patriot D.A. King, is the antithesis of everything the anti-American Marxist SPLC represents.
D.A. King’s love of this country, its people, our laws and his tireless efforts to preserve our sovereignty is in direct contrast to the SPLC’s long term agenda which is to destroy our country, annihilate our sovereignty and bank “donations” from unsuspecting people and often from like-minded anti-Americans that end up in SPLC’s off-shore accounts. Conversely, D.A. King has opted to forego a salary and off shore accounts and often is forced to reluctantly request donations just so that he can continue to pursue his pro-America agenda.
What has happened to the SPLC, in terms of its degeneracy into an agenda driven parody of itself, IMO parallels what has happened to liberalism in general over the last 50 years. In the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, leaders like M. L. King shamed us for our blatent racism at a time when we were celebrating our moral superiority in defeating Nazi Germany. What the liberalism of the day did was to awaken America’s conscience, to force us to see our own reflection and question our integrity as a free society. Black Americans were Americans, some being third and fourth generation Americans, who could not live where they could afford, could not vote in local elections, could not fairly compete in the job market or grow careers they otherwise were qualified to have. We saw that as just WRONG, and felt it our responsibility to correct it. The SPLC was an outgrowth of that time.
In today’s wack-a-doodle world, drag queens perform for children, and parents who protest are investigated by the FBI. Children are taught to believe that gender is choice. And everybody who is not white or straight is a victim. I could go on, but I think I made my point. CONSCIENCE was what defined the CIvil Rights movement in my youth, but it does not define modern liberalism. I certainly don’t see it in anything the SPLC has done recently.
If there was an actual temporal interval when the SPLC was not a 100 hustle, I am unfamiliar with it,
Think of it as the Suckers’ Paradise Law Center.
The SPLC was a Communist front from the start. It has always ignored enemy organisations & lied about ones useful to our Nation. It is one of many organizations intended to divide & propagandize us. Look at their lists & see for yourself. Don’t be a Communist Dupe or Useful Idiot. Do your Fact Checking & KNOW who is telling you the truth & who is lying their commie butts off.