The Southern Poverty Law Center raises money by presenting itself as the expert on combating “hate,” and then exaggerating “hate” to scare donors into ponying up cash.
The problem? The SPLC’s inflated demand for “hate” has long outstripped the supply. Thousands of donors expect the SPLC to prove there’s enough “hate” to justify their donations, and that often leaves the center scrambling to keep up.
A jaw-dropping Justice Department indictment, filed Tuesday, appears to reveal yet another way the SPLC tried to meet this demand.
The SPLC has a clearinghouse for hate, a “hate map” that claims to reveal the “infrastructure of white supremacy.”
The SPLC map has included old shopkeepers in the South who still support the Confederacy, but most Americans know people like that are irrelevant.
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F-30 wasn’t the only one. F-31 & F-32, KKK members, wanted out in 2010.
The SPLC bribed them to stay in the movement. These Fs used the $ to attend extremist rallies and to gain a leadership role.
SPLC reimbursed them for cross-burning materials.
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F-37, a member of the leadership chat for the Charlottesville rally in 2017, made racist posts under an SPLC employee’s supervision and arranged transport for others to attend the rally. SPLC paid this person $300K.
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Read this thread. I gave a possible identity to the SPLC plant in Charlottesville – and it’s someone who was central to organizing Unite the Right, and also talked about running over protesters before the rally.
I’m pretty sure I nailed it. There’s no one else in those transcripts who fits, especially after today’s revelations.
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Yet the field sources used the SPLC’s $ to:
1⃣Attend extremist rallies
2⃣Host rallies
3⃣Grow existing chapters
4⃣Create new chapters
5⃣Recruit individuals
6⃣Donate to extremist leaders
7⃣Purchase cross-burning material
8⃣Create racist paraphernalia
9⃣Pay living expenses
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Superseding Indictment Alleges SPLC Funded “Ku Klux Klan garments” and “Cross-Burning Events”
Asserts wide-ranging wire and bank fraud “to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid” to extremist group members SPLC supposedly was fighting.
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