Does anyone still believe the Southern Poverty Law Center is legitimate?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a group that occasionally makes the news, usually as a source of information for what it calls ‘hate’ groups. This disparaging word is something the SPLC throws around cavalierly against any group whose viewpoints it is in opposition to.

The media, along with some enforcement agencies, see the SPLC as a source on groups that they simply are too lazy to investigate themselves. As a result, much of what they report is often biased by the tunnelvision that the SPLC employs. And this is where the problem arises, as it often results in legal prosecution that is unjustified on its own merits. It is therefore incumbent upon us to put the SPLC in proper perspective as one could argue that it was the SPLC that was the forerunner of the political correctness that now dominates American politics.



 
The term "hate group" isn't very specific.

There aren't any groups with which I'm familiar who don't hate someone or something.
 
Even the liberal activist ADA will tell you the SPLc are not what they seem. Those two have been at odds for years because the SPLC named the ADA a hate group because they oppose Communism and Fascism. If those here are not familiar with the ADA are the liberal group started by Eleonore Roosevelt and others.
 
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Morris Dees and the SPLC essentially put the Ku Klux Klan out of business by bankrupting them. They won a civil judgment in court for the death of a black man when his mother sued the Klan with the SPLC's help.
On March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and lynched by James Knowles and Henry Francis Hays, members of the United Klans of America—an Alabama faction of the KKK, and (at the time) one of the organization's largest, and most violent, groups.​
In many ways, the brutal attack on Donald was the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the week leading up to his murder, Mobile had become a hotbed of Klan activity due to the trial of Josephus Anderson, a Black man accused of killing a white police officer during an armed robbery in nearby Birmingham. Though the jury was still in deliberations at the time of Donald's murder, the fact that some of the jury members on Anderson's trial were Black didn't sit well with the KKK. Earlier in the week, according to one of his fellow Klansmen, Hays—worried that Anderson would be allowed to walk free—had even stated that, "If a Black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a Black man." And with that, a plan was set in motion.​
It was late at night and Donald was walking home when he crossed paths with Knowles and Hays, who were on the hunt for a victim. They ordered Donald into their vehicle and proceeded to carry out an extremely brutal, and hours-long attack on the teen. It ended with Hays and Knowles hanging Donald's body from a tree on Herndon Avenue, just across the street from Hays's home. But it wasn't the end of Donald's story.​
The People v. The Klan, a four-part CNN Original Series produced by Blumhouse Television, tells the courageous story of Michael's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, who would stop at nothing to get justice for the senseless killing of her son. Here are 10 facts about the woman behind the bravery.​

This is what I will always remember them for.
 
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Morris Dees and the SPLC essentially put the Ku Klux Klan out of business by bankrupting them. The won a civil judgment in court for the death of a black man when his mother sued the Klan with the SPLC's help.


This is what I will always remember them for.
SPLC also won justice for Vietnamese fishermen who were threatened by bigots who even burned their boats. They also put the clamps on the Aryan Nations, a vicious white supremacist group who terrorized the Pacific Northwest. Morris Dees just goes overboard some times.
 
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a group that occasionally makes the news, usually as a source of information for what it calls ‘hate’ groups. This disparaging word is something the SPLC throws around cavalierly against any group whose viewpoints it is in opposition to.

The media, along with some enforcement agencies, see the SPLC as a source on groups that they simply are too lazy to investigate themselves. As a result, much of what they report is often biased by the tunnelvision that the SPLC employs. And this is where the problem arises, as it often results in legal prosecution that is unjustified on its own merits. It is therefore incumbent upon us to put the SPLC in proper perspective as one could argue that it was the SPLC that was the forerunner of the political correctness that now dominates American politics.



Yes. They focus on civil rights.
 
I remember the NFL football player he had stalmped on the back of his helmet......'he hate me'.....at the time i had no idea about the politics of hate.

That was a time when the poliics of hate meant using or trying to use hate to promote a political agenda.

Now the msm promotes the idea that only white folks hate;
 
We could have told you they have been corrupted just like the ACLU

we can not tell you enough all those leftist controlled entitites you thought you could dtrust as your sources are anything but honest.

ACLU lies
RED CROSS lies
you can not trust these organizations or ppl NONE OF THEM.
 

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