The WSJ takes a hard look at the Southern Poverty Law Center

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The WSJ takes a hard look at the Southern Poverty Law Center

Posted: 6/22/2017 11:37:55 AM EDT

It's about time. There's a strong argument in there for them to lose their tax exempt status. If a non-partisan IRS could revoke the tax free status that leftist hate groups enjoy, then that would be a good step towards diminishing the power they have.

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Although the SPLC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and therefore statutorily prohibited from engaging in partisan politics, even a cursory review of its website belies its nonpartisan status. During the 2016 election, the SPLC posted “Margins to the Mainstream: Extremists Have Influenced the GOP 2016 Policy Platform” and “Here Are the Extremist Groups Planning to Attend the RNC in Cleveland.” The Democratic platform and convention received no such scrutiny.

The SPLC reflexively plays down threats from the left. This February Mr. Potok wrote that in the 1990s “the American radical right” was “deprived of the bogeyman of communism.” Even when condemning far-left groups, the SPLC shows an odd deference. Describing black separatists, the SPLC avers that “much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism,” and “the racism of a group like the Nation [of Islam] may be relatively easy to understand.”

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Posted: 6/22/2017 11:39:13 AM EDT

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Somebody NEEDS to take a good look at the SPLC

Posted: 6/22/2017 11:40:55 AM EDT

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But they're useful to the globalist agenda.

Posted: 6/22/2017 11:47:04 AM EDT

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That'll never happen.

Posted: 6/22/2017 11:55:09 AM EDT

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Antifa loves to cite their info

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:05:27 PM EDT

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Lol non Profits are the major drivers of progressive propaganda.

SPLC being one of them.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:06:29 PM EDT

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They are tax exempt? That's hilarious.

The SPLC is a hate group with radical racist anti-Caucasian incitement.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:10:47 PM EDT

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The ADL is just as bad.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:42:59 PM EDT

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WSJ probably going to be on SPLC right-wing hate group list now...

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:49:47 PM EDT

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You should see the founders poverty accommodations with 24 hour armed security and video surveillance.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:53:03 PM EDT

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That's a good point, they're partisan as fuck.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:53:27 PM EDT

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They are tax exempt? That's hilarious.

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I didn't know they had exempt status. I just thought they were some crazy lefty organization that tried to make itself sound like some official agency... Now I'm pissed.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:54:59 PM EDT

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The local newspaper cites them as proof of "local hate groups"

All I could find on one is that someone put up a free webpage for "sometown in NY klan" or something. I couldn't find any proof that there had been any meeting, that the alleged group even existed. I could throw up a website and claim it was the "The North Nashville Black Hater's League"

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:56:16 PM EDT

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They are tax exempt? That's hilarious.

The SPLC is a hate group with radical racist anti-Caucasian incitement.

I didn't know they had exempt status. I just thought they were some crazy lefty organization that tried to make itself sound like some official agency... Now I'm pissed.

There's been unfair tax exemptions for leftists for a long time

Your local church can't dare talk politics

.... But an inner city ghetto church can talk politics all day long.....

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:57:33 PM EDT

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It will take someone with DJT's stature to spearhead to revoke their tax exempt status, most people need their day jobs.

Posted: 6/22/2017 12:59:57 PM EDT

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Morris Dees is a POS and the SPLC is a partisan left leaning hate group.

Posted: 6/22/2017 1:11:14 PM EDT

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The SPLC , and Dee's are carpetbaggers of the worst kind. They should lose tax status and be broken up under the RICO laws.

Posted: 6/22/2017 1:40:15 PM EDT

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I was forced to take a LEO class from him a few years back.

It was bullshit . Patently obvious bullshit at that.

He made it pretty clear he would classify all white police as a terrorist group.

He has kind of a bizarre personality. Cross between a huckster and a true believer.

Posted: 6/22/2017 2:01:53 PM EDT

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Anything even slightly right is a hate filled according to them.

Posted: 6/22/2017 3:22:51 PM EDT

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They're a non-profit organization. The left and their friends in the Dem party use the tax laws regarding non-profits to their advantage in big time ways. The tax laws need to be changed to defund this short of crap because it's a major money-maker for the Dems.

Posted: 6/22/2017 3:31:49 PM EDT

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S. P. L. C. Is a hate group. Has been for years. Should be recognized as such.

Posted: 6/22/2017 3:41:05 PM EDT

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The local newspaper cites them as proof of "local hate groups"

All I could find on one is that someone put up a free webpage for "sometown in NY klan" or something. I couldn't find any proof that there had been any meeting, that the alleged group even existed. I could throw up a website and claim it was the "The North Nashville Black Hater's League"

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All Hail the N.N.B.H.L.!!!

(BTW, not a very good acronym, too close to NHL

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