The SPLC and CAIR are pressuring donor-advised funds to blacklist conservative and Christian "hate groups" in an attempt to defund their political opponents. DAFs had $121 billion in 2018. /1 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
In calling for this blacklisting, the report praises #ChangeTheTerms, a coalition of Soros-funded groups that pressure #BigTech to silence conservatives on the SPLC "hate group" list. /2 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
The entire report is very circular. In addition to citing Change the Terms, it cites a CAIR report from last year, urging philanthropic groups to blacklist "anti-Muslim hate groups," citing — once again — the SPLC "hate group" list. /3 pjmedia.com/trending/anti-…
The SPLC/CAIR report also cites Amalgamated Bank's "Hate Is Not Charitable" campaign, which is — sorry if I'm sounding like a broken record here — an attempt to blacklist SPLC-accused "hate groups." /4 pjmedia.com/trending/25-do…
Urging donor-advised funds to blacklist these groups is a huge deal. DAFs represent a huge chunk of philanthropy in America today, and they allow donors some degree of anonymity with their giving. Leftists like to demonize donors to conservative groups, as @AFPhq knows well. /6
The SPLC "hate group" list is also notoriously corrupt and unreliable. Former employees have called it a "scam" because it exaggerates hate and is intended to destroy political opponents. A huge chunk of my book, #MakingHatePay, focuses on this. /7
To its credit(?), the report acknowledges that blacklisting falsely-accused "hate groups" might seem "controversial," but it claims this is important for "public safety," which is ironic since the SPLC "hate map" inspired an attempted terrorist attack in 2012. /8
The SPLC routinely peppers reports like this w/ references to white supremacist terror, the El Paso shooter (a radical environmentalist as well), and white supremacist groups, giving the impression that "hate group" has KKK connotations, which it does. /9 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
Yet the SPLC routinely argues in court that its "hate group" accusation is mere meaningless opinion. This report, like so many others, gives the lie to that claim — they cite the number of "hate groups" as a statistically significant measure for white supremacy. /10
It is important to note that this report praises iTunes, PayPal, and AmazonSmile for taking "measures to screen out hate from their platforms." What does this mean? These #BigTech firms have allowed themselves to be weaponized by the SPLC. /11 pjmedia.com/trending/its-b…
Make no mistake: the SPLC is an engine of defamation, fundraising, and political warfare. It aims to destroy the reputations of conservative and Christian groups, even going after their funding, while making wads of cash by exaggerating hate. /12
Donor-advised funds that are tempted to take this report seriously should check out my book, #MakingHatePay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Don't become a tool for the SPLC to further bilk its donors, defame law-abiding Americans, and worsen polarization. /13
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The Justice Department just released its report on eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government, and it shows that the Biden administration was worse than we knew.
“The Biden admin generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith,” the report states.
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1⃣ANTI-CHRISTIAN ENFORCEMENT
The Biden DOJ targeted pro-lifers, FBI cited the SPLC to go after Catholics, IRS denied a church tax-exempt status for "Republican" beliefs, and the Department of Education brought hefty fines against Christian colleges.
In 2020 I published "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center." My basic thesis: SPLC raised money by fighting the Klan, but ran out of grand dragons to slay. So it juices the numbers to exaggerate "hate."
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The SPLC publishes a "hate map" & exaggerates hate 3 ways:
1⃣Highlighting groups that barely exist
2⃣Listing different chapters as a different "hate group"
3⃣Including mainstream conservative and Christian groups, suggesting they're a threat like the KKK once was.
Michigan Sec of State Jocelyn Benson was on the SPLC board when it was funding white nationalists. She’s touted her history with SPLC while running for governor. I asked her campaign for comment: no response.
According to the DOJ, SPLC sent $3M to KKK members, neo-Nazis, a Charlottesville “Unite the Right” organizer, and more. SPLC didn’t deny this-it claimed these people were “informants,” helping SPLC foil violent plots.
While the KKK firebombed the SPLC’s offices in 1983, the indictment covers 2014-2023. During that time, SPLC exaggerated hate by putting mainstream conservatives and Christians on a “hate map” with Klan chapters.
Multiple race-based scholarships have disappeared from the American Medical Association Foundation's website after @donoharm sent a letter to the IRS warning about potential racial discrimination.
“The AMA Foundation appears to have removed the discriminatory scholarships at the heart of our IRS complaint—a tacit admission that our concerns were warranted,” Do No Harm Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told me.
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Most scholarships are still on the website, but the ones Do No Harm flagged have disappeared.
The Association of Black Cardiologists Scholarship is now gone.
The DOJ indictment doesn't just reveal that the SPLC was paying a Charlottesville organizer—it helps flip the Left's whole narrative about the "Unite the Right" rally.
We now know that the SPLC paid one of the Charlottesville organizers $270K between 2015 and 2023, that they allegedly supervised this person's "racist postings" and helped coordinate transportation for white nationalists😲 That's new.
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But before the rally, the SPLC also arguably enflamed passions and sparked white nationalists by releasing a map with every Confederate monument across the U.S.—including schools and military bases named after Confederates.
In 2020, I wrote "Making Hate Pay" about the SPLC's corruption. I knew they scammed donors by inflating "hate," and I suspected they were planting racists...
Now @FBIDirectorKash and @DAGToddBlanche confirmed my suspicions.
As I testified before @JudiciaryGOP last year, the SPLC publishes a "hate map" that it claims reveals the "infrastructure of white supremacy" in America.
The hate map includes:
1⃣ random people with no impact
2⃣mainstream conservatives
3⃣people on SPLC payroll.
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I've been analyzing this hate map for years, noting that the SPLC pads the numbers, partly by including groups for no reason other than their disagreement with the SPLC's hard-left agenda, and partly by listing every single chapter of an org as a "hate group."