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WAPO: The SPLC has lost all credibility

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty...
Plum anal church building chad
  06/22/18
Should not be an editorial
Hairraiser copper lodge patrolman
  06/22/18
Funny thing is they have articles that are far more editoria...
bull headed unhinged therapy main people
  06/22/18
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bateful home mad-dog skullcap
  06/22/18
SPLC, ACLU, NAACP = all jokes now Same thing is happenin...
bull headed unhinged therapy main people
  06/22/18
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/us/missouri-naacp-travel-advi...
cerebral house
  06/22/18
until this is front page news with push alerts, it's not goo...
aromatic walnut senate
  06/22/18
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Exciting Dragon Striped Hyena
  06/22/18
You wont win attacking this organization on principal. Yo...
Coral big chapel
  06/22/18
wow link? Last year, an angry mob of students, many citin...
amber box office cuckoldry
  06/22/18
you dont remember that?
aromatic walnut senate
  06/22/18
(implying the splc ever had credibility)
Adulterous swashbuckling plaza
  06/22/18


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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:15 PM
Author: Plum anal church building chad

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-lost-all-credibility/2018/06/21/22ab7d60-756d-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and this week the SPLC agreed to pay him a $3.375 million settlement and issued a public apology.

The SPLC is a once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. But it has become a caricature of itself, labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in line with its left-wing ideology an “extremist” or “hate group.”

Nawaz is a case in point. Since abandoning Islamic radicalism, he has advised three British prime ministers and created the Quilliam Foundation, to fight extremism. He is not anti-Muslim. He is a Muslim and has argued that “Islam is a religion of peace.”

So how did he end up in the SPLC’s pseudo-guide to anti-Muslim bigots? His crime, apparently, is that he has become a leading critic of the radical Islamist ideology he once embraced. Thanks to his courage, the SPLC has been forced to pay a multimillion-dollar penalty and acknowledge in a statement that it was “wrong” and that Nawaz has “made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism.”

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Let’s hope this settlement is the first of many, because this is not the first time the SPLC has done this. In 2010, it placed the Family Research Council (FRC) — a conservative Christian advocacy group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage — on its “hate map.” Two years later, a gunman walked into the FRC headquarters with the intention to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces.” He told the FBI that he had used the SPLC website to pick his target.

Unfortunately, many in the media still take the SPLC seriously. Last year, ABC News ran a story headlined: “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ ” in which it reported that “Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an ‘anti-LGBT hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016.” The Alliance Defending Freedom is a respected organization of conservative lawyers dedicated to defending religious liberty, and it just argued a case before the Supreme Court, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. It won, 7 to 2. It is not a “hate group.” If anything, it is fighting anti-Christian hate.

In 2014, the SPLC placed Ben Carson — later a Republican presidential candidate and now the current secretary of housing and urban development — on its “extremist watch list,” alongside neo-Nazis and white supremacists. After an uproar, the group removed him and apologized.

The SPLC also lists Charles Murray, a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute and one of the most respected conservative intellectuals in the United States, on its website as a “White Nationalist.” Last year, an angry mob of students, many citing the SPLC’s designation, physically attacked Murray during a speech at Middlebury College. He escaped unharmed, but the liberal professor who invited him ended up in the hospital.

Little wonder that Nawaz was not just angry but also afraid about being designated an extremist by the SPLC. He told the Atlantic in 2016, “They put a target on my head. The kind of work that I do, if you tell the wrong kind of Muslims that I’m an extremist, then that means I’m a target.”

Unfortunately, the settlement that the SPLC reached with Nawaz is not likely to deter it from smearing others — $3.4 million is a drop in the bucket for the center, which raised $132 million between November 2016 and October 2017 and has a $477 million endowment, including a reported $92 million in offshore accounts. Sliming conservatives is big business.

The only way to stop the SPLC is if people stop giving it money and the media stop quoting it or taking it seriously. The SPLC once did important work fighting the Ku Klux Klan. But when it declares Maajid Nawaz, the Family Research Council, Ben Carson and Charles Murray as moral equivalents of the Klan, it loses all integrity and credibility.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292790)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: Hairraiser copper lodge patrolman

Should not be an editorial

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292799)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:25 PM
Author: bull headed unhinged therapy main people

Funny thing is they have articles that are far more editorialized than this that they label news. But they only involve Trump

See, e.g.:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/02/as-news-of-trumps-taxes-broke-he-goes-off-script-at-a-rally-in-pennsylvania/

MANHEIM, Pa. — Donald Trump's campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. It was an attempt to latch onto a new headline in hopes of finally escaping the controversies that had consumed his week.

It didn't work.

It took Trump nearly 25 minutes to read the brief statement because he kept going off on one angry tangent after another — ignoring his teleprompters and accusing Clinton of not being "loyal" to her husband, imitating her buckling at a memorial service last month, suggesting that she is "crazy" and saying she should be in prison. He urged his mostly white crowd of supporters to go to polling places in "certain areas" on Election Day to "watch" the voters there. He also repeatedly complained about having a "bum mic" at the first presidential debate and wondered if he should have done another season of "The Apprentice."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292839)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: bateful home mad-dog skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292802)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: bull headed unhinged therapy main people

SPLC, ACLU, NAACP = all jokes now

Same thing is happening with prestigious awards: Macarthur, Rhodes, Pulitzer, Nobel, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292814)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:29 PM
Author: cerebral house

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/us/missouri-naacp-travel-advisory/index.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292873)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: aromatic walnut senate

until this is front page news with push alerts, it's not good enough

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292821)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:25 PM
Author: Exciting Dragon Striped Hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292838)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:26 PM
Author: Coral big chapel

You wont win attacking this organization on principal.

You have to show people the money trail. Show the public how they spend their massive contributions - on lavish salaries for sycophants and the leadership.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292854)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:30 PM
Author: amber box office cuckoldry

wow link?

Last year, an angry mob of students, many citing the SPLC’s designation, physically attacked Murray during a speech at Middlebury College. He escaped unharmed, but the liberal professor who invited him ended up in the hospital.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292887)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:32 PM
Author: aromatic walnut senate

you dont remember that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292895)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:36 PM
Author: Adulterous swashbuckling plaza

(implying the splc ever had credibility)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008282&forum_id=2#36292915)