SPLC is About Destroying Its Targets

For John, BLUF:  Once you are identified you are going to suffer.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Southern Poverty Law Center: ‘Our Aim in Life Is to Destroy These Groups, Completely’

This is from Pajama Media by Blogger Tyler O'Neil, 1 September 2017.

Here are the pertinent paragraphs:

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has gained traction in recent weeks, but contrary to media reports, the group does not exist to "monitor hate groups" but to destroy groups that it targets for "strictly ideological" reasons.  In light of large donations from Apple, J.P. Morgan, and George Clooney, and CNN's favorable coverage of the SPLC, Americans should learn the real motivations behind this far-left organization.

In the words of SPLC former spokesman Mark Potok (who spent 20 years as a senior fellow at the SPLC and only retired this year, according to LinkedIn), the group does not exist to monitor hate groups.

"Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them," Potok declared at an event in Michigan in 2007.

And, they get to decide who is a "hate group."  Sometimes they protect one side of an argument against another side.  See, for example, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  As you may recall, the person she was collaborating with on a film on Islam, in the Netherlands, Theo van Gogh, was brutally murdered on the streets of Amsterdam.  The murderer, Mohammed Bouyeri, left a note on the body, pinned by a knife, threatening Ms Ali with death.  But, to SPLC, Ms Ali is the bad person, the hateful person, the oppressor.  Go figure.

So, who are the haters?

And why can't the ACLU see it?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff