From Jeff Bezos Blog

Taki’s Magazine has a good article about the SLPC. It summarizes what has been known for a long time. The founder of the SLPC, Morris Dees, was mainly interested in… getting rich. And he did.

To ensure that there will be donors against hate. you have to make sure there are plenty of hate groups. Of the right in the case of the SLPC: for they have always been of the left.

He also became deeply interested in the money side of leftist politics. The initial donor list of the SPLC consisted of those who had contributed to McGovern’s political campaign, because Dees ran that campaign’s direct mail operation and had requested the mailing list as his fee. The Southern-born Dees knew that many of the northern liberals on McGovern’s donor list would get a vicarious thrill from sending a check to the Alabama-based SPLC to fight the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists.

If appealing to some of these rather naive donors meant tarring other Southerners as racist, bigoted hicks, so be it. Dees also raised money for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and wanted to be attorney general, but he and Carter’s people had a falling out. After Carter left office, spokesman Jody Powell made no bones about his disgust with Dees and the use of appeals in SPLC mailings that were intentionally designed to play up to the stereotypes “ignorant Yankee contributors” had about Southerners.

It should also be noted that Millard Fuller took a different course from his erstwhile partner’s. After he sold out to Dees, Fuller donated the money to charity and went on to found Habitat for Humanity. As contributions to the SPLC kept increasing, so did Dees’ salary. Within two decades, he was among the most highly compensated of the heads of advocacy groups, earning much more than the heads of more widely known organizations such as the ACLU, the Children’s Defense Fund, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. That something was seriously rotten at SPLC was noted along with the increases in Dees’ salary. While the SPLC promoted its pursuit of lawsuits related to civil rights, especially those challenging the imposition of the death penalty on black offenders, fundraising was pursued even more fervently. By 1989, an ecumenical guide to charitable giving described the mission of the SPLC as “the aggressive distribution of junk mail, soliciting funds for more junk mail.”

Well, the propaganda is starting to not work. Scott notes in Facebook… Having had the SLPC ‘hate group list’ quoted as authoritative to him on many occasions.

I had not really put two and two together on the conspicuous acronym similarities between the SPLC and other “ant-racist” advocacy groups coming out of the civil rights south.

Makes a lot of gullible donors think they are contributing to some age-old monolith that has fighting “poverty” and “racism” in the “south” for years. Clever.

In fact, I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I, too, believed the SPLC was once a great fighting force for “the cause” that had just gone looney as the last of the real boogeymen fell and they tried to justify their existence.

But apparently, the SPLC has always been a sham. It drives me crazy that they have a semi-official standing as the DODs go-to organization for learning about what “hate” is.

The SLPC was not a great force. The civil rights movement won because the Democrats wanted them to. Well before 1972, when the SLPC was founded. What it has done is extract cash from useful idiots, and be a model on how to build a social justice trust fund.

And it is now tired, old, dying, and standing naked as the tide recedes from the progressive movement.

I expect them to double down. But it won’t matter: they have shown they lack judgement and they have lost the amenable authorities they can appeal to. We are seeing the end game for the converged here: other organisations, such as CORSO, Amnresty International, and the Red Cross have followed.

When you see a leader getting rich, be suspicious. And do not be them. or like them.