Hate Studies Experts Won’t Comment on Allegations SPLC Funded the KKK
“If true, the purchase of items used to advance racial protests and events might be inconsistent with SPLC’s purported charitable purpose.”
This is such a huge scandal, and it’s not getting nearly the level of attention that it deserves. Professor Jacobson is quoted in this piece.
From the College Fix:
Hate studies experts won’t comment on allegations Southern Poverty Law Center funded KKK
Experts on “hate” and “extremism” have ignored numerous requests to comment on allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center funded informants who used money to buy Ku Klux Klan hoods and cross-burning materials.
A federal indictment alleges that more than $4 million in donor funds went to pay confidential informants within extremist groups. The latest indictment alleges some money was used for “recruiting new members and purchasing materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods,” according to CBS News.
The College Fix contacted seven university centers that study hate and extremism and asked for a reaction to the indictment, the ethics of funding Klan materials, and best practices for monitoring extremism.
None of the groups responded to emails and phone calls in the past several weeks including the University of California Los Angeles’ Initiative to Study Hate, California State University – San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, Gonzaga’s Journal of Hate Studies and Center for the Study of Hate, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Applied Research on Targeted Violence, and George Washington University’s Program of Extremism.
Both Bard’s Center for the Study of Hate and American University’s Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab declined to comment…
The founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation likewise said the allegations raise questions about the organization’s use of charitable donations.
“The Superseding Indictment alleges a series of questionable purchases by SPLC,” William Jacobson told The Fix. “If true, the purchase of items used to advance racial protests and events might be inconsistent with SPLC’s purported charitable purpose.”
Jacobson’s website, Legal Insurrection, has been writing about Southern Poverty Law Center tactics since 2009.
The Cornell Law School professor cautioned, however, that “context is important.” He thinks the SPLC will be using that as part of their defense.
Jacobson said he has been concerned for more than 15 years that the organization “has centered around potentially deceptive advertising and solicitations, based on a very aggressive listing of supposed hate groups by SPLC in its hate maps.”
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“The College Fix contacted seven university centers that study hate and extremism”
Full stop right there.
Aren’t there conservative organizations that study hate and extremism?
Yes, but they’re considered hate groups and extremists by the Left.
If you look at the focus of the groups contacted by the College Fix, there tends to be a consistent angle. While they may acknowledge anti-Semitism, Islamism, and jihad as an issue, their real focus is on “white supremacists,” militias, active duty military, veterans, the ‘J6 siege against democracy,’ homophobia, religious intolerance, ethnic violence, anti-immigrant animus etc.
Basically they deem extremism and hate as any opposition to Woke privilege groups, any group that opposes Woke interest is either a hate group or an extremist group, or both, and any group that hates the non-Woke is fine, so anti-White, anti-Conservative, anti-Christian, anti-American etc extremism and violence is largely discounted as justified and not thus worth studying.
William Jacobson: “If true….. might be… .” Very, very weak. Stop hedging against that legal scum SPLC. You know better. The evidence has been disclosed. The conclusion is obvious. Say it. The SPLC funded hate groups and broke the law governing charitable institutions.
Needs to be proven unequivocally else it’s defamatory, or is that libellous? I always confuse the two!
As a law expert the good professor will know to watch what he says. If SPLC beat the charges then they’d likely sue him and seek to eliminate Legal Insurrection etc.
If they can make the truth illegal, then only Woke lies will be published. It’s close to that now, but there are still a few places that get the facts out.