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From The Daily Beast:
Southern Poverty Law Center Loses Intel-Gathering Boss
It’s the latest move in an ongoing shakeup at the anti-hate organization that began when a cofounder left under a cloud.
Kelly Weill, Reporter Updated 10.28.19
The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project is stepping down amid an ongoing leadership shakeup at the anti-hate organization.
Heidi Beirich will leave the SPLC, ending a 20-year run with the organization, she told staffers Monday. Her exit follows several resignations and terminations of SPLC leadership this year—including its cofounder, who was fired amid sexual harassment allegations, and a deputy legal director who said the organization had “more work to do” to guarantee a respectful workplace.
Beirich has worked for the SPLC for 20 years. An expert on the neo-Confederate movement, she led the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, which produced much of the center’s front-facing journalism including its Intelligence Report magazine and Hatewatch blog. …
But the SPLC has been undergoing institutional upheaval since March, when the center fired cofounder Morris Dees….
Beirich was among those who supported Dees’ ouster, multiple people familiar with the organization told The Daily Beast.
… SPLC President Richard Cohen resigned the following week “in order to give the organization the best chance to heal.”
Other March resignations included SPLC legal director Rhonda Brownstein and deputy legal director Meredith Horton.
No matter how incompetent their replacements are, the SPLC will be quoted like it knows what it’s talking about.
Only one POC on the Board,but he’s the chairman. Others are Jews and Goodwhites.
Maybe Heidi was helping herself to some of that anti-hate money?
Why aren’t these anti-hate organizations bringing to light of how mass immigration led to the ‘genocide’ of the Indians? Immigration is neo-genocidalism.
When one group outcompetes another that's a crime worthy of genocide, as we all know.
Where will they ever find an equally attractive and charismatic spokescow to replace her?
http://cdn.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/heidi-beirich-splc.jpg
Always wonder how this works.
I’m pretty good at “hate”. Can i get my hands on some of that $400 million?
Seems like the best method to fight against these enemy institutions would be to figure out a way to exploit internal politics. Especially in nonprofits, these places tend to be full of resentment and constant struggles for petty power.
Everywhere.
The disgraced former-SPLC bigwigs remind me of the Starnes siblings from Atlas Shrugged.
Morris Dees = Gerald Starnes, the cynical scammer enjoying the high life.
Heidi Beirich = Ivy Starnes, the grim she-commissar, determined to make others as miserable as herself.
Mark Potock = Eric Starnes, the unlovable weirdo.
Yep.
Everywhere.
Neo-confederate, huh?
https://comb.io/crUSog
Lawrence Auster posted an email exchange he had with Heidi at View From the Right.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011405.html
She liked him, she really liked him. You could just tell.
Her work-tivism has been pretty similar, from her PhD program to present. She did left-wing political science at Purdue, ca. 1992 to 1998, before being hired by the SPLC.
Before that, 1980s / early 1990s, we see from her choice of majors (BA: Developmental Studies, MA: Economics) that she was conflicted on what she wanted to do — follow in her accountant father’s footsteps, or go for an activist life. The latter won out.
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Heidi-Beirich.png
- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
For at least since the 1990s, econ masters is usually a profit-center vanity degree for Americans too dumb for a PhD program or foreigners (brazilians and south koreans are big sources) who intend on returning home to be a bureaucrat.
Very little in the standard curriculum is directly relevant to accounting, probably just the financial economics electives dealing with valuation of financial instruments.
But micro, macro, econometrics, econ history, and IO is all quite far afield from accounting.
$25 million was to construct their brutalist crapsterpiece Poverty Palace HQ.
Actual charities in deindustrialized middle America are frequently able to buy perfectly nice office buildings for $20 a square foot and less. Buy, not rent.
This 74,000 sq ft office building in Birmingham is for sale at $800,000, under $11 a square foot. And I bet they’d take 750,000.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/65-Bagby-Dr-Birmingham-AL/7279695/
Here’s a nice looking 41,000 SF office tower in Albany Georgia for $1.1 mil.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/100-102-N-Washington-St-Albany-GA/17031654/
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fkBrovBuy9U/U8YgwzX1xFI/AAAAAAABDaY/rBqWZbmMVA8/s1600/Longaberger+Basket+Building,+Newark,+Ohio.jpg
Life profile and origin story:
Heidi Beirich
“Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy.” (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
– Family origins: Heidi Beirich’s father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell’s father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi’s mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the ‘Ruhrpott’ that had occurred since.
– 1961: Heidi’s parents marry, after having “met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army” (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or ’61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
– Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi’s father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
– 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the “ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies” (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
– June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
– 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
– 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
– 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with “white nationalism and neo-fascism;”
– 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC’s Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
– 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to ‘deplatform’ political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
– 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
– 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
– Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIF1VVIUUAAkvkk.png
-- but the host, CIS, blocks hotlinking.
(CIS, which profiled Beirich in Aug. 2018: "SPLC's Heidi Beirich: A Character Assassin Under the Banner of 'Peace, Respect, and Understanding'.")
I do believe it is one of the most flattering pictures ever taken of Miss Beirich.Replies: @Stan Adams, @GavinCato
“ MA: Economics”
For at least since the 1990s, econ masters is usually a profit-center vanity degree for Americans too dumb for a PhD program or foreigners (brazilians and south koreans are big sources) who intend on returning home to be a bureaucrat.
Very little in the standard curriculum is directly relevant to accounting, probably just the financial economics electives dealing with valuation of financial instruments.
But micro, macro, econometrics, econ history, and IO is all quite far afield from accounting.
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Heidi-Beirich.png
- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
I would have lost that bet.
Does anyone have a good summary of who is taking over after all of these purges? Is this all just about looting the (considerable) assets?
Actual charities in deindustrialized middle America are frequently able to buy perfectly nice office buildings for $20 a square foot and less. Buy, not rent.
This 74,000 sq ft office building in Birmingham is for sale at $800,000, under $11 a square foot. And I bet they’d take 750,000.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/65-Bagby-Dr-Birmingham-AL/7279695/
Here’s a nice looking 41,000 SF office tower in Albany Georgia for $1.1 mil.
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/100-102-N-Washington-St-Albany-GA/17031654/Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Or they could have bought this building in Ohio for $1.2 million and put their “basket of deplorables” in it:
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Heidi-Beirich.png
- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
I take it that she’s never been sexually harassed.
It would be ironic if incompetent minorities took over the SPLC and ran the organization into the ground.
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Heidi-Beirich.png
- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
Note, the first pic was supposed to be this:
— but the host, CIS, blocks hotlinking.
(CIS, which profiled Beirich in Aug. 2018: “SPLC’s Heidi Beirich: A Character Assassin Under the Banner of ‘Peace, Respect, and Understanding’.”)
I do believe it is one of the most flattering pictures ever taken of Miss Beirich.
This one makes her look like a wannabe MILF.
On the plus side, her gums are nice and pink.Replies: @Pericles
Beirich and Potok were both highly visible, on all the wonk shows, and that may have been part of their determination to spend more time with their families. Will the replacements be on TV as often?
I'm pretty good at "hate". Can i get my hands on some of that $400 million?Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Count me in to help!
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Heidi-Beirich.png
- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
I didn’t know Betty Friedan had a daughter!
From following their job postings, it seems like they are shifting key jobs from Montgomery to Atlanta. Obviously easier to draw talent there because, well Montgomery is a REALLY black city whereas Atlanta has some really gentrified areas where you can get artisan local foods and so forth.
Other noteworthy takeaway from this organization that battles with dangerous hate groups is this little admission in the job descriptions:
Because, if there really were thousands of dangerous hate groups in America, being the deputy intelligence director of an organization exposing them would be totally safe.
For now.Replies: @Couch scientist
You gave her teh sadz:
Nothing says “poverty law in the South” like teenage lesbians in suburban Minneapolis. I wonder how much influence Miss Bivalve had on taking that case.
https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/doe-et-al-v-anoka-hennepin-school-district-no-11-et-al
Other noteworthy takeaway from this organization that battles with dangerous hate groups is this little admission in the job descriptions:Because, if there really were thousands of dangerous hate groups in America, being the deputy intelligence director of an organization exposing them would be totally safe.Replies: @Anonymous
There aren’t, and so they are.
For now.
For now.Replies: @Couch scientist
And I’m glad it’s that way. It is clearly a make believe thing they are doing as they expose “HATE”.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011405.htmlReplies: @Kylie, @Hail, @Dan Hayes
Ah, yes, we always enjoyed having a hearty but essentially innocuous laugh at his gal, Heidi Beria, and her persistent but utterly charmless advances to him.
She liked him, she really liked him. You could just tell.
Calling the SLP an “anti-hate organization”, in print, is about a clear a signal as exists today to accurately identify the offending media outlet part of a cooperative propaganda network. Its the rote regurgitation of propaganda, written by the SLP itself, that no one with a political pulse on either side of the isle agrees with.
Try looking up "soros evil" on different search engines. Ask dot com is especially interesting.
Correction: Heidi Beirich graduated from Vista High School in northern San Diego County. This from her own mouth in an ABC News interview she gave for a program called “Uncomfortable,” dated May 16, 2017.
She was in Palm Springs from her birth to the 1981-1982 school year.
The family must have moved a little ways south from Palm Springs to Vista in about 1982, possibly associated with Heidi’s father’s job. He would have been nearing age 50, presumably near or at the top of his long and successful career in the accounting business in California. Maybe they opened a branch office in or near Vista, to which he relocated in 1982.
In any case, this puts Beirich in San Diego County ca. 1982 to mid 1985, after which she was at Berkeley (fall 1985 to spring 1989?), at least when the semester was on. Beirich’s telling of her own origin story is that the years she spent in Vista, California (1982 to 1985, and maybe semester breaks for some years thereafter), were critical in her political awakening on the extreme, pressing dangers of right-wing conservatism, Christian fascism, Skinheadism, and garden-variety white racial terrorism in America.
I’ve transcribed the relevant portion of the interview, here:
Did you catch that? Heidi Beirich was on the swim team. Who’d have thunk it!
The interviewer later calls her degree “your PhD in Fascism.” Beirich says she was first hired as an SPLC Intelligence Report intern in 1999, control of which she inherited twelve years later.
Finally, while I don’t doubt that Metzger’s group was of some importance to Heidi’s then-forming political consciousness as a teenager, I would note her timeline is off:
She told the interviewer, “[W]hen I was in high school, this lawsuit was going on,” referring to the SPLC’s lawsuit over the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant. But the murder of the Ethiopian immigrant happened in Nov. 1988, by which time she was in her final year at Berkeley, and 3.5 years after her high school graduation back in Vista. She mixed up her own political-awakening timeline a bit.
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-- but the host, CIS, blocks hotlinking.
(CIS, which profiled Beirich in Aug. 2018: "SPLC's Heidi Beirich: A Character Assassin Under the Banner of 'Peace, Respect, and Understanding'.")
I do believe it is one of the most flattering pictures ever taken of Miss Beirich.Replies: @Stan Adams, @GavinCato
The first picture is more flattering. It makes her look depressed and worn down, giving her an aura of tragic dignity.
This one makes her look like a wannabe MILF.
On the plus side, her gums are nice and pink.
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Heidi Beirich, same interview, on the Southern California she knew in the 1970s/1980s:
And since 1958 every high school history book in California public high schools was full of McCarthy was a Nazi persecutor of liberals and anti free speech, the Hollywood Ten Martyrs Roosevelt was a combination of fairy godmother and Jesus, evil isolationist Lindbergh and others in the 1930s, the holy crusade against evil Nazis evil southerners lynching blacks and evil segregation MLK and black worship, the entire liberal brainwashing of the public schools.Replies: @Hail
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011405.htmlReplies: @Kylie, @Hail, @Dan Hayes
Van Wijk, in email to Lawrence Auster on Beirich at the time, wrote:
Bold added.
@Heidi Beirich: Consider using your new-found freedom to get this book finally written and published.
Because 400 years ago the ancestors of the victims of the neogenocide committed the horrible crime of immigration. And then they did something even more horrific: they worked harder and smarter than the natives.
When one group outcompetes another that’s a crime worthy of genocide, as we all know.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011405.htmlReplies: @Kylie, @Hail, @Dan Hayes
Larry is greatly missed.
There’s a risk that all these fired commissars are organized by an oligarch into a sort of “Trotskyite SPLC-in exile” that preaches the pure teachings of Morris Dees.
A certain M. Bloomberg has some change to spare.
He's too busy buying elections in other states to bother.
Heidi and Mark will just have to content themselves with op-ed gigs in coastal newspapers, a few articles at Woke sites, and talking-head segments on Maddow & other shows.
Oh no, not Heidi! Next they tell us they fired Ginny. Sorry, but it’s an inside-the-$PLC joke.
Beirich always seemed to be the only one who ever did any non-fund-raising work. She was always the one who actually Spread the Hate. It should have been called the HBLC. We shall not see her like again (hopefully).
This one makes her look like a wannabe MILF.
On the plus side, her gums are nice and pink.Replies: @Pericles
Perhaps she has a future career in the theatre?
The late Lawrence Auster referred to her as “Heidi Beria”.
“Calling the SLP an “anti-hate organization”, in print, is about a clear a signal as exists today to accurately identify the offending media outlet part of a cooperative propaganda network”
Try looking up “soros evil” on different search engines. Ask dot com is especially interesting.
My hunch is that this “anti poverty” scam outfit secretly funds and recruits dimwits via web ads for their “neo confederate” grouplets. I live in what was a confederate state and while there are tiny numbers of rightwing wackos, no one or group seems to be that. So recruiting must be hard.
I guess if you don’t want historical monuments and statues of dead confederate leaders destroyed by modern day Red Guards (USA branch) then you fall into this category by this group.
Perhaps Ms. Beirich was caught using one of those “alt-right” hand signs they keep inventing over there. The OK sign? I don’t get their memos so I don’t know which secret signs are still in vogue. They may have a lab there which invents these. One notorious alt-right sign is tipping your restaurant server more than 10% of the tab. Just ask one.
What happened?
Did she say something positive about White people?
A certain M. Bloomberg has some change to spare.Replies: @anon
A certain M. Bloomberg has some change to spare.
He’s too busy buying elections in other states to bother.
Heidi and Mark will just have to content themselves with op-ed gigs in coastal newspapers, a few articles at Woke sites, and talking-head segments on Maddow & other shows.
#MeToo
As I’ve noted before, the SPLC has a number of red flags that indicate the possibility of serious financial fraud. I can’t state definitively that this is the case, but there is enough to warrant a serious investigation.
The purging of the old guard seems consistent with this financial fraud thesis.
If I were a big money donor that believed in the ostensible purposes of the SPLC, I would demand that the SPLC use some of its (allegedly) considerable assets for a full, independent forensic audit (not conducted by its small local auditor, but by an independent firm) to see just what its assets are, and where they’ve been spent.
As a thought exercise, let’s suppose that has been done, but done quietly, and let’s say that that investigation turned up certain irregularities, such as assets that weren’t there, or assets that have been diverted into private bank accounts, and let’s further imagine that the entire old guard was complicit or at least obstinately incurious about such misbehavior.
Still as a thought exercise, we could imagine the big money donor, armed with this information, deciding: 1) the old guard must go; 2) no publicity on the financial misdeeds; and then either 3a) no more financial misdeeds; or 3b) the financial misdeeds continue, but instead of the assets being diverted into bank account A, they would now be diverted into bank account B.
Then a late-show monologue on how AOC is an "unapologetic bigot [against Whites]" and in Tucker's usual style doesn't quite mention the word 'Whites.' But then, in a dramatic turn, he does. Screen headline: "Ocasio-Cortez: White People are Killing Us." A final segment on possible financial corruption involving Ilhan Omar and her staffer-boyfriend, which was titled "Shining a Light on Corruption in DC."
The purging of the old guard seems consistent with this financial fraud thesis.
If I were a big money donor that believed in the ostensible purposes of the SPLC, I would demand that the SPLC use some of its (allegedly) considerable assets for a full, independent forensic audit (not conducted by its small local auditor, but by an independent firm) to see just what its assets are, and where they’ve been spent.
As a thought exercise, let’s suppose that has been done, but done quietly, and let’s say that that investigation turned up certain irregularities, such as assets that weren’t there, or assets that have been diverted into private bank accounts, and let’s further imagine that the entire old guard was complicit or at least obstinately incurious about such misbehavior.
Still as a thought exercise, we could imagine the big money donor, armed with this information, deciding: 1) the old guard must go; 2) no publicity on the financial misdeeds; and then either 3a) no more financial misdeeds; or 3b) the financial misdeeds continue, but instead of the assets being diverted into bank account A, they would now be diverted into bank account B.Replies: @Hail
This (red flags re SPLC financial fraud) is the kind of thing that Tucker Carlson might put out, which would then reach Donald Trump, who could get the IRS to do a very thorough investigation.
FWIW — Tucker Carlson’s Oct. 30 show did not mention the latest high-profile SPLC firing. He led with Kanye West feuding with the Left about something, a theme he spent the first 30% or so of his show on.
Then he turned to the autopsy result that shows Epstein was killed by homicide and not suicide. Then politics gossip — bashing Kamala Harris as a loser, something about David Axelrod expressing concern about Biden’s campaign, can Bernie win.
Then a late-show monologue on how AOC is an “unapologetic bigot [against Whites]” and in Tucker’s usual style doesn’t quite mention the word ‘Whites.’ But then, in a dramatic turn, he does. Screen headline: “Ocasio-Cortez: White People are Killing Us.” A final segment on possible financial corruption involving Ilhan Omar and her staffer-boyfriend, which was titled “Shining a Light on Corruption in DC.”
Heidi Beirich
"Sometimes Americans forget that this country was founded on white supremacy." (Heidi Beirich, May 2017)
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- Family origins: Heidi Beirich's father Russell Beirich (1933-2013) was of German-Catholic origin and partly raised in Kansas, partly in Denver (Regis Jesuit High School, 1951); two of his four grandparents, and all eight of his great-grandparents, were born in Germany, emigrating to the US Midwest in the late 19th century; Russell's father was listed on the 1930 census as a clerk at a wholesale grocery store in Colby, Kansas [which today constitutes 70% of the population of 97%-white Thomas County in western Kansas; the county went 81-13 Trump-Hillary in 2016, the best R result ever for that county]; Heidi's mother Evelyn (nee Paschmann) is a native of Kaldenhausen, Germany (Ruhr area), who is very likely also of Christian origin. Kaldenhausen may have historically been as high as 75-25 Protestant-Catholic (per 1861 census), with historically a stronger Calvinist tradition than most other areas of Germany, which were/are more Lutheran; her hometown was down to 55-45 Protestant-Catholic by the mid-20th century, presumably due to Polish and other labor migration to the 'Ruhrpott' that had occurred since.
- 1961: Heidi's parents marry, after having "met on a train in Belgium while [her father] was serving in the U.S. Army" (draftee serving about late 1950s to 1960 or '61?) and set up their married life in Palm Springs, Riverside, California, where they lived thereafter into retirement;
- Heidi born July 1967 in Palm Springs (younger brother follows, b.1971); Heidi's father was working at an accounting firm at this time, eventually becoming Senior Partner, and was active in local politics in the 1970s;
- 1981-82 academic year: In her first year at Palm Springs High School, Heidi wins the "ninth grade departmental prize for excellence in social studies" (Desert Sun, 3 July 1982), an early indication of what was to come;
- June 1985: Graduates high school in Palm Springs;
- 1989: BA, Berkeley, Developmental Studies;
- 1991: MA, University of California at Riverside, Economics;
- 1998: PhD, Purdue, Political Science; dissertation dealt with "white nationalism and neo-fascism;"
- 1999: Starts at the SPLC; has various roles but rises to Director of the Intelligence Project in Jan. 2012; begins to frequently appear quoted in the media, attacking conservatives, Christian patriots, other assorted right-wingers, and nationalists; Steve Sailer is first singled out for attack by the SPLC's Intelligence Report in spring 2001;
- 2000s and 2010s: Is frequently at work behind the scenes attempting to 'deplatform' political opponents and/or get them fired, etc.; she thus transitions, defacto, into a kind of US political commissar;
- 2008: Publishes book, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (as editor and author of several chapters);
- 2010s: Having risen in the SPLC ranks, she begins to draw a highly comfortable salary of $150,000 (in fiscal 2016; acc. to IRS filing) with a further $21,000-worth of fringe benefits; this is more than fellow commissar Mark Potok ($138,000), but much less than pre-purge Morris Dees ($358,000) and President & CEO Richard Cohen ($351,000);
- Oct. 2019: Fired from the SPLC in unclear circumstances. Unmarried, no children, age 52.
http://theamericanfreedomparty.us/wp-content/uploads/Heidi-Ly-Beirich.jpgReplies: @istevefan, @Stan Adams, @Hail, @Jim Don Bob, @Alden
And here I thought German women were average attractive to very pretty. Probably 350-400 pds
Depending on the mother's age at marriage in 1961 (to Mr. Beirich of Kansas/Denver), she may even remember the war (if, say, 25 or over at marriage; the father was 27 or 28 on the wedding day). Even if a little young to really remember the war, Heidi Beirich's mother was of age to have been exposed to the intense de-Nazification of the late 1940s -- the psychological conditioning of an occupied people, huddled for warmth in their ruined cities with starvations and things on the margins (which tapered off, IIRC, in 1948).
So here is a thought: Heidi Beirich as an example of Blowback to the late-1940s US policy of intense denazification.Replies: @Hail
She’s lying. By 1980 Orange and San Diego county were turning left for various reasons. The conservatism on its way out by the time she was in high school.
And since 1958 every high school history book in California public high schools was full of McCarthy was a Nazi persecutor of liberals and anti free speech, the Hollywood Ten Martyrs Roosevelt was a combination of fairy godmother and Jesus, evil isolationist Lindbergh and others in the 1930s, the holy crusade against evil Nazis evil southerners lynching blacks and evil segregation MLK and black worship, the entire liberal brainwashing of the public schools.
Commenter bomag asks a related question in another thread today,
Heidi Beirich is also not just any old American of German ancestry. She has a German-born-and-raised mother. Her mother’s maiden name, Paschmann, is also the name of a chain of grocery stores in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany.
Depending on the mother’s age at marriage in 1961 (to Mr. Beirich of Kansas/Denver), she may even remember the war (if, say, 25 or over at marriage; the father was 27 or 28 on the wedding day). Even if a little young to really remember the war, Heidi Beirich’s mother was of age to have been exposed to the intense de-Nazification of the late 1940s — the psychological conditioning of an occupied people, huddled for warmth in their ruined cities with starvations and things on the margins (which tapered off, IIRC, in 1948).
So here is a thought: Heidi Beirich as an example of Blowback to the late-1940s US policy of intense denazification.
- SPD, 32%
- CDU, 26%-- 22% for Rightists (various kinds) and Nationalists [+11 points]
- AfD, 11%
- FDP, 10% (this party actually sits approx. between the 'Establishment' and 'Right-Wing,' but when the cards were down, they are reliable -- they refused a Green and Merkelite drive for more Islamic aslyum seekers in 2017, derailing the government)
- 1% several other minor right-wing parties (NPD, Volksabstimmung, Freie Wähler, ÖDP [the 'right-wing green party'], Deutsche Mitte.-- 17% for Leftists and strongly pro-Ethnoreplacement parties [+1 point due to gains by the Turko-Islamic party]
- Linke, 9%
- Greens, 6.6%
- Allianz Deutscher Demokraten, 1.3% (Turko-Islamic party)
- Old-line Marxist loyalist parties (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, "Socialist Unity Party of the 4th International," DKP [Detsche Kommunistiche Partei]), 0.3%-- Others, 3% (mainly single-issue and oddball parties like the Animal Protection Party and the one whose only platform item is UBI, and joke parties like the Pirates); a total of 1.7% of votes cast were 'spoiled ballots,' many of which were probably done so in protest._____________I can guess which category Beirich would be in.
Depending on the mother's age at marriage in 1961 (to Mr. Beirich of Kansas/Denver), she may even remember the war (if, say, 25 or over at marriage; the father was 27 or 28 on the wedding day). Even if a little young to really remember the war, Heidi Beirich's mother was of age to have been exposed to the intense de-Nazification of the late 1940s -- the psychological conditioning of an occupied people, huddled for warmth in their ruined cities with starvations and things on the margins (which tapered off, IIRC, in 1948).
So here is a thought: Heidi Beirich as an example of Blowback to the late-1940s US policy of intense denazification.Replies: @Hail
Maybe of interest — Heidi Beirich’s mother’s hometown voting patterns today:
Her mother’s hometown is in the present-day voting district of “Bundestagswahlkreis Duisburg I” [168,000 voters on the rolls as of 2017]. The district usually votes Social Democrat (SPD) with a strong CDU base. In 2016 and since, though, voters across Germany turned against the SPD-CDU duopoloy that has co-administered Germany under most of Madman Merkel rule (and oversaw the 2015-16 migrant disaster). In this district (Duisburg I), there was a net move of 12% from SPD-CDU to the right-wing parties with a nationalist component.
“Duisburg I” re-elected a woman named Bärbel Bas to represent them in the Bundestag. Frau Bas (born May 1968) is actually about the same age as Heidi Beirich (born July 1967). A glance at Bas’ biography also shows she and Beirich have led somewhat parallel, political lives even if across oceans — though Beirich is much more extreme. (Bas was involved in local politics in her area as an SPD’er beginning about 1990; Beirich was doing her left-wing political science PhD in the 1990s, before linking up with the SPLC; Bas describes on her website that she was one of six children, but herself has none, though she is married; Beirich is unmarried and no children.)
Anyway, here are the totals for Zweitstimmen in the Sept. 2017 in Bundestagswahlkreis Duisburg I (from which Heidi’s mother came):
— 58% for Establishment and Merkelites [a net loss of 12 points from 2013]
– SPD, 32%
– CDU, 26%
— 22% for Rightists (various kinds) and Nationalists [+11 points]
– AfD, 11%
– FDP, 10% (this party actually sits approx. between the ‘Establishment’ and ‘Right-Wing,’ but when the cards were down, they are reliable — they refused a Green and Merkelite drive for more Islamic aslyum seekers in 2017, derailing the government)
– 1% several other minor right-wing parties (NPD, Volksabstimmung, Freie Wähler, ÖDP [the ‘right-wing green party’], Deutsche Mitte.
— 17% for Leftists and strongly pro-Ethnoreplacement parties [+1 point due to gains by the Turko-Islamic party]
– Linke, 9%
– Greens, 6.6%
– Allianz Deutscher Demokraten, 1.3% (Turko-Islamic party)
– Old-line Marxist loyalist parties (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, “Socialist Unity Party of the 4th International,” DKP [Detsche Kommunistiche Partei]), 0.3%
— Others, 3% (mainly single-issue and oddball parties like the Animal Protection Party and the one whose only platform item is UBI, and joke parties like the Pirates); a total of 1.7% of votes cast were ‘spoiled ballots,’ many of which were probably done so in protest.
_____________
I can guess which category Beirich would be in.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIF1VVIUUAAkvkk.png
-- but the host, CIS, blocks hotlinking.
(CIS, which profiled Beirich in Aug. 2018: "SPLC's Heidi Beirich: A Character Assassin Under the Banner of 'Peace, Respect, and Understanding'.")
I do believe it is one of the most flattering pictures ever taken of Miss Beirich.Replies: @Stan Adams, @GavinCato
They are the modern Big Brother, Stalinist thought police. They need to be taken down
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Earliest appearance on Internet I find is Occidental Dissent, March 2017, just before Mark Potok's as-yet-unexplained purge.
The following is a curious twist is Potok's and Beirich's story. Found online in April 2017 (League of the South website):Mark Potok's LinkedIn indeed lists him as an SPLC'er from 1997 to March 2017.
Maybe there are twenty-year term limits for left-wing US political commissars? (As Heidi Beirich also went down after her twenty-year mark.)
She is an expert on the “neo-confederate” movement? That is kind of like being an expert on people who think they are members of the Justice League. What is it, like, five people, if that? And the organisation they purport to be a part of does not exist at all. Talk about a narrow specialty.
More plausibly, she may be an expert on people who actually understand history and aren’t ashamed of their heritage. The kind of people who are okay with Andrew Jackson’s portrait on currency and who think razing civilian lands during war is an ethically shaky proposition. She apparently investigates such people by hanging around barbecues and restaurants, eating fifty pounds of hush puppies, okra, fried catfish, pulled pork, and cornbread at each meal.
It’s pure rational astrology–various people need an authoritative source for who’s a hate group, SPLC provides that service, so their obvious failures don’t matter. It’s like bond rating agencies, lie detector tests, and diversity training–everyone knows they’re just this side of Ouija boards, but there’s an institutional need for them, so we go ahead and use them anyway.
And since 1958 every high school history book in California public high schools was full of McCarthy was a Nazi persecutor of liberals and anti free speech, the Hollywood Ten Martyrs Roosevelt was a combination of fairy godmother and Jesus, evil isolationist Lindbergh and others in the 1930s, the holy crusade against evil Nazis evil southerners lynching blacks and evil segregation MLK and black worship, the entire liberal brainwashing of the public schools.Replies: @Hail
Any further particular thoughts on the “various reasons”?
Commenter bomag asks a related question in another thread today,
I see someone has made an “SPLC’s Potok as 1984 villain” image:
Earliest appearance on Internet I find is Occidental Dissent, March 2017, just before Mark Potok’s as-yet-unexplained purge.
The following is a curious twist is Potok’s and Beirich’s story. Found online in April 2017 (League of the South website):
Mark Potok’s LinkedIn indeed lists him as an SPLC’er from 1997 to March 2017.
Maybe there are twenty-year term limits for left-wing US political commissars? (As Heidi Beirich also went down after her twenty-year mark.)