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From The Tablet, Jewish publication:
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: FROM KLAN HUNTERS TO MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR SMEAR MACHINE
By bizarrely going after Sam Harris, Majid Nawaaz, and others, the once venerable organization has abandoned its core mission, focusing instead on dirty partisan politics
By Liel Leibovitz
April 26, 2018 • 9:30 PMShortly after the election of Donald Trump in November of 2016, a lot of people I knew wrote biggish checks to the Southern Poverty Law Center. They weren’t alone: According to tax filings, the group took in $136 million last year alone, bringing its total assets to a whopping half-a-billion dollars.
… You’d think that an organization with such a gleaming record would be richly deserving of support, particularly as far-right thugs are once again openly on the march.
Then again, you could ask Sam Harris.
In late March, the SPLC included a piece about the best-selling author in its daily Hatewatch Headlines, a compilation of media reports on bigots, thugs, and other assorted creeps. Why was the neuroscientist and prominent atheist thrown in together with Mark Anthony Conditt, the Austin bomber who had murdered two black men, and Nazi war criminal Jakiw Palij? Because Harris defended Charles Murray, a political scientist best-known for arguing that genetic differences may account for varying levels of intelligence between races. The assertion drove many in academia and journalism to label Murray a racist; he was famously shouted out of an appearance at Middlebury College last March, and was labeled a “White Nationalist” and an “extremist” by the SPLC.
But when the prominent Harvard geneticist David Reich echoed Murray’s ideas in a New York Times op-ed last month—arguing that “it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among ‘races’”—Harris took several of Murray’s critics to task on Twitter, including Vox’s Ezra Klein. Klein responded in his typically obfuscating fashion, doing little to discuss the ideas at hand and a lot to strangle them with potent ideological terms. White men discussing the possibility of genetic differences between blacks and whites wasn’t science, Klein thundered—it was racism pure and simple, facts and findings be damned. The SPLC was quick to mirror this sentiment, placing Harris on its HateWatch list.
This was far from the first time that the SPLC applied the blunt force of its historic reputation to label political opponents as racists or extremists. Harris’s co-author, Majid Nawaaz, experienced the organization’s wrath as well. A former radical Islamist who spent four years in an Egyptian prison, Nawaaz abandoned his zealotry and committed his life to promoting a pluralistic and non-violent version of Islam, a mission that led him to serve as an advisor to three British Prime Ministers. In the fall of 2016, however, Nawaaz was placed on the SPLC’s list of “anti-Muslim extremists,” widely disseminated with the header “a journalist’s manual.” His sins, according to the list, included sharing a cartoon of Jesus and Muhammad on Twitter and visiting a London strip club. You hardly have to be a scholar to realize that neither is particularly convincing evidence that Nawaaz, himself a practicing Muslim, is some sort of bigot. Joining him on the list was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a victim of female genital mutilation in her native Somalia and an outspoken campaigner against the practice, as well as others, like child marriage and honor killings, common throughout the Islamic world.
Rightly enraged, Nawaaz threatened to sue, and the SPLC quietly removed the list. …
Examples of this sort of lunacy abound. The SPLC, for example, still maintains a watch list of groups and individuals promoting “male supremacy,” an ideology that “misrepresents all women as genetically inferior, manipulative and stupid.” Among its preachers, according to the SPLC, is Christina Hoff Sommers, an American philosopher and writer who has criticized the radical feminist position that saw all women as perpetual victims and called instead for an “equity feminism,” a classical liberal position that focuses on equal treatment of men and women rather than on identity politics.
… The SPLC has half a billion dollars and seemingly endless appetite for such character assassination campaigns, which should trouble anyone committed to unfettered inquiry, intellectual exchange, and the other old-fashioned values for which journalism, academia, and other high-minded pursuits once stood.
Was there ever a heroic age of the SPLC?
It wasn’t founded until 1971, well after the Civil Rights movement had won in a rout. Many people think they remember the SPLC on the frontlines courageously battling Sheriff Bull Connor in the 1950s and 1960s, but that has a lot to do with the coincidence that junk mail genius Morris Dees happened to choose an odd acronym, SPLC, that wealthy elderly donors might easily confuse with Martin Luther King’s SCLC and John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael’s SNCC.
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Corbin was well cast as Morris in the 1991 TV movie biopic “Line of Fire.“
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I would sympathize with Harris but last year he said “all identity politics is bad but white identity politics is the worst.”
The site is glitching again. It jist swallows comments after you submit them so you can’t edit them.
Any way, here is his tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/samharrisorg/status/896793662050283521?lang=en
So the SPLC is going off the reservation, attacking their own, and possibly doing more harm than good, so fellow jews are trying to corral them. Perhaps they should take their bickering to their own country.
Majid and Ayaan were born to wholly Muslim families.
Sam Harris has some Jewish ancestry.
Charles Murray is wholly European gentile.Replies: @Malcolm X-Lax, @Svigor, @Anon
When you’ve lost The Tablet, you’ve lost the Upper West Side.
However I am constrained to admit that is a very low bar...
It’s nice the SPLC’s vast underbelly gets an occasional glimpse. But they will never change. The money is too good and the the left has no ethics.
Have some Tablet machers been visiting iSteve on the down low? SPLC can operate a hedge fund under non-profit umbrella status the way the Harvard endowment does.
I bet they're invested in derivatives.....
Nonsense, Steve. We owe the SPLC a debt of gratitude. After all, reading SPLC profiles is actually a great way to learn about various nationalist thinkers, activists and philosophers. If you ignore the obvious bias, it functions as an excellent introductory Wikipedia-style reference. Of course, like Wikipedia, the real value is in going directly to the sources after being made aware of them.
Ha! The Tablet is lately showing more integrity than the MSM.
However I am constrained to admit that is a very low bar…
Steve,
The SPLC has survived some (but not many) previous attacks on both its financial and journalistic integrity from Harper’s Magazine and other establishment organs.
It remains to be seen (or hoped) whether The Tablet’s attack will prove any more successful or long enduring.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t bet the farm on any significant lessening of its perverse influence on American polity. Although one can always hope!
Won’t bother researching or speculating about Liel Leibovitz’ ethnicity, but something unsettling about the victim privilege that accrues to certain classes that enables them to speak openly and freely and be taken seriously about certain sensitive issues that would invite individuals of other classes to be accused of naked racism.
Haven’t people like Mr. Sailer been pointing to this issue for years?
White Privilege?
Privilege to shut up and listen.
http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2018/04/27/shut-up-and-listen-intersectional-identity-and-the-value-of-multi-perspectival-diversity/
Oy vey,
What an opaque mess of #WokeSpeak.
By the way, when will the wokies at Apple & Facebook & Google pull their generous contributions to those frauds at that House that Hate Built?
Hey, turns out straight-haired heterosexual cable talker Joy Reid was, zut alors, once fleetingly pro-Trump (in the gay/straight Rosie/Trump context of 2007, but still)
Note how black women have always been markedly cooler toward gay men’s Acceptance/Vengeance Movement, aka Holocaust Reparations II, and eschewed the endless overvalidation thereof; compared to white chick who extend carte blanche to the gay-dominated media in gaying up everything in society & culture, viz. “Squirrel Boi” getting elected to the student senate for UC (an effective conservation zone of objective homosexuality & gay lifestyle for all 51 genders)
Reid is toast for apostacizing from the homolords. Hell hath no fury…
You have a disagreement with Sam Harris. And so you don’t sympathize with him when he is attacked by social justice warriors who think those who disagree with them are evil and deserve no sympathy?
Then his fellow anti-Whites turn on him.
Yes, we have no sympathy in this situation.
And, people who disagree with me on many issues are in fact evil.
SPLC hates whites.
This is a domestic dispute AFAIAC. I am not going to defend Harris when he has already made his feelings about white people clear.
I just have a different take on what is necessary than they do.
Did SPLC set up the honey trap — with his mother-in-law no less — that landed Matt Heimback in jail on charges of domestic abuse?
Who knows and who cares? Fatt Heimbach the Winner the Neo-Nazi Poo brought it on himself. The fatass could have done some good work with white working class but stupidity + egotism is a bad combination.
If anything, the younger generation of SJWs is even more fanatical about the goodness of the SPLC then the older hippies. They are under the impression that the Klan would have overthrown the government circa 1990 if not for the group.
This was far from the first time that the SPLC applied the blunt force of its historic reputation to label political opponents as racists or extremists.
Hot damn, I’m the only true race-ist, but SPLC never gives me any credit.
Btw, does SPLC include ADL and AIPAc as ‘hate groups’ that support Zionist oppression of Palestinians?
Or the CIA as a terrorist organization that meddles in other nations? Or US government for recruiting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
Did SPLC set up the honey trap — with his mother-in-law no less — that landed Matt Heimback in jail on charges of domestic abuse?
Who knows and who cares? Fatt Heimbach the Winner the Neo-Nazi Poo brought it on himself. The fatass could have done some good work with white working class but stupidity + egotism is a bad combination.
“We owe the SPLC a debt of gratitude.”
I had exactly the same thought. It’s a bit cynical, but nevertheless.
I hope Sam Harris suffers less in this case than in the case of who was it – Ben Affleck!, – who attacked Harris for being – – “racist” – – – .
And I do find this whole SLPC thing a bit scary too, I have to admit. – Good luck to all those unrightfully attacked!
That’s a lot of shekels. No wonder they control the horizontal and the vertical.
And there is nothing wrong with identity politics. We are social animals. Every type of politics involved identity. The only all these guys attack it now is because Whites are finally getting into the game.
They want us to be easily managed livestock with no natural loyalties to anyone, kind of like the cult leader Jim Jones wanted “rainbow” families to be interracial. Easier to control.
Huh? Who says it is least important? Who are they to say it is least important? You don't choose your siblings or parents either, but most conservatives would concede that family is pretty important. I fail to see why race or ethnic group is any less worthy of serving as the focal point of political organization than, say, one's opinion on marginal tax rates.
And that goes for white people too.Replies: @Svigor
Of those mentioned, none are actually Jewish.
Majid and Ayaan were born to wholly Muslim families.
Sam Harris has some Jewish ancestry.
Charles Murray is wholly European gentile.
Morris Dees isn't Jewish, but pretty much the rest of the SPLC leadership was, last time I checked.
Sorry for the OT.
Sam Harris said White people are the worst people.
Then his fellow anti-Whites turn on him.
Yes, we have no sympathy in this situation.
And, people who disagree with me on many issues are in fact evil.
Harris hates whites.
SPLC hates whites.
This is a domestic dispute AFAIAC. I am not going to defend Harris when he has already made his feelings about white people clear.
Their mistake was having “Southern” in the name. Identity confers rights, and Southern doesn’t get you any.
Doesn’t matter whether SPLC is a fraud, fundraising org. They fulfill (along with the ADL) a crucial need for the left: labeling anyone and any group the left (especially Jews) doesn’t like as haters and therefore justifying censoring them. No way the mainstream media gets off the SPLC bandwagon.
The SPLC has stiff competition these days from something that calls itself the Ann Frank Center. By the way, I’m sure it’s not lost on anyone here that none of Ms. Leibovitz’s examples of SPLC smears include a single non-jewish white victim.
Majid and Ayaan were born to wholly Muslim families.
Sam Harris has some Jewish ancestry.
Charles Murray is wholly European gentile.Replies: @Malcolm X-Lax, @Svigor, @Anon
He’s a former Catholic, just like Bill Maher. Just kidding. Harris looks like the bastard child of Ben Stiller and Eric Menendez. And, while not a murderer…100% kosher.
Part of taking your own side, is not taking the side of people who won’t take your side.
It’s like how boiler-room brokerage firms adopt tony names that suggest old-money WASPiness.
Quite true. I often hear normie conservatives arguing that identity politics is, on its face, illegitimate. Why, they say, should people organize themselves along lines of race or ethnic group, which is the least important category because it is not one that you choose?
Huh? Who says it is least important? Who are they to say it is least important? You don’t choose your siblings or parents either, but most conservatives would concede that family is pretty important. I fail to see why race or ethnic group is any less worthy of serving as the focal point of political organization than, say, one’s opinion on marginal tax rates.
And that goes for white people too.
Harvard has degenerated into the corrupt, racist playground of a certain foreign sect. SPLC is not a “progressive” organization, rather a part of the same corrupt sect. Reich is a member of that foreign sect and their promotion of “chosen people supermen”. Harvard is no longer taken seriously as a university by anyone.
Why Larry Summers lost the presidency of Harvard | mathbabe
https://mathbabe.org/2012/03/11/why-larry-summers-lost-the-presidency-of-harvard/
Russia – the biggest robbery of the twentieth century
https://www.polskawalczaca.com/viewtopic.php?t=20332
Jews sans frontieres: Alan Dershowitz: plagiarist, liar and racist
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com.es/2006/05/alan-dershowitz-plagiarist-liar-and.html
Big Oil’s Tree Huggers
Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com.es/2011/02/big-oils-tree-huggers.html
How corrupt is the Harvard Economics department, anyway? (And why are we philosophers so quiet?)
http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/03/how-corrupt-is-the-harvard-economics-department-anyway-and-why-are-we-philosophers-so-quiet.html
Ken Rogoff Loses It, Calls Criticism of Errors in Debt Paper a “Witch Hunt”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/ken-rogoff-loses-it-calls-criticism-of-errors-in-debt-paper-a-witch-hunt.html
The Curse Of Ken Rogoff—–The War On Cash Is A Prelude To Government Default And Wealth Seizure
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-curse-of-ken-rogoff-the-war-on-cash-is-a-prelude-to-government-default-and-wealth-seizure/
Marty Peretz’s emptiness and the corruption of Harvard
https://louisproyect.org/2010/09/21/marty-peretzs-emptiness-and-the-corruption-of-harvard/
Harvard has named a professorship for Marty Peretz in Yiddish studies and proposes to honor him at a 50th anniversary of the Social Studies program this coming Saturday. 4 undergraduates have sent a pointed letter below, featuring three racist citations form Marty about Muslims, blacks and Chicanoes. That there is such a letter is a true and sad comment on Marty’s career, despite the largely purchased honors, and a deep one about Harvard. …
Psychoprostitution
https://www.citizen.org/our-work/health-and-safety/psychoprostitution
Dr. Joseph Biederman, a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has taken the pharmaceutical company corruption of psychiatry to new depths…..
https://www.citizen.org/our-work/health-and-safety/psychoprostitution
Majid and Ayaan were born to wholly Muslim families.
Sam Harris has some Jewish ancestry.
Charles Murray is wholly European gentile.Replies: @Malcolm X-Lax, @Svigor, @Anon
Tablet Mag is Jewish, IIRC.
Morris Dees isn’t Jewish, but pretty much the rest of the SPLC leadership was, last time I checked.
Huh? Who says it is least important? Who are they to say it is least important? You don't choose your siblings or parents either, but most conservatives would concede that family is pretty important. I fail to see why race or ethnic group is any less worthy of serving as the focal point of political organization than, say, one's opinion on marginal tax rates.
And that goes for white people too.Replies: @Svigor
When leftists decide that open anti-family values are mandatory, conservatives will ditch the importance of family, too. Conservatives will buy into anything the leftist regime insists upon.
Pretty much. We’re in a political-cultural war. Sort of like how Americans didn’t cry when Soviet scum killed Nazis, because we were at war with Germany. Same kind of logic goes for all the silly questions I always hear about innocent members of adversarial outgroups – how many tears did Americans cry for German civilians killed by Allied bombing raids? How much hand-wringing is there, even today, for those innocent German civilians? If you ask a modern Russian or American or Brit about it, you’ll get some blather about what was necessary.
I just have a different take on what is necessary than they do.
My favorite tweet on this subject (paraphrasing): “I love the SPLC’s Hate Watch/Friend Finder’s app.”
You’re nobody till the SPLC hates you. (Cue Dean Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIAEAVKcKrs)
It’s that sense of humor of yours that keeps you off the SPLC hate list. They probably assume you’re at least part Jewish!
Speaking of the upper west side, Steve might want to look into a story of how the white parents of the UWS are not so happy with a diversification plan for their neighborhood schools.
I’d love to see what holdings and positions they have.
I bet they’re invested in derivatives…..
You have a disagreement with Sam Harris. And so you don’t sympathize with him when he is attacked by social justice warriors who think those who disagree with them are evil and deserve no sympathy?
The disagreement with Sam Harris is due to the anti-gentilism that he has expressed in the past unapologetically.
Why should I give a damn about what happens to a man who hates people just because they are white?
Not all of the goyim are on board with the hate whitey worldview of far too many members of the tribe.
Blacks were anti gay until Obama supported gay “marriage”. My guess is most still are anti gay but afraid to admit it. Former NBA star Tim Hardaway told the truth about the deviants and was forced into re-education by the powers that be.
Speaking of the ADL, apparently they have now lost some on the left for being too pro-jewish. The leaders of the Women’s March are blasting the ADL for apparently not loving black and brown people enough. Many on the left are increasingly anti-Semitic and these splits will continue.
I’d be careful about using it as a dating service, though.
Majid and Ayaan were born to wholly Muslim families.
Sam Harris has some Jewish ancestry.
Charles Murray is wholly European gentile.Replies: @Malcolm X-Lax, @Svigor, @Anon
I’m not going to post more comments on Revusky’s thread but if you look up Chinese-American names you will find that the Deng character is often used for Ong, Ung, and a number of similar names.
Sorry for the OT.
Was the SPLC at the “Skokie Affair” in 1977? Seems to me, historically, they should have been there fighting brownshirts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
That was the last time the ACLU actually defended the First Amendment with a content-neutral defense of the Constitution.
Yes. Ultimately, conservatives of the mainstream Republican / National Review type always end up standing athwart history shouting: “I’ll be there with you in 5-10 years”.
He listened to you; it’s the story 6 or 7 articles above this one.
every dollar donated to $PLC, is one less dollar available to be donated to _Tablet_
christ, you goyim are dumb, money-wise
Nonsense. It’s a dessert topping, and a floor wax!