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It turns out there wasn't enough racism to prop up the anti-racism industry in the United States, so that industry had to fund it just so they could fight it.
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that a Grand Jury had delivered an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. Founded in 1971 by then-Georgia lawmaker Julian Bond and others as a civil rights law firm dedicated to holding the Ku Klux Klan to account on behalf of the white supremacist group's victims, the non-profit now upholds that which it intended to fight.
The SPLC labeled anything that went against progressive party lines as extremist and hateful. They named Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty, Libs of TikTok, Gays Against Groomers, Focus on the Family, anti-abortion and anti-surrogacy groups, Prager U, Alliance Defending Freedom, Genspect, the Center for Immigration Studies, RAIR Foundation, and so many others as hateful. By putting the names of non-hateful groups alongside groups like Nazis and the KKK, the SPLC encouraged violence and, yes, hate, toward those groups. Charlie Kirk was killed because of hate like that.
The SPLC used donations "to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance," reads the indictment, and they did so without their donors having any idea that the money gave for civil rights was actually going to fund racist groups and individuals. There wasn't enough racism in America for the SPLC to fight, so they had to create it and then proclaim it to solicit more donations. From 2019 to 2023, the SPLC spent some $3,000,000 on funding racism.
They funded "a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 'Unite the Right' event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC." This person, who is named only as F-37 in the indictment and was identified that way by the SPLC, "made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees."
Another recipient of SPLC funds, to the tune of $1,000,000 over 20 years, was "affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance." This person, F-9, fundraised for their white supremacist group and stole documents from it on behalf of the SPLC." The SPLC funded the "Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America" and "an officer in the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club."
Yes, that means the SPLC was funding actual NAZIs in America, and these are just a few of those who got money from the SPLC to continue racism. The SPLC distributed this money through shell companies so that neither their donors nor these white supremacist recipients would know where the money was going or coming from. One of those they funded, per the indictment, "was the reported National President of American Front and a convicted federal felon for his participation in a cross burning." He got $19,000 over three years.
While the SPLC was funding these groups, they were also listing these groups on their website as "hate groups." They solicited funds from donors to fight the very groups they were propping up with millions in donor funds. A Grand Jury says this is fraud, and they're right. "In addition to directly paying leaders and others associated with the same violent extremist groups that the SPLC sought donations ostensibly to 'dismantle,' the SPLC also used Fs to indirectly funnel money to other violent extremist group leaders." This is how SPLC donor money ended up in the hands of the actual KKK.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other progressives lied when they told us white supremacy was the biggest threat facing the United States. Not only was that a lie, but the major group propping up that lie was funding the hate to justify their own existence.
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