The Southern Poverty Scam

sauce, please

scammers

OP is angry they labeled its hair a hate crime.

The alt-right is showing their asses on DL....don't believe them, not one bit. SPLC is fighting them, and they don't like that. That's all...

Is you name Goebbels by any chance, OP?

Gee, I wonder who KKKan't respect the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Who KKKould it be?

Have you read any information in the past two decades, R4 and R5? Now they attack liberals and hide millions in the Caymans. You respect that? I don't.

I used to contribute but was troubled by the same issues and stopped years ago. These new reports are very upsetting since I believe in the mission they purportedly were focused on.

Daily Kos talked about the Cayman Islands stuff in 2010

Dan Savage is disgusting too. He is capable of looking up tax filings, but chose not to do so.

R8, that's a smear piece and you know it, mr. Shithead.

The Daily Kos guy has pics of Dee' s palatial home, this was all public info.

Who controls the Cayman accounts? How much is in them?

When all news becomes a screamfest, with knee-jerk defenders, human slime like Dees can operate with impunity. And no, it's not limited to the left, although I wonder what an expose on HRC would uncover? Another co-opted organization that is no friend to the people it purports to fight for. I'd add NCLR to same list.

You can't dispute their OWN tax filings. Name calling is the last resort of those with no argument to make. I gave them $ for years, and seeing how it was used, regret every cent. These people are hucksters no better than a Jim Baker or Bernie Madoff.

This is when I stopped giving.

Free copy of "The Church of Morris Dees"

The Nation wrote about their tactics in 2009

Greetings Comrade OP ................. I don't contribute to them, but FUCK YOU anyway.

OP, the freeper cunt fuck posts with no proof.

Then the "proof" is from a freeper cunt fuck newsrag.

Won't you contribute your big steaming turd into my mouth?

Thanks, R15. Will give elsewhere.

I wonder how typical it is for non-profits to stash their funds in the Caymans?

Gee, looks like another brilliant breitbart story, like planned parenthood. Cuz......planned parenthood women and SCPL black.

That's all breitbart needs to know, except Jews and Muslims.

Nope, R20, look at their own, publically available, tax filings.

The knee jerk screeching defense is what has allowed Dees to profit so richly and possibly illegally. Find me names of other US "non-profits" who have stashed millions offshore. We will wait.

I regard the SPLC on a par with the conservative "think tanks" that relentlessly spew out right wing cant while hiding behind PACs using the guise of high sounding names that belie their true intent.

SPLC is the antidote to the highly organized Republican claptrap machine.

If the SPLC has offshore accounts to house their donation, who is to say the Heritage Foundation doesn't too?

Fuck you, OP.

Cayman accounts are completely legal, assuming all is reported to the IRS.

There was a bunch of controversy when it was found out that many NYC hospital systems had accounts in the Caymans, but it was all legal.

The right wing hates the SLPC because it calls them out for their hatred.

R22

Since their tax filings are public, it isn't hard to prove that SPLC stands virtually alone when it comes to any "charity" of similar size using this kind of shady financial policies that do nothing to further their purported cause.

r22 = "Johnnie Did It Too!"

Prove it then.

This is quite a strong attack against SPLC that you're waging here. Why choose Data Lounge? Where else are you waging this war?

I'll take this as a sign that SPLC is being very effective, and I'll make an extra donation in your honor,OP.

Although I do not consider the source to be very credible on many issues, they have used their considerable resources to flesh out the original story.

This is a big scam and growing scandal.

[quote]The Southern Poverty Law Center invests almost 20 percent of its nearly $320 million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments. The 2016 annual report of the Alabama-based civil rights organization reports $69,093,576 of "non-U.S. equity funds" among the assets comprising the total endowment fund of $319,283,961, a fund the SPLC describes as a "plan for the day when nonprofits like the SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail because of rising postage and printing costs." (Given that 2016 contributions topped $45 million, that day has not yet arrived.)

r28 = Jews and their "questions."

They believe they deserve an answer.

F&f r30

R28

I believe the SPLC is scamming millions from undereducated people by using questionable tactics. I think it is unjustifiable for ANYONE to defraud people by claiming to represent the poor in court when less than 0.66% of their expenditures were for legal representation.

SPLC is a joke anyway.

Hitler was ugly and stupid The Klan is made up of white trash losers Nazis don't bathe or brush their teeth Breitbart is an open sewer

That's all!

R32

I hear what you wrote to PE/Flavor Flav 911 is a joke.

Since the passage of the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act in 2004, the US Department of State is required to monitor anti-semitism world wide. The State Department is not required to monitor anti-Americanism or sentiments against Christians, Muslims or Arabs. Thus, the act created a specially protected class worthy of careful monitoring by the US Department of State of negative sentiments expressed against Jews.

In order to monitor anti-semitism, the term must be defined. The definition is subjective and will be widely, rather than narrowly, interpreted. The State Department has come up with its attempt. The State Department's approach could include any truthful statements about Israel and its behavior toward the Palestinians that the Israeli government or AIPAC or the Anti-Defamation League would deny or contest.

Anti-semitic speech can be interpreted as inciting hatred. Inciting hatred can be interpreted to be a violent act.

"Excessive" criticism of Israel is a subjective, undefinable concept that can be used to determine anti-semitic speech. It is easy to conflate "excessive" with "strong." Thus, demands that Israel be held accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, or elsewhere become acts of the hate crime of anti-semitism. -- Paul Craig Roberts

R35

What does that have to do with this?

Why the anti-Semitic bullshit?

I hate Zionists but love my extended Jewish family.

I said this in another SLPC thread, but I will repeat it here: all the black folks in my circle of friends absolutely LOATHE the organization. Thy feel that they are a "wicked" conspiracy designed to pit blacks and whites against each other eternally so the bottom classes are occupied with all the racial bullshit instead of concentrating on the fact that the 1% Elites are stealing us blind.

[quote]They feel that they are a "wicked" conspiracy designed to pit blacks and whites against each other eternally so the bottom classes are occupied with all the racial bullshit instead of concentrating on the fact that the 1% Elites are stealing us blind.

They're right! Actually this has been going on a while, of course, but I feel this is going on a LOT the last few years. Not just from this organization but a lot of so-called "progressive" groups.

It should be closed down,

Our most narcissistic cultures -- Texans and the Jews

Any recent updates on this?

I have been donating to the SPLC for a couple of years (just after 45 was elected) but now I feel icky about it.

It's not Southern, it's not impoverished, and it's not legal.

Tells you all you need to know.

How is it not legal, Voltaire/ r42?

It's legalistic, in the classic narcissistic way.

You can find actual information about the SPLC online, and don't need to bump a troll thread that's nearly two years old to get the fact you're looking for.

How is this a troll thread, r45? I understand that a lot of SPLC criticism comes, understandably, from the right; but it has its critics on the left as well.

from r47:

[quote]Morris Dees is a con man and fraud, as I and others, such as U.S. Circuit Judge Cecil Poole, have observed and as has been documented by John Egerton, Harper’s, the Montgomery Advertiser in its “Charity of Riches” series, and others.

[quote]The positive contributions Dees has made to justice–most undertaken based upon calculations as to their publicity and fund raising potential–are far overshadowed by what Harper’s described as his “flagrantly misleading” solicitations for money. He has raised millions upon millions of dollars with various schemes, never mentioning that he does not need the money because he has $175 million and two “poverty palace” buildings in Montgomery. He has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people–some of moderate or low incomes–who believe his pitches and give to his $175-million operation. He has spent most of what they have sent him to raise still more millions, pay high salaries, and promote himself. Because he spends so much on fund raising, his operation spends $30 million a year to accomplish less than what many other organizations accomplish on shoestring budgets.

This makes me sad. I thought they were a legitimate battler of hate groups.

Me too r49. I actually visited their memorial when I was in Alabama. I thought they were doing good things.

Which ... they still might be. But this leaves a bad taste in my mouth

[quote]These people are hucksters no better than a Jim Baker or Bernie Madoff.

Really, R12? Really?

FYI, hyperbole like this is why no one takes you, or anything you say, seriously. It is obvious that you have an agenda.

And if you gave substantial amount to them without looking at their financials, then you are a dipshit, regardless of what those financials do or do not reveal.

R51 is typical of NPD cultures -- blame the victim.

I can't speak for r12, r51, but one can both support the mission of the SPLC and recognize that they're also running a scam. They're not mutually exclusive, and embracing leftist causes doesn't automatically position an organization beyond reproach.

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