For years, former employees revealed,
local journalists reported and
commentators have lamented: The Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its “hate group” list to promote the fiction that violent neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it has apologized to
public figures it has smeared, and it recently paid out millions to
settle a threatened defamation lawsuit.
These shameful secrets are no longer hidden in shadows.
The New York Times,
Politico,
NPR and a host of other mainstream publications are reporting on the corruption and widening credibility gap. The SPLC
dismissed its co-founder in March, and its president
has resigned amidst numerous claims of
sexual harassment, gender discrimination and racism within the organization — a parade of disgraces that vividly force the conclusion: The SPLC is hollow, rotten and failing at the very virtues it pretends to celebrate.
