Before yet another assassination attempt on the president, I had been planning to write about the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal, which is a gift that I had already thought was going to keep on giving for quite some time. But as more details have come out about the latest would-be assassin, it looks like he is yet one more example of a leftist who chose violence after believing the kind of creepy poison put out by the SPLC and its dishonest brethren.
The SPLC is a great example of how deeply corrupt and infuriatingly influential the leftist propaganda ecosystem has become in America. It’s a travesty that such a such a transparently abusive and dishonest operation should have maintained its undeserved “credibility” for as long as it did. Billing itself as a sort of moral and political fact-checker, the SPLC claimed to investigate and identify dangerously hateful groups and individuals.
But somehow, those dangerous groups always seemed to be associated with right-wing conservatism. (Or, as nearly every Dem and MSM talking head calls it, “right-wing extremism.”)
Unexpectedly!
For decades, their lists of dangerous hate mongers have routinely included mainstream, non-violent and non-hateful conservatives groups and individuals – Dr. Ben Carson, various Christian and pro-life groups, respected center-right and conservative media figures, etc. At the same time, they have bent over backwards to studiously ignore and NOT list much more extreme leftist radicals like antifa, pro-trans or anti-white groups.
A record like that is self-refuting on its face. Yet even now, if you use the most common search engines, while you’ll find admissions that the overwhelming majority of SPLC targets are right wing, you’ll also be given the most ridiculous claims to justify that bias.
For example, “This [political imbalance] reflects SPLC’s focus on hate‑based ideologies, which in the U.S. are predominantly right‑wing.” After you do a spit-take from that factoid, you’ll read that, “Hate‑based ideologies in the U.S. historically emerge from white supremacist, nativist, and religious‑nationalist movements—each right‑aligned.” Before you can say, “What about antifa or BLM?” you’ll be lectured that, “Left‑wing movements in the U.S. rarely organize around racial or religious hatred, which is SPLC’s primary criterion for inclusion.”
All of which is obviously a toxic mix of Adam Schiff, horse Schiff and bull Schiff. BLM is chock full of vicious whitey haters, and the jihadi-adjacent members of the Squad and many of the Muslim politicos in Dearborn, Minneapolis and elsewhere hate Jews as much as BLM hates whites and La Raza hates gringos.
And in spite of Marxism/socialism/communism’s nominal atheism, that ideology clearly functions as a religion for those without a traditional religion. So the claim that leftist hate groups don’t “organize around racial or religious hatred” is as baseless as the rest of the SPLC’s silly assertions.
But what the evil grifters at SPLC lack in truth, logic and integrity, they more than make up for in political cunning. Because they’ve always known that the institutional left didn’t want an accurate taxonomy of political hate in our nation. They wanted a biased fact-checker whose phony “reports” they could hide behind and use as justification for stigmatizing and censoring conservatives.
And that’s what they’ve clearly been doing, for decades. Much of the big tech censorship of conservative voices was based on such dishonest reports. Search engines and social media shadow-banned conservative podcasts and news outlets, and stories that were harmful to the left – that the Steele report was a Dem-funded fraud cooked up to hamper Trump’s first term; that the Muller report was going to be full of damning findings that would land Trump in prison; that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian hoax, etc.
As an optimist, I see a huge silver lining in the fact that the SPLC had to manufacture and/or pay for supposed right-wing hate groups and their activities. The left needs cartoon villains on the right, both to justify their own hatreds, and to agitate and fund raise off of their supporters. And because there isn’t enough actual hate and racism in the country to justify their wild claims, they had to make up or exaggerate most of the reported racism.
Recidivist criminals who died in the process of committing multiple crimes — like Michael Brown and George Floyd — had to be reinvented as martyrs to racial injustice. Trayvon Martin had to be re-written from a violent, petty criminal who was bashing a man’s head into concrete when he was justifiably shot, into a saintly figure; his Hispanic would-be victim had to be transformed into a “white-Hispanic” “attacker.” Normal, mainstream conservatives had to be turned into raving fascists, so that the thuggish cosplayers in antifa could valorize their own fascist violence.
In fact, the two most significant attempts in the last decade to re-write history — through a combination of exaggerations, omissions and outright lying – were Charlottesville and January 6th. And the former – deliciously! — turns out to have been largely a creation of the SPLC, and its perverse funding of the KKK in a phony attempt to pretend that a tiny band of fringe whackos was actually a gigantic gathering of an ominous, racist conservative force.
How hilarious is it to consider that a leftist propaganda boiler-room operation named a faux grass-roots gathering “Unite the Right!?” Especially when it featured the Klan – which was always a creation of (and wholly owned subsidiary of) the Democrat left from its inception – and which was funded by the leftists at the SPLC.
Again, when I’ve argued with lefty friends over Charlottesville – they generally bought the SPLC hype about an earth-shaking attack on America by the “greatest threat to democracy” (i.e. “white supremacists”) ever – I’ve pointed out that even after many months of nationwide white nationalist hyping of what was billed as the largest gathering of right-wing bigots in decades, they were only able to draw a few hundred sad sacks.
In a nation of around a third of a billion people!
And that’s before accounting for the fact that at least half of that tiny band was only there because they were being secretly paid to attend by the SPLC!
At the risk of sounding like the lefties who have never heard a Nazi-to-GOP comparison they didn’t love, I did actually think of one authentic National Socialist connection when I first heard that the SLPC had been paying some sad little “Grand Wizard” Klan leaders to rally in Charlottesville.
If you’re not really into World War Eleven history (HA! That Ilhan Omar is a genius, isn’t she?), you might not be familiar with this story. But as a straight white guy over 40, I am contractually obligated to think about WWII – along with the Roman Empire and college and pro football – at least once per day. So I learned about this incident years ago:
On September 1st, 1939, the Nazis officially kicked off WWII by invading Poland. But they didn’t want to look like they were just aggressors invading Poland. So on the last night of August, they fabricated a precipitating cause.
At around two dozen spots along Poland’s border with Germany, small teams of SS operatives “assaulted” small German outposts including a radio station, a forestry station and a customs house. They dressed the bodies of concentration camp victims in Polish uniforms, and left them at the attack sites.
Then, the next morning, German troops rolled across the border, as the official German press announced that they were only responding to the grave threat posed by the Polish aggressors.
Sound familiar?
Hopefully, as the dishonest conniving of the SPLC is brought to light in coming months, many well-intentioned lefties will reluctantly begin to contemplate the same question confronted by some good Germans, as WWII gained momentum:
“Is it possible that we’re the baddies?”
Spoiler alert: YEP!
Am I betting that this will, at long last, cause most lefties to see the light? Sadly, no.
But hope springs eternal, in the breast of a cautious optimist!
And in the meantime, we’ll all get some sweet schadenfreude from watching SPLC con artists squirming through a trial in which they have to explain why they steered their donors’ cash to the Grand Kleagle of the KKK, Local 231.
Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!
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