The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam

Article subtitle: 
A "hate group" list loved by the media is bogus
Article author: 
John Stossel & Maxim Lott
Article publisher: 
Reason
Article date: 
17 January 2018
Article category: 
National News
Medium
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There are dangerous hate groups in America. So a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about them. They release an annual list of hate groups in America.

The media cover it, but John Stossel says they shouldn't. It's a scam.

It lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali—who grew up Muslim in Somalia and suffered female genital mutilation—as an "anti-Muslim extremist." Just because she now speaks out against radical Islam.

They also list the conservative Family Research Council as a "hate group."...

There are many non-hateful groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate list. But Antifa, which clearly is a hate group, is not on the list....

Morris Dees, the Center's founder, pays himself nearly half a million dollars a year. Although Dees once promised that when the Center's endowment reached $50 million, he'd stop fundraising, he didn't stop. Now the Center has $320 million dollars stashed away -- much of it in the Cayman Islands. It's all in their tax returns....

He says the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.