Comments on: SPLC: self-perpetuating propaganda machine

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:37:05 +0000

The best posts from The Bee manage to skewer more than one leftist sacred cow at a time.
IYKYK
https://babylonbee.com/news/splc-says-funding-kkk-only-3-of-what-they-do

“SPLC Says Funding KKK Only 3% Of What They Do”

By: Boobah

Boobah — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:20:13 +0000

It’s worth pointing out that the Charlottesville rally was originally an attempted experiment; one of the excuses for why the ratchet kept moving leftward was that the right never demonstrated publicly for their goals. So the Charlottesville organizers set up a protest against destroying physical, public history.

Naturally, within a week of it gaining traction the media was loudly claiming that the only reason someone could possibly be against destroying monuments to Confederate heroes is because one was a crypto-racist.

A week or two later the ‘Unite the Right’ messaging went out; at the time I (not particularly loudly) noted that they agreed with the media message, except that their problem with crypto-racists was the ‘crypto,’ not the ‘racist,’ and took the Charlottesville rally as everybody else coming out of the closet.

Then people were killed at the rally; the media had already bought into the ‘Unite the Right’ messaging, which made it easy to smear the entire right with those deaths. And prove the Charlottesville experiment a failure.

And now we know that the reason the racists agreed with the media leftists isn’t because they didn’t understand what the right was saying; it was because they were paid by the media leftists.

In one move they guaranteed a leftist monopoly on rallies of that sort while parleying the fallout further into elevating the SPLC into a sort of racism QUANGO.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:54:50 +0000

It NEVER did any ‘decent work’. It was founded by a direct-mail maven to con marks out of contributions. You gave money to the $PLC, and you contributed to Mrs. Morris Dees’ collection of odd knick knacks.
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The most prominent case they ever brought was contra a descendent of Robert Shelton’s klan faction, whose members had kidnapped and murdered a youth ca. 1982. The net result of the case was that the assets of the organization – a quonset hut worth about $51,000 – were transferred to the youth’s mother. They hoovered up a seven digit sum in contributions to fight this case.
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Exposes of Dees operation were appearing in metropolitan newspapers in Alabama as early as 1994 and 1995. Harper’s magazine published one around about 2000. That so many media figures and cancel culture operatives in commercial companies would cite the $PLC tells you that those people are pig ignorant or were using the $PLC’s defamatory circulars as an excuse.

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:09:12 +0000

I agree with Chuck, and as the Southern Criminal Lawfare Center has a Billion stashed away they can go on for a very long time. Bet those employees make very good salaries.

By: Christopher B

Christopher B — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:54:17 +0000

Regarding the reference to this not being a new investigation, I have read the fraudulently opened bank accounts mentioned by Neo were discovered by the bank or banks holding them around 2020, were investigated internally, and the bank confronted the SPLC which then closed the accounts. This activity was almost certainly reported to FinCEN but given the timing they probably just sat on the report rather than refer it to the DOJ.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:12:37 +0000

@ R2L – the DOJ indictment is saturating the search page I use, but there is this one case.

Basically, the judge ruled against admitting the plaintiff’s projected sources of evidence, then dismissed the case because they had no evidence.

Hard to know if it is indicative of any others, but that sort of thing would certainly discourage filing defamation lawsuits.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/18/judge-shielded-splc-from-scrutiny-in-groundbreaking-defamation-case-appeal/

Given the “cancel culture” of the recent past (not yet ended, sadly), it would be as damaging to fight back as to give in.
Everyone knows that only racists claim they aren’t racist.

By: R2L

R2L — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:25:10 +0000

I gather some people say we cannot really legislate away prejudice, but it appeared to me that by the time we had the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) [and let’s forget about the Great Society boondoggle] plus reasonable and stupid affirmative action (busing?), by the 1990’s the kids in the schools were pretty much multi racial friends, plus more and more women and blacks appeared in law, medicine, engineering, business leadership, sports, entertainment, etc. so that by 2007 we could well believe the issue was declining rapidly, if not yet totally gone and irrelevant. Then we had Obama and the rest is bad history about a racialist industry. Magnified by a Censorship Industrial Complex.

In the context of creating self licking NGO ice cream cones, previously we usually had mention of fraud, waste, and abuse in the $30B to $100B range, i.e., a small fraction of the total national budget. This SPLC thing, plus DOGE results and other related fraud disclosures, suggest quite a bit more might be uncovered. Anyone want to bet over $1000B?

How is it that someone could not (or did they?) sue the SPLC for deformation, at least to the point of disclosure and “show us your evidence or ST*Up”?? Wouldn’t fake or flawed evidence be fairly easily struck down?

By: Paul Nachman

Paul Nachman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:16:24 +0000

In 2019 I did a case study of how the SPLC’s guilt-by-association model worked: https://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/twentynine-three/tsc_29_3_nachman.pdf

By: neo

neo — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:27:12 +0000

Niketas:

You are wrong about the Y. It was used by the city, in an actual agreement with the city, to avoid desegregation of public facilities.

Nor were those the only cases they took in their early days.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:02:35 +0000

@huxley: We agreed more than we disagreed. We don’t disagree that finishing off the Klan was a good thing; I actually said that before you did. We don’t disagree that the SPLC came in after the hard work for civil rights had all been done.

We might disagree about what finishing off the Klan had to do with civil rights. If you find it tiresome we need not explore it.