{"id":9865,"date":"2017-08-25T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2017-08-25T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:18:26","slug":"j-p-morgans-hate-list-more-hate-facts-about-the-parasitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/j-p-morgans-hate-list-more-hate-facts-about-the-parasitic\/","title":{"rendered":"J.P. Morgan\u2019s Hate List – more ‘hate facts’ about the parasitic SPLC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From cetusnews.com<\/p>\n

More ‘hate facts’ about the parasitic SPLC. Also published in the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

“And the single biggest effort undertaken by the SPLC? Fundraising. On the organization\u2019s 2015 IRS 990 form it declared $10 million of direct fundraising expenses, far more than it has ever spent on legal services.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

J.P. Morgan\u2019s Hate List<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What is its gift to the Southern Poverty Law Center telling bank customers?<\/strong>
\nBy<\/p>\n

Kimberley A. Strassel<\/p>\n

Corporate America will do almost anything to stay on the safe side of public opinion\u2014at least as it\u2019s defined by the media. CEOs will apologize, grovel, resign, settle. They will even, as of this month, legitimize and fund an outfit that exists to smear conservatives.<\/p>\n

The press is still obsessing over President Trump\u2019s incompetent handling of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and that has suited some profiteers just fine. The notorious Southern Poverty Law Center is quietly cashing in on the tragedy, raking in millions on its spun-up reputation as a group that \u201cfights hate.\u201d Apple CEO Tim Cook informed employees that his company is giving $1 million to SPLC and matching employee donations. J.P. Morgan Chase is pitching in $500,000, specifically to further the SPLC\u2019s \u201cwork in tracking, exposing and fighting hate groups and other extremist organizations,\u201d in the words of Peter Scher, the bank\u2019s head of corporate responsibility.<\/p>\n

What Mr. Scher is referring to is the SPLC\u2019s \u201cHate Map,\u201d its online list of 917 American \u201chate groups.\u201d The SPLC alone decides who goes on the list, but its criteria are purposely vague. Since the SPLC is a far-left activist group, the map comes down to this: If the SPLC doesn\u2019t agree with your views, it tags you as a hater.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not mince words: By funding this list, J.P. Morgan and Apple are saying they support labeling Christian organizations that oppose gay marriage as \u201chate groups.\u201d That may come as a sour revelation to any bank customers who have donated to the Family Research Council (a mainstream Christian outfit on the SPLC\u2019s list) or whose rights are protected by the Alliance Defending Freedom (which litigates for religious freedom and is also on the list).<\/p>\n

Similarly put out may be iPhone owners who support the antiterror policies espoused by Frank Gaffney\u2019s Washington think tank, the Center for Security Policy (on the SPLC\u2019s list). Or any who back the proposals of the Center for Immigration Studies (on the list).<\/p>\n

These corporations are presumably in favor of the SPLC\u2019s practice of calling its political opponents \u201cextremists,\u201d which paints targets on their backs. The group\u2019s \u201cField Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists\u201d lists Mr. Gaffney (who worked for the Reagan administration); Maajid Nawaz (a British activist whose crimes include tweeting a cartoon of Jesus and Muhammad ); and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a Somali refugee who speaks out against Islamic extremism).<\/p>\n

The SPLC has tarred the respected social scientist Charles Murray, author of the well-regarded book \u201cLosing Ground,\u201d as a \u201cwhite nationalist.\u201d Mr. Murray has been physically assaulted on campus as a result. He happens to be married to an Asian woman and has Asian daughters, so the slur is ludicrous. But what\u2019s a little smearing and career destruction if J.P. Morgan Chase gets some good headlines?<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t only the lists. An honest outfit tracking violent groups would keep to straightforward descriptions and facts. Instead, the SPLC\u2019s descriptions of people are brutally partisan, full of half-truths and vitriol designed to inspire fury.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen what this kind of fury can do in Europe, with the murder of Theo Van Gogh, the controversial filmmaker, by a Dutch-Moroccan Islamic fanatic. Ms. Hirsi Ali, who had worked with Van Gogh, still travels with security\u2014and J.P. Morgan thinks it appropriate to further target her? In 2012 a gay-marriage supporter named Floyd Corkins smashed into the Family Research Council\u2019s headquarters and shot a security guard. He told police he was inspired by the SPLC\u2019s \u201chate group\u201d designation.<\/p>\n

Had the companies done a bit of homework, they\u2019d have discovered the SPLC isn\u2019t even considered a sound charity. Karl Zinsmeister excoriated the outfit in a recent article for Philanthropy Roundtable: \u201cIts two largest expenses are propaganda operations: creating its annual list of \u2018haters\u2019 and \u2018extremists,\u2019 and running a big effort that pushes \u2018tolerance education\u2019 through more than 400,000 public-school teachers. And the single biggest effort undertaken by the SPLC? Fundraising. On the organization\u2019s 2015 IRS 990 form it declared $10 million of direct fundraising expenses, far more than it has ever spent on legal services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple did not return a call to its media center. J.P. Morgan Chase, in an emailed statement, said only that it has a \u201clong history of supporting a range of organizations that are committed to addressing inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The corporate donations are nonetheless appalling, as they legitimize a group that already exercises inappropriate influence. The SPLC\u2019s list is cited regularly by the media and congressional Democrats, ignorant or uncaring of its falsehoods. The charity tracker GuideStar for a time attached warning labels to philanthropies flagged by the SPLC.<\/p>\n

This undermines the fight against truly hateful groups. Comparing pro bono lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom to hood-wearing KKK members only make the Klan seem more innocuous. Blackballing mainstream groups only silences the moderate voices the country needs to fight hate and bigotry.<\/p>\n

Corporations have a role to play in calming today\u2019s divisions. This is the opposite. HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Write to kim@wsj.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From cetusnews.com More ‘hate facts’ about the parasitic SPLC. Also published in the Wall Street Journal “And the single biggest effort undertaken by the SPLC? Fundraising. On the organization\u2019s 2015 IRS 990 form it declared $10 million of direct fundraising expenses, far more than it has ever spent on legal services.\u201d J.P. Morgan\u2019s Hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}