This graph shows how the New York Times and the Washington Post increased theit use of the term “white supremacy” between 2010 and 2019. It illustrates the sharp increase in the usage of the term “white supremacy” by both publications during that decade, showing a 4,196% increase in The New York Times and a 5,931% increase in The Washington Post. NOTE: Their use of this term increased DRAMATICALLY when one Donald J. Trump was elected and remained high throughout 2019.
Did incidents of “white supremacist” activity increase dramatically during this ten-year time period? Hell No! These two newspapers hated President Trump, were long time promoters of Democrat policies & politicians, and were pushing a false narrative that Trump’s arrival on the political stage created more “white supremacists.” Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally be exposed as racists and race-baiting grifters. The organization is facing a federal indictment charging it with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the US Department of Justice, between 2014 and 2023 the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals associated with various extremist groups which SPLC claimed were violent. They did so to foment violence such as occurred in Charlottesville, VA in August 2017.
In May 2018 an indoctrinated reporter assumed, because yours truly believed in the Rule of Law, that I was a “white supremacist.” Be sure to read my amusing exchange with him.
WILL MEDIA BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?
Accountability is finally at hand for the SPLC, and this is welcome news for scores of individuals and organizations who have long known the true nature of the organization and been on the receiving end of its baseless smears and slander. But, while the SPLC now has to answer for its actions, the question is whether anyone in the media will also be held accountable for their participation; namely, supporting the SPLC by recklessly parroting its lies and failing to scrutinize the legitimacy of the organization’s wild claims.
What the media has conveniently ignored over decades is that the SPLC operates as a far-left political attack machine masquerading as a social justice organization, a deception designed to fuel the well-engineered fundraising machine that has made them rich. The most recently published tax filing reveals the SPLC raised $126 million in 2024 and held total assets of $822 million, a good reason why the locals in Montgomery, Alabama, call the organization’s towering headquarters the “Poverty Palace.”
By failing to acknowledge and report on the fact that the SPLC was a biased political instrument of the Left, the media became useful apparatchiks for the organization. This was especially true after 2007, when America had a protracted debate about whether to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and vastly expand immigrant admissions. When the public rejected the plans, the SPLC quickly identified immigration as a profitable new marketing niche and launched a vicious campaign of ad hominem attacks against organizations who support enforcement of US immigration laws.
Central to those attacks was the SPLC-concocted term “hate group,” for which it offered no objective criteria or definition, allowing them carte blanche to smear any group with whom they disagreed politically knowing that the media would lap it up. At the same time, the SPLC unfairly mixed legitimate public-policy organizations they had labeled as “hate groups” alongside despicable and dying organizations like the Ku Klux Klan (created by Democrats) and the Aryan Nation. The purpose was to imply relationships or moral equivalency between the groups. Though none ever existed, the media was too lazy to delineate between fact and fiction.
SPLC’s tactics were anti-American and loathsome, and yet the media couldn’t get enough, reacting like Pavlov’s dogs whenever they heard the “hate” word.
SPLC: 45 MILLION AMERICANS BELONG TO “HATE” GROUPS
The “hate group” label expanded beyond immigration policy groups. For years afterwards, the SPLC stirred the pot with increasingly absurd and spurious claims, even asserting at one point that 15 percent of Americans (45 million) belonged to so-called “hate” groups. It got to the point where any lawmaker or public policy group that endorsed the rule of law, traditional values, or a constitutionally limited government who had not yet been denounced by the SPLC was wondering what they were doing wrong. Though they overplayed their hand, the SPLC remained determined and their objectives were clear: Create fear, fuel discord, increase the organization’s wealth, and shut down policy debate. Their tactics were anti-American and loathsome … and yet the media couldn’t get enough, reacting like Pavlov’s dogs whenever they heard the hate word.
Thus, whenever a reporter working on story called a conservative public policy group or individual to solicit insight and analysis, the journalist felt duty-bound to next call the SPLC for reaction, whereupon the reporter was often told, “Oh, they’re on our hate group list.” Predictably, the next day the story would publish with the policy group’s leader’s comments unfortunately prefaced by a qualifier that his group was listed a “hate group according to the SPLC.”
Because reporters neglected to investigate the veracity of the SPLC’s characterizations and failed to distinguish between advocacy reporting and news, reputations were damaged, Americans were deceived, and respect for journalism hit a new low. Apparently, the reporter who interviewed me consulted with SPLC to discern if I was a “white supremacist.” I am not on their faux hate list, however.
To be fair, not all media have allowed themselves to be manipulated. At least three reputable news publications, The Montgomery Advertiser (SPLC’s hometown paper), Harper’s magazine, and The Nation, have all examined SPLC’s record and concluded that they routinely distort and exaggerate the truth for the purpose of fundraising.
In 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote that “the only security of all is in a free press.” The operative word being “free,” which in journalism implies an absence of bias and influence, and an adherence to facts. Had any of this been done, the SPLC “Poverty Palace” would have collapsed long ago given its dependence on media complicity. Until it does, no reporter with any professional integrity should ever consider the SPLC as a credible source of information.
Thank you to The New American for this article, which I slightly edited.
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SPLC Hates Constitutional Sheriffs
An organization can take pride when the race-baiting, hate-promoting, indicted Southern Poverty Law Center targets them: Whatever that organization is doing is benefiting Americans and protecting our freedoms, or else SPLC would not bother putting them on their hate list.
The Biggest Race-Baiter In USA, The SPLC, Has Likely Labeled YOU As A “Hater”
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The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited. Follow me on X @DianeLGruber.
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