Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

BRING IT:

JAMES TARANTO: The SPLC Is A Journalism Scandal.

The SPLC raises money and sustains its relevance by stoking the perception that white supremacy is pervasive and influential. I have argued since 2008 that this aligns the center’s interests with those of supremacist groups. My point received insider validation from a 2019 New Yorker article by journalist Bob Moser, whom the SPLC hired as a writer in 2001. “Though the center claimed to be effective in fighting extremism, ‘hate’ always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous than ever, with each year’s report on hate groups,” Mr. Moser wrote. He and his colleagues came up with a mordant slogan: “The SPLC—making hate pay.”

If the indictment’s allegations are true, the SPLC’s fundraising efforts went beyond hyping hate groups to providing them material support.

They’re the Milo Minderbinder of nonprofits.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

And not by accident.

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IT’S LITERALLY ALL THEY’VE GOT:

They play the race card because they don’t have any others.

HE’S A JERK AND VOTERS NEED TO BE CONTINUALLY INFORMED OF THAT:

THE POLICE PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM SOCIETY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. BUT IT’S A BARGAIN, AND IT CAN’T WORK IF BOTH SIDES DON’T KEEP IT:

If not, well, there are older remedies.

UPDATE: Reader comment now says the story didn’t happen. The point holds, however.

SCAM:

THEY LEAVE WRECKAGE BEHIND WHEREVER THEY GO:

UPDATE: The real question isn’t what will happen to Spirit? It’s where will Spirit’s customers go?

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.

TERROR CONSPIRACY EXPOSED:

THIS WILL NEVER NOT BE HILARIOUS: