Top Highlights

• The SPLC’s list of “hate groups” seems to be constantly growing. In 2000, it stood at a mere 602 groups. By 2005, it reached 803. In 2010, it jumped to 1,002. Between 2011 and 2014, it went down slightly, bottoming out at 784 before jumping back up to a record high of 1,020 in 2018. As former employee Bob Moser testified, the list is likely a fundr...
• According to Megan L. Meier, a partner at the law firm Clare Locke, “The SPLC’s ‘hate group’ accusation is a financial and reputational death sentence, effectively equating organizations to the KKK. No right-thinking person wants to be associated with the KKK, so the SPLC’s ‘hate group’ accusation is incredibly effective at shaming organizations an...
• The Black Lives Matter movement arose in protest to the police shootings of a few black men. Some of the deaths indeed seemed suspicious if not heinous (Walter Scott was shot in the back while running from a traffic stop; Eric Garner was put in a choke hold and died in route to a hospital; Freddie Gray died of a spinal cord injury after getting arr...
• After the Charlottesville donations, the tech assault on the Daily Stormer, and the assault on non-racist “hate groups,” the SPLC blacklisting started to reach horrifying dimensions. Credit card companies also started to get in on the blacklisting game. In August 2018, the crowdfunding company Patreon closed the account of Robert Spencer—founder of...
• Microaggression mania teaches students—and first-graders, apparently—to “catastrophize,” reading the worst possible intentions into everyday language.