This is astonishing.
We have all grown used to hoaxes on college campuses designed to create an image of racism where none actually exists.
You know what I mean--a leftist, activist black student secretly writing the "n-word" on his or her own dorm room door and then claiming it signaled rampant racism on campus. Sympathy, support, suspicion on white students and drastic "anti-racist" policies would ensue.
But THIS. This is on a whole other level. This is the SPLC making an investment in its own future by funding the very hate groups it claims to oppose.
Think about it. Aryan Nation is at best a completely fringe group populated by a relative handful of whacko nutjobs, and without funding their visibility would be zero.
But give them $300k, and all of a sudden they have the means to launch media campaigns and generally make themselves look far more important than they are in reality.
That $300k was an INVESTMENT by SPLC, as it gave them grounds for their own fundraising. An Aryan Nation chapter with a $300k advertising budget creates promotional opportunities for SPLC where none would exist otherwise. We don't know for sure what the ROI is exactly, but a $300k investment in Aryan Nation could easily raise $1mm in SPLC contributions--a 3x return on investment.
This is the fake slur on the dorm room door on warp drive, except instead of garnering sympathy it garners cold hard cash from gullible donors.
This is race baiting at a whole other level. It's a sort of fraud, and worst of all it's promoting racism, antisemitism and bigotry in America--the very things SPLC pretends to oppose.
This is one of the most despicable things imaginable.
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.