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I think the SPLC did great work for years and was an important part of the civil rights landscape. I also think it’s become a large money driven corporate machine that has millions in offshore accounts. This isn’t a political statement. It’s what happens.
There is a lot that I would love it to focus on - like southern poverty. But I know that’s not its focus. |
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I'm seeing MAGA nutjobs on Twitter now trying to say the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that resulted in a counterprotester being killed was organized and funded by the SPLC. Absolutely FALSE given it's already well proven and documented that it was organized and funded by Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer and other avowed right wing extremists. |
How do you know this? |
DP. Easy: look at their website. |
They can say almost anything they want on their own website. That is not evidence. |
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What part of the website shows “it’s become a large money driven corporate machine that has millions in offshore accounts”? Please link to it. |
https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/splc-2023-irs-990.pdf The characterization of the SPLC as a "large money driven corporate machine" is obviously a matter of opinion, but the 990 posted on their website show that the SPLC took in $129,000,000 in revenue in FY2024 and reported assets of over $800,000,000. The Schedule F shows more than $30,000,000 in investments outside the US, specifically in central America and the Caribbean. |
You are losing the context of the comment. Except for the name, there is not much about Southern poverty on the website. Looks like a lot of the lawsuits are related to the trans issue. |
Mic drop. 🎤 |
Those of us who know anything whatsoever about the history of supremacist groups would have to lobotomize ourselves for the MAGA narrative to make any sense. |
What does this mean to you and how does it support a position? |
MAGA is dying. Not fast enough, but all the same. |
So? How’s that prove they are “large and money driven”? Many tiny colleges that no one has ever even heard of have endowments that are larger than that. The SPLC puts so much $$$ into its mission of helping poor people with legal matters that it can barely keep its own lights on in the office. |