Making Hate Pay Quotes

“While the judge adopts wholesale the SPLC’s argument that the term ‘hate group’ means nothing concrete and thus cannot be defamatory, the news media, lawmakers, and Amazon, among others, have taken it as gospel,” Frank Wright, president and CEO of DJKM, said in a statement. “The SPLC plays a disingenuous game, counting on a public connotation of ‘hate groups’ that brings to mind the KKK and neo-Nazis, while behind the scenes arguing that the term has no real meaning.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“When the SPLC started targeting the Ku Klux Klan, the hateful, racist group responded with violence, firebombing the SPLC’s offices and ordering hits on Morris Dees. These horrific responses confirmed that the KKK was desperate and violent. Yet when the SPLC expanded its “hate group” blacklisting and legal efforts to attack conservative Christians and other conservative groups, these organizations responded with words, not violence.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Rather than acknowledge the very real concerns people have about transgender activism and Drag Queen Story Hour, the SPLC author engaged in guilt by association to tar critics as in league with white supremacists. “For far-right extremists, the increased visibility of transgender people is a sign of the growing ‘degeneracy’ of the nation, wrought by ‘cultural Marxists,’ leftists and Jews as part of an assault on white, Christian families and strict gender roles. They believe that trans people, like immigrants and non-whites, are hastening the destruction of an idealized white, Western culture,” Miller wrote. In other words, any opposition to the SPLC’s narrative is a sign of intolerance and hidden white supremacy. This goes to show just how far the organization has drifted in its mission creep.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“In 2014, the SPLC’s education program offered to pay teachers $250 to attend a training in Hawaii. State Representative Bob McDermott filed an ethics complaint against an education superintendent for refusing to halt the programs. “Are Hawaii teachers being bribed to promote a specific point of view in these materials to their students?” McDermott asked. “I want political agendas, right or left, out of the schools.” “I want the teachers to spend the precious little time they have with students teaching them in the basics,” McDermott wrote. “English teachers should focus on English, things like sentence structure, and not some mainlander’s political viewpoint of social justice. Make no mistake, this program only presents one side of the story.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“At least one school in Minnesota has announced that not only will kindergarteners learn about transgenderism, but their parents won’t even be notified.272 A family in Canada filed a legal complaint after a first grade teacher told their six-year-old daughter, “Girls are not real,” undermining the girl’s worldview and causing her to go through an existential crisis.273”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“In 2012, the SPLC asked for stories about teaching kids in prekindergarten to second grade about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Also, that year, the group pushed a lesson for kindergarten through fifth grade entitled, “Do Something! Transforming Critiques of Gender Stereotypes into Activism.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The white nationalist riots in Charlottesville seem to have supercharged the SPLC’s blacklisting power. While the organization once worked with law enforcement and the FBI, it had little cultural power beyond getting northern liberals to open their pocketbooks.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The SPLC is not an advocate to end racial and ethnic tensions. They’re not working to decrease those, they benefit when we’re at war with one another,” Swain said.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Also, antifa is remarkably decentralized in order to avoid liability. The antifa ‘groups’ are simply loose affiliations of activists, virtually all of whom are white in order to avoid associating their violence and terrorism with black or brown activists. This last is an important point that never gets mentioned. Next time you see [a] photo of arrested antifa activists look for black or brown faces. There are none even though it’s an avowedly anti-racist organization.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Experts on race and extremism have insisted that the role of antifa and other far-left groups in instigating violence must not be overlooked. “Had there been no antifa people in Charlottesville, nothing would have happened,” Laird Wilcox, a longtime extremism researcher, told me in an interview. “But because antifa was there, you wind up with violence and all kinds of really ugly situations.” He also faulted the city government for having “police stand down,” suggesting that the government was “in league” with far-left protesters.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally,” he said.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Later on in the press conference, however, the president made it clear he was not calling the neo-Nazis and white nationalists “very fine people.” This is an important point, because many Democrats and reporters have falsely accused Trump of doing so.182”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The popular narrative that because “Unite the Right” activists were driven by a hateful ideology their opponents must be heroes overlooks the dangerous and radical positions of far-left groups, which far outnumbered “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The SPLC placed Carson on an “Extremist Watch List” with former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and Infowars founder Alex Jones. Carson’s crime? Repeating the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.162”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Carol Swain, a black former professor at Vanderbilt University whose work on race has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, told me that if the SPLC were to be objective and not politically biased, it should include antifa and Black Lives Matter on the “hate group” list.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Gaffney lamented that “most Muslims who don’t want to live under Sharia any more than the rest of us do and who aren’t interested in imposing it on anyone else are terrified to take a public position to that effect, because the Sharia supremacists will call them apostates, which is a capital offense. At best they could be ostracized from their community, at worst they could be murdered.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The SPLC has raked in this cash by warning of a rising tide of hate and by presenting itself as a David figure fighting the powerful Goliath of menacing hate groups. “The market is still wide open for the product, which is black pain and white guilt,” Gloria Browne, a black SPLC staff attorney told the Advertiser in 1994.100”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Some watchdogs give the SPLC an “F” for its massive reserves, however.95 The organization has a $471 million endowment96 and $92 million in overseas equity funds,97 including millions in Cayman Islands accounts.98 Others also mark it down for its high compensation to leadership. In 2017, the SPLC paid then President Richard Cohen $364,799, with another $42,742 in “other compensation from the organization and related organizations.” That year, it also paid Morris Dees $375,181, with $41,767 in other compensation. Mark Potok, a former senior fellow, earned $162,010 and $18,280 in other compensation.99”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“In the roughly ten-year period examined by the Advertiser, the SPLC never spent more than 31 percent of its revenue on programs, and it had spent as little as 18 percent on them. According to Charity Navigator, the SPLC spent 65.5 percent of its revenue on programs and 21.2 percent on fundraising in 2018, an improvement but still far below the expected 80 percent spent on programs.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The Klan is a bad thing, but the Klan is not a viable social organization any more,” said Ellis. “They don’t have significant social power. They’re an isolated group of crazy people.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The fund-raising letters would make it seem to people who didn’t really know the South as if the Klan was out of control…. And so he (Mr. Dees) could get Northerners who really didn’t know much about the South to give him money,”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“While the Klan cases forged the SPLC’s reputation, the entire legal team resigned in 1986 when it became clear that the Klan was Dees’s obsession. They claimed the SPLC had lost its way, getting sidetracked by the high-profile and lucrative battle against hate, which seems to have continued to expand from the KKK to skinheads to conservative Christian groups.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“The SPLC undoubtedly did America—and especially black people in the South—an important service by bankrupting KKK groups.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“I know Morris probably about as well as anybody does. And you know, first on, Morris is a man who strongly believes in marriage—he’s done it six times,” Williams told me. I laughed at that, but Williams said it with a straight face.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center

“Of course, this group has free speech. The SPLC has every legal right to attack what it sees as extremism on only one side of the political spectrum. The problem is, so many Americans act as though this group is a neutral and trustworthy organization when it is not.”
― Tyler O'Neil, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center