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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in its effort to attack members of the Right, has often labeled individuals that others would consider normal as hate-filled or \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n
On\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0a Grand Jury in Alabama returned an\u00a0indictment<\/a> charging the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. \u201cThe SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public,\u201d said FBI Director Kash Patel. \u201cThey lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups \u2014 even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n The current SPLC list<\/a> of \u201cextremists \u201cand \u201cideologues\u201d includes White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, the late David Horowitz, the founder of the Freedom Center, which featured the platforms FrontPage Magazine, Discover the Networks, and Students for Academic Freedom; Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association; Chaya Raichik, aka Libs of Tik Tok; James Lindsay, the author, mathematician, and cultural critic who has become a leading figure in the intellectual opposition to wokeness; the Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy Frank Gaffney; and author and social scientist Charles Murray.<\/p>\n SPLC\u2019s \u201cHatewatch\u201d blog has included former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson; author and leading intellectual Dennis Prager, the famed Evangelical minister Franklin Graham, among others.<\/p>\n The Alliance Defending Freedom, which was labeled<\/a> a \u201chate group\u201d by the SPLC, has noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n SPLC\u2019s \u201cHatewatch\u201d blog is a perfect example. SPLC says this blog \u201cmonitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right\u201d and the \u201cactivities and events of anti-LGBT organizations.\u201d The so-called \u201cradical right\u201d and \u201canti-LGBT organizations\u201d SPLC has identified include many beloved, respected, and mainstream conservative and religious organizations and individuals, such as Ben Carson, Heritage Foundation, Dennis Prager, PragerU, The Federalist Society, Franklin Graham, Catholic Medical Association, Alliance Defending Freedom, Heritage Action, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Liberty Counsel, Pacific Justice Institute, The Leadership Institute, First Liberty Institute, Ruth Institute, European Center for Law and Justice, Alaska Family Council, Florida Family Policy Council, Texas Values, and Homeschool Legal Defense Association, to name just a few.<\/em><\/p>\n Demonstrating the breadth and danger of SPLC\u2019s conception of \u201chate,\u201d SPLC labelled the Boston chapter of The Federalist Society \u201canti-LGBT\u201d because it hosted then-United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a talk on \u201cThe Future of Religious Liberty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Months before Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination, the SPLC added Turning Point USA to its Hate Map. One day before his murder, the SPLC smeared Kirk in an online Hatewatch article tagged under \u201cDismantling White Supremacy.\u201d The article was still live days after his death.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n