We all know it, OK? We in the industry of analyzing “anti-hate activism,” as it were, have always known that Morris Dees AND the organization he uses as a Caribbean tax shelter are scummy. Even people who support hate crime laws know that the SPLC isn’t exactly singing in the choir: they’re in the back parking lot pimping other people’s pain for serious profit.
Note, for example, this comment from Harper’s Magazine, those well-known Bircher-Strangelove fellow travelers. You have to pay for this longer story from Harper’s, but it’s worth it.
Better yet, for free, see what James Simpson, Matthew Vadum, Renee Nal, and I have said about this organization over the years.
The tern ineffable comes to mind. Also, predictable.