鈥he SPLC had demeaned FAIR for years, without tarring it with the toxic "hate group" smear. It tried to justify its timing of the hate group announcement - the month before the "Stop the Hate" campaign was launched - with a drummed-up accusation that FAIR had "crossed the Rubicon of hate" with a meeting between a single FAIR official and a delegation from a right-wing Belgian political party that was visiting Washington.
鈥hen the SPLC designates an organization as a "hate group," it places that organization on a list already occupied by such notorious groups as the Ku Klux Klan and racist skinheads. Yet SPLC director of research Heidi Beirich acknowledged that "we do not have a formal written criteria" for assigning a label intended to bring disgrace to its recipients. Beirich said this in a radio interview: "You qualify as a hate group if you treat an entire group of people for their internal characteristics, or their inherent characteristics, or you demean them in some way." The report observes: "A definition this flexible and imprecise could summon the SPLC Hate Patrol to the door of nearly any group of football fans, political activists, or Apple computer enthusiasts." It says such laxity is an invitation for the malice and mischief that are characteristic of the SPLC.
鈥he SPLC's attacks on Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, are a classic guilt-by-association smear based on Beck's relationship with FAIR founder John Tanton. Noting that Beck says he is not a racist, the SPLC has acknowledged that "his website and other writings do not contradict that." Meanwhile, the SPLC ignores a large body of evidence that demonstrates his rejection of immigrant-bashing and his search for measured public debate.
鈥he SPLC is equally reckless in its evaluation of Otis Graham, the most important figure in the founding of CIS and a member (and former chairman) of the CIS board. Graham is a respected scholar with a long history as an advocate of civil rights and environmental protections. In his 2008 memoir he reflected on his efforts to seek reduced immigration, "without disparaging immigrants or their cultures, reserving condemnation for our own incompetent and shortsighted public officials and ethnocentric lobbyists rather than the immigrants caught in the mighty currents of globalization."
鈥ecause of Tanton's role as the founder of FAIR, and because he was instrumental in the establishment of CIS and NumbersUSA, he can rightly be described as the father of the modern movement to restrict immigration. But the SPLC caricature of Tanton as a sinister "Puppeteer" manipulating the groups at will is absurd. Nevertheless, the CIS report also criticizes Tanton, describing his big-tent philosophy that embraces some figures who do not play a constructive role in the immigration debate. It also says that he has "a tin ear for the sensitivities of immigration."
鈥he report shows that the SPLC has distorted many of Tanton's comments, egregiously taking them out of context to justify their claims of bigotry. It shows that many of Tanton's concerns have also been raised by serious students of immigration.
鈥he SPLC/La Raza campaign to delegitimize FAIR, NumbersUSA, and CIS diverts attention from substantial issues about immigration policy. The report cites the work of journalists and scholars who acknowledge that there are sound, respectable reasons to want to restrict immigration, both legal and illegal.
鈥aird Wilcox, an archivist of volatile political movements who has studied the SPLC, called it a prime example of the "anti-racist industry afoot in the United States that has attracted bullying, moralizing fanatics." He said the SPLC has benefited from the work of cooperative reporters who have written about the "hate group" accusation without questioning the SPLC's tactics and claims and without reporting that the SPLC is an ally of the NCLR "Stop the Hate" campaign.
鈥he SPLC has parroted the NCLR line in denying the complexity of the effects of immigration. It has also helped NCLR gloss over the historically and culturally charged meaning of "La Raza." The term comes from Mexican nationalist and intellectual Jose Vasconcelos, who wroteWhat is your opinion La Raza %26amp; SPLC at last exposed for what their true intentions really are?
It is something that all have already known and look, an illegal himself and he still believes in the racism. They are always asking for proof, but when provided, they still deny the facts. I asked for proof from some sites that shows racism, not one of the alias's or the very few other advocates could come up with something. All these groups are worried about is lining the pockets of the head honchos. Nothing else. And as another poster said, they just make the whole situation worse. Especially with their racism and the bull they spread about excellent organizations such as the American Legion and others.What is your opinion La Raza %26amp; SPLC at last exposed for what their true intentions really are?
That the SPLC is a very crummy organization is clearly outlined in the article. The guy up there doesn't apparently know how to click on links, but it is worth while to do so because you discover who the bad guys are in this incredible mess. A mess, and every day the Administration refuses to enforce the law, it gets worse.What is your opinion La Raza %26amp; SPLC at last exposed for what their true intentions really are?
we do not have a formal written criteria" for assigning a label intended to bring disgrace to its recipients. Beirich said this in a radio interview: "You qualify as a hate group if you treat an entire group of people for their internal characteristics, or their inherent characteristics, or you demean them in some way." The report observes: "
Illegals demean themselves by crossing the border and having an anchor baby within 6-9 mos then immediately applying for welfare. By using fake or stolen ID's %26amp; socials. Claiming so many dependents that they have no tax liability.
If they truly wanted a better life they would get educated, not have more kids that they could support, stay off welfare and MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN.
YEAH! we are suppose to believe what comes out of CIS? not buying it. You failed!
Even law enforcement knows they are at hate group.
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Sheriff cancels meeting with think tank with hate group ties
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