What would the Southern Poverty Law Center do if there was no poverty? If there was no hate? Or ignorance? I suppose its leaders would invent all those things. Because if you examine the SPLC's operations, it certainly cultivates ignorance, hate, and poverty -- perhaps to keep itself rolling in dough. For more on this, take a look at my recent Federalist article: "12 Ways the Southern Poverty Law Center is Scam to Profit from Hate-Mongering." The tragic irony is that the United States was on the road to real racial healing before self-professed watchdog groups like the SPLC got addicted to the practice of tearing the scabs off of the nation's wounds and pouring salt into them. Division is the name of their game: isolating people, de-humanizing them, labeling them as "haters" or "bigots" and inciting mob anger at anyone who dares to express a different perspective on life than the one the self-appointed authorities at the SPLC have assigned to us all. Sadly, the SPLC uses pathetic and scattered cases of "white supremacists" as cover to lump in and label anyone who doesn't buy into their agenda. And since 95 percent of all media outlets do their bidding, that sort of stereotyping has an impact on creating a society of skittish people loath to treat others as human until they check in with Big Brother. It's an ancient dynamic that totalitarian regimes have always depended upon to keep themselves in power. I think Alexis deTocqueville said in best in his work "Democracy in America" when he noted that the essence of tyranny is to divide people, to make sure they do not love one another. This is the purpose of political correctness, especially as applied by groups like the SPLC. The truth is that people everywhere are starving for real friendship and freedom. They certainly don't crave regimes of PC silencing that prevent them from getting to know one another. There is a loneliness epidemic. But friendship can't happen without real conversation and civil society -- both of which are shut down by SPLC-styled rhetoric. But friendship -- which can only happen through free conversation -- doesn't serve the bottom line of organizations devoted to sowing seeds of discord. It's all so sad and unnecessary. People of goodwill must confront and end this inhumane practice, which, ironically, is always pushed "in the name of humanity."
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