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Wait, the SPLC Compared Republicans to THIS Lunatic?



Writerโ€™s Note: This is the first of a two-part series about recent offensive statements made by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The SPLC this week issued a despicable statement that compared political conservatives to mass shooter Elliott Rodger, who killed six people in California in 2014.

Waitโ€ฆwhat?

Rodger, in case you donโ€™t know, was an incel, which is short for involuntary celibate. Incels are angry and sexually frustrated men who struggle to have relationships with women. Rodger posted a video on YouTube where he complained he was a virgin and had never kissed a girl. He promised to exact revenge on females who denied him sex. Rodger then murdered innocent men and women. Shortly afterward, he committed suicide.

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The SPLC is a hate group that smears individuals and groups whose politics donโ€™t align with their left-wing ideologies. On Tuesday the SPLC continued the tradition.

โ€œBeyond the mass attacks that capture headlines, this ideology [of Rodgerโ€™s] manifests itself in everyday acts of gender-based violence that often go unnoticed,โ€ the SPLC said.

โ€œSimilarly, legislative efforts to restrict reproductive rights, prevent individuals from accessing gender-affirming care, criminalize drag performances, and end no-fault divorce all reflect this culture.โ€

As reported last September, SPLC members donated $4.6 million to 39 voter outreach organizations across the Deep South. This, as part of what they callย Vote Your Voiceย grants. SPLC membersย have already committedย to spend more than $100 million on this program elsewhere around the South.

The grants will support voter education, registration, and mobilization, especially among communities of color. 

The SPLC attaches labels such as โ€œracist,โ€ โ€œwhite supremacistโ€ and โ€œextremistโ€ to people and groups who donโ€™t deserve them.

Dennis Prager, an SPLC target, writing for Investors.com, said โ€œall the SPLC does is politicize, and thereby trivialize, the fight against racism and other evils.โ€

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Writing for The Washington Post, Marc A. Thiessen, said the SPLC smears good people with false charges of bigotry.

โ€œThe SPLC is a once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s,โ€ Thiessen wrote.

โ€œBut it has become a caricature of itself, labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in line with its left-wing ideology an โ€˜extremistโ€™ or โ€˜hate group.โ€™โ€

The SPLC casually mentioned Tuesday that The New York Times published Rodgers’ 140-page manifesto. And, wait for it, the paper published it only one day after the 2014 mass shooting.

But waitโ€ฆisnโ€™t this the same establishment media that has zero interest in seeing or publishing the manifesto of Audrey Hale? Hale was the transgendered woman who killed multiple people at a Christian academy in Nashville

Part two of this series will explore the mediaโ€™s double standards.

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