On Wednesday, PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil broke the story about an explosive new lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). While researching the claims in that lawsuit, he spoke with Will Williams, the current chairman of the white nationalist group the National Alliance (NA). Williams argued that the SPLC “needs” organizations like his, so they can profit off of demonizing them.
“It’s kind of symbiotic. The SPLC needs us and we kind of need them,” Williams told PJ Media on Wednesday. He noted that the far-Left group consistently reports on his organization’s every move in an attempt to destroy its reputation — and boost the SPLC’s profile as a “hate group” watchdog.
The SPLC earned its reputation by taking the Ku Klux Klan to court, but its mission has expanded in recent decades. The organization claims to monitor the “radical Right,” along with racist groups. To its credit, the SPLC has included liberal anti-Semitic groups like Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam on its “hate group” list, but it also attacks mainstream conservative and Christian groups on that list, ranking them along with the KKK.
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Screeching headlines about “hate group” activities allow the SPLC to justify its existence, making the far-Left group oddly reliant on the existence of the very “hate” it aims to stamp out.
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The “poverty” law center also has a tremendous amount of money. According to Charity Navigator, its net assets come to nearly $450 million. This does not include its Cayman Islands accounts, to which it transferred more than $4 million in 2015, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The SPLC racks up its money and influence by salaciously reporting on white nationalist groups like the National Alliance (insinuating that these groups endorse violence, which many of them do not) and demonizing mainstream groups as if they were equally “hateful.”
Ironically, the far-Left smear group needs disgusting organizations like the National Alliance, as they provide the SPLC a reason for existence, and a basis with which to falsely smear more mainstream groups as hateful.
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“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
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