The SPLC’s hate group funding: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Accusations in opposition to The Southern Poverty Law Center for funding “informant” hate-group leaders.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is the paradigmatic instance of a sufferer of its own success (“Ku Klux ‘scam’ by SPLC,” April 23).
Through relentless civil litigation within the late twentieth century, it primarily destroyed the Ku Klux Klan because it was on the time, successful trial after trial with financial jury awards.
However, in doing so, it additionally destroyed the SPLC’s motive for being. Without that exact monster, it had no one left to battle and no evil opponent to level to in its fundraising efforts. If the hate teams die, so does the SPLC.
Warren Nitti
Edgewater, NJ
Donating $3 million for informants’ charges to far-right hate teams is equal to the Anti-Defamation League donating funds to Hamas.
It should return the tens of millions it acquired from deceived donors. It must also lose its tax-exempt standing and be re-named because the Southern Poverty Lawless Center.
Richard Reif
Kew Gardens Hills
Yikes! The Schumer tumor is growing.
The just lately uncovered fraud by a supposed civil-rights group speaks to what a cancerous scenario your infatuation with racism has manifested, Democrats.
Judy Chernett
Delray Beach, Fla.
I don’t perceive why The Post is so fast to imagine the worst in regards to the Southern Poverty Law Center. There is a long custom of anti-hate teams just like the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Nazi League utilizing paid informants. The SPLC is following that custom.
John Francis Fox
Sunnyside
Long hailed as a righteous group combating racism, antisemitism and different hatred, the SPLC has, in reality, been fomenting hatred as a means to raise funds, which it might then deploy to battle stated hatred.
In reality, the explosion of white-on-black grievances a few years back centered on Charlottesville, a city with few such points. But the SPLC raged in opposition to racism there, raising over $50 million for the trigger.
Yet one voice sounds off of their protection: Sen. Chuck Schumer. He believes all the fees are made up by President Trump.
Rich Klitzberg
Boca Raton
Paying tens of millions in “‘informants’ fees” to help within the propagation of more hate is totally in line with the left’s duplicity and dishonesty.
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If no actual victims exist, progressives create them. Paying racists to behave like racists to raise money for a non-profit underscores the depth of liberal hypocrisy.
Robert Mangi
Garden City
The Issue: A redistricting measure that might doubtless give Dems 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional seats.
By a slim margin, Virginia voters agreed to redistrict its political map (“Va. skews its House maps,” April 22).
The present House members are six Democrats and 5 Republicans, just like this week’s close vote margin. The redistricting is supposed to change that to 10 Democrats and only one Republican.
Democrats don’t need to have one other mid-decade census taken, understanding full properly they’ll lose illustration. Are they actually attempting to “Save democracy” by oppressing the need of the people?
David DiBello
Bay Ridge
It’s shameful the Supreme Court doesn’t stop the gerrymandering of state voting districts.
Illegal immigrants have changed fleeing voters in sanctuary cities and added people to sagging census numbers, which determines how many representatives a state carries. By ignoring voter fraud like this, the Supreme Court is rooting for President Trump to lose the House of Representatives.
Donathan Salkaln
Manhattan
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