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Tina Tchen, former chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 2014.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has released no results of an investigation it commissioned into its staff's corruption.
Almost exactly one year ago, the
Southern Poverty Law Center fired its co-founder and promised an internal review to examine allegations of racial discrimination and sexual harassment at the civil-rights organization.
Yet nearly a year later, this review has released no results.
Allegations of
racial discrimination and sexual harassment at the SPLC
date back decades, as I documented in my book
Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Yet the firing of Dees brought former SPLC staffers out of the woodwork. Bob Moser came forward with a
devastating exposé in
The New Yorker, confessing to his own complicity in
"the con" of exaggerating "hate" in order to bilk donors into signing big checks. "It was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we'd become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam."
" 'The S.P.L.C. — making hate pay,' we'd say," Moser recalled.
The SPLC has an endowment of roughly half a billion dollars, and millions in bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.
The SPLC is most widely known for its list of "hate groups," a list that captures "
everything wrong with liberalism," according to
Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson. He noted how the SPLC list
includes "hate groups" that consist of one person with a blog, one person with a Confederate memorabilia shop, and an organization supposedly led by a cult leader who died in prison in 2017.
Comment: It didn't take much for the world's biggest companies and economies to slip into freefall, and, once again, the taxpayer will be coming to the rescue and bearing the worst of it mostly, whether through renationalisation or bailouts, and mostly because the political and financial system is utterly corrupt - and not, as they would have us believe, because of the coronavirus: