“The scurrilous left-wing group had to pay for racism to meet demand,” Dan McLaughlin, National Review
"Revelations that the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center had been funding “hard right” extremist groups raise an important question beyond whether or not it was defrauding donors."As we pointed out in this space, fraud is a feature, not a bug, of today’s Democratic party.
"But there’s another aspect to the SPLC case that goes beyond fraud. Because this isn’t the first time that some left-winger has been caught manufacturing the hate they are supposedly trying to stamp out. Right-wing hate crime hoaxes are practically an industry these days.
"Most people know about Jussie Smollett’s hoax — one that the press ran with despite the fact that it was so obviously manufactured. But there have been many others.
"A few years ago, Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, wrote a book, “Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War,” that looked at more than 340 hate-crime allegations and found that more than two-thirds were hoaxes.
"Interestingly, in response to that book, the SPLC in 2019 posted on Facebook that: “Hate crime hoaxes are rare. We can’t let the far right capitalize on the sensational headlines generated by them.”
"But it’s the SPLC, and various other miscreants of the left, who’ve been guilty of capitalizing on the sensational headlines they’ve been manufacturing. The mainstream press can always be counted on to play up the initial “hate” story, and then downplay or ignore evidence that it was fake." . . . More...
"As we pointed out in this space, fraud is a feature, not a bug, of today’s Democratic party.
"But there’s another aspect to the SPLC case that goes beyond fraud. Because this isn’t the first time that some left-winger has been caught manufacturing the hate they are supposedly trying to stamp out. Right-wing hate crime hoaxes are practically an industry these days.
"Most people know about Jussie Smollett’s hoax — one that the press ran with despite the fact that it was so obviously manufactured. But there have been many others.
"A few years ago, Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, wrote a book, “Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War,” that looked at more than 340 hate-crime allegations and found that more than two-thirds were hoaxes.
"Interestingly, in response to that book, the SPLC in 2019 posted on Facebook that: “Hate crime hoaxes are rare. We can’t let the far right capitalize on the sensational headlines generated by them.”
"But it’s the SPLC, and various other miscreants of the left, who’ve been guilty of capitalizing on the sensational headlines they’ve been manufacturing. The mainstream press can always be counted on to play up the initial “hate” story, and then downplay or ignore evidence that it was fake." . . . More...
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