…"not every Democrat was a KKK’er, but every KKK’er was a Democrat.” — Ann Coulter, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama "
(You don’t dislike Democrats enough)
The Southern Poverty Law Center leveraged its credibility from fighting the KKK to smear mainstream conservatives — placing them on a “hate map” and “extremist watch list” alongside neo-Nazis and actual Klan chapters.
Targets included:
- Turning Point USA
- PragerU
- Dr. Ben Carson
- Stephen Miller
- Sen. Rand Paul
- Jack Posobiec
- Matt Walsh
- Chaya Raichik
- James Lindsay
- Mike Cernovich
- Moms for Liberty
- David Horowitz
- Franklin Graham
- Charles Murray
- Dennis Prager
- Frank Gaffney
- Heritage Foundation
- The Federalist Society
These are mainstream conservative figures—authors, scholars, influencers, elected officials, student organizations, and parent groups—branded as extremists for political disagreement.
Their sole offense was disagreeing with the SPLC’s politics.
Yet the SPLC listed them in the same database as terrorist organizations and white supremacist hate groups.
The real-world consequences followed.
In 2012, a gunman targeted the Family Research Council after using the SPLC’s “hate map” as a guide.
Months before Charlie Kirk’s murder, the SPLC added Turning Point USA to that same map.
One day before his death, it published
This Babylon Bee parody reached waaaay into left field, but can you really rule it out?
