SPLC - Conclusion

While some contend that the Southern Poverty Law Center fights poverty and racism in America, many contend that it is engaged in shameless profiteering at the expense of those it is purportedly trying to protect.

 

The hate 'groups' the SPLC relentlessly raises money to fight are often the figment of SPLC's direct mail department's overheated imagination, and unrelated crimes are attributed to these groups because, like sex and fear, hate sells."10

 

He's [Dees] not immoral, he's amoral… I hesitate to say the words that I want to say because they sound so far out, but I really think the Center - in so far as Morris embodies the Center - is evil... They pretend to be on the side that has moral underpinnings (but) they do damage by their dishonesty."

- Dan Morse, "Marketing the Klan," Montgomery Advertiser, November 1994.17

 

The reporting of Silverstein and the assessment of SPLC by the American Institute of Philanthropy, however, should lead responsible news media to carefully scrutinize the assertions and accusations made by SPLC. It does suggest that the record, motives, and tactics of the organization leveling the charges should not be taken at face value."10