This is Alinsky-style thuggery. This is right out of the Kirk and Madsen textbook.Amazon kicked out a leading American pro-life organization from its charitable fundraising site this week based on the recommendation of a radical liberal group.The colossal online retailer told Alliance Defending Freedom that it can no longer participate in its AmazonSmile program, which raises money for non-profit organizations, according to ADF.What’s more, Amazon told ADF that it relied on the recommendation of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a radical pro-abortion group, in making its decision.“ADF is one of the nation’s most respected and successful Supreme Court advocates, working to preserve our fundamental freedoms of speech, religion, and conscience for people from all walks of life,” said President, CEO and General Counsel Michael Farris. “SPLC is not a neutral watchdog organization. Instead, it raises money by slandering people and organizations who disagree with its views.”Farris said he sent a letter to Amazon on Thursday asking for a meeting to discuss the decision.He wrote in the letter:Once the SPLC identifies an ideological opponent, its goal is to ruin them. As SPLC Senior Fellow Mark Potok said: “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate crimes and so on … I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.” That is the group’s mindset toward those whose views it doesn’t like. Unfortunately, it is aided and abetted by businesses like Amazon that uncritically accept SPLC’s slander and use it as a basis for its own business decisions.
And excuse me, readers from elsewhere, but I must go local for a moment here. The human rights commission in the small midwestern city where I live is hosting a speaker from the SPLC at its annual meeting:
The reason my city is of interest to you, general reader from anywhere, is that it is the hometown of Mike Pence, and a high-school senior recently organized a "pride festival" and got academic credit for it, and is on record as saying a main motivation was to poke Pence right in the eye.The outreach director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups and other extremists, will be the keynote speaker at the Columbus Human Rights Commission dinner.The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. May 17 at The Commons, 300 Washington St.Lecia Brooks plans to discuss topics including immigration, and hate and extremism.Brooks travels nationally to give presentations on behalf of the center that emphasize tolerance, inclusion and diversity, as well as promoting the center’s mission to eradicate hatred and bigotry and to seek justice for society’s most vulnerable members.During her time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, she has participated in and managed several important projects, including the Mix It Up Lunch Day program through Teaching Tolerance and the center’s documentary “Bullied: A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History.”She also participated in a two-year effort to resolve complaints of race-based harassment at Alta High School in Utah in conjunction with an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the NAACP.
The infection is everywhere, in other words.
It is very late in the day. What are you doing with the remaining microseconds as they tick away?
Your post is shamefully misleading. The designation has nothing to do with abortion, but rather the ongoing persecution (including support for the barbaric practice of mandatory sterilization of transgender people and the bogus linking of homosexuality with pedophelia) of members of the LGBT community -- just like Jesus intended.
ReplyDeleteSome clarification is needed. Are you talking about the SPLC's designation of ADF? If so where are you getting this "support for barbaric practices" business?
ReplyDeleteBecause, really, without some substantiation, this looks like the slander Michael Farris speaks of.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/alliance-defending-freedom
DeleteWell, for crying out loud, if those people in Europe still had the equipment they were born with, they were not the other gender. To give legal backing to the changing of their names without any actual physical alteration is to endorse utter fantasy - mental illness.
ReplyDeleteI can't get my driver's license changed to say that I am an avocado. Same principle.
And I saw the business about trying to discredit Paul McHugh. For what it's worth, since we're tossing out links, here's the link for 4th Wave Now https://4thwavenow.com
ReplyDeleteFrom the "about" page:
4thWaveNow was started by the mother of a teenage girl who suddenly announced she was a “trans man” after a few weeks of total immersion in YouTube transition vlogs. (The daughter has since desisted from identifying as transgender.) After much research and fruitless searching for an alternative online viewpoint, this mom began writing about her deepening skepticism of the ever-accelerating medical and media fascination with the phenomenon of “transgender children.”
4thWaveNow has now expanded to feature not only the writing of the founder of this blog, but that of other parents, formerly trans-identified people, and people with professional expertise and experience with young people questioning their gender identity.
Parents, please introduce yourselves and feel welcome here.
From the founder and primary author of 4thWaveNow:
I created this site because mine is a viewpoint that is seldom publicly heard: that of a left-leaning parent who is critical of the dominant paradigm regarding transgender politics and treatment. My primary concern is children, teens, and people in their early 20s, particularly girls who are contemplating medical transition. While I may disagree with their views, I do understand that consenting adults have the right to do what they choose with their own bodies and minds.
Online, I have been accused of being “unsupportive,” even “abusive,” simply for daring to question whether lifelong medical treatment–injections and plastic surgeries–is the answer for every young person who has gender dysphoria. In my world, caring about, listening to, and lovingly parenting a child or young adult is not necessarily a synonym for unexamined “support” for everything the child says or wants. In fact, one of the main jobs in parenting a teen is, not coercion, but the offering of alternatives; discussing, and sometimes disagreeing.
It is my contention that the medical and psychological establishments are letting us all down in their rush to diagnose young people as “transgender,” then to give the message that medical treatment is the answer. Much of my writing now and in the future will focus on the adults who are pushing so many kids into extreme treatments. And I do consider hormones and surgery extreme treatment, if there is any possibility that something less drastic might be a solution.
If you are a parent looking for support, you’ve come to the right place. We are interested in hearing from parents, family members, concerned professionals, and allies from across the political spectrum. However, I am not personally in accord with conservative, religious-fundamentalist views about sexuality. I am a strong supporter of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
Please read blog posts carefully before asking questions or commenting. I will respond when I can to respectful input. I don’t have time to keep arguing the same points over and over again.
Most of the voices in the media and in medicine are in opposition to my views. I’m presenting an alternative.
The posts regularly deep-dive into wonky studies replete with graphs and charts and the like.
Going to this level invites the kinds of pissing matches that make climate discussion between right and left so tiresome and pointless. Each can bring its wonky experts to the table, and none of the conversants is going to have the time to bone up on the terminology or the statistical methods being used.
Here's all anybody needs to know about the SPLC:
ReplyDeletehttp://thefederalist.com/2018/05/07/5-reasons-southern-poverty-law-center-hate-mongering-scam/
Numerous media outlets and watchdog organizations have documented this reality, and over several decades. The Atlantic and Politico have covered, albeit in friendly fashion, the organization’s decision to group with neo-Nazis, black power groups, and Klu Klux Klan chapters people and organizations like Sen. Rand Paul, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, ADF, the Family Research Council, the Center for Immigration Studies, and Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz. Publications that have exposed SPLC’s hate-profiteering include Tablet magazine; a newspaper local to SPLC’s headquarters, the Montgomery Advertiser; Philanthropy magazine, Harper’s magazine, Megan McArdle at Bloomberg; The Weekly Standard; City Journal; National Review; and The Washington Free Beacon.
Simply put, SPLC is not a legitimate arbiter of public discourse. It poisons public discourse for profit. Its business model is to target groups and people, sometimes with baseless smears, to gin up fear and anger so people send SPLC gobs of cash it largely doesn’t use to benefit the oppressed. Neither Amazon nor major media outlets — such as CNN, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, CBS, and PBS — should amplify or give any credence to SPLC’s highly partisan, highly personal, self-interested fear-mongering.
This gets back to the point of the essay by Erick Erickson about which I blogged the other day. The book he was talking about, After the Ball, says that this is part of the. leftist methodology - brand champions of freedom and common sense as "haters" and then find ways to get the meme spread widely throughout the culture.
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