I've see this crazy leftist nut group cited alot in the last few years by Leftists or PC extremists.... instead of debate. Anyone who criticizes Islam.. Anyone who acknowledges Race differences... You go on their list as a "Hater", and so the Left feels they no longer have to debate the Truth of any matter, just point to the SPLC/write it off. The Southern Poverty Law Center has lost all credibility By Marc A. Thiessen The Washington Post June 22, 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.d9f98635adb2 After years of Smearing good people with False charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and this week the SPLC agreed to pay him a $3.375 million settlement and issued a public apology. The SPLC is a once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. But it has become a caricature of itself, labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in line with its left-wing ideology an “extremist” or “hate group.” Nawaz is a case in point. Since abandoning Islamic radicalism, he has advised three British prime ministers and created the Quilliam Foundation, to fight extremism. He is not anti-Muslim. He is a Muslim and has argued that “Islam is a religion of peace.” So how did he end up in the SPLC’s pseudo-guide to anti-Muslim bigots? His crime, apparently, is that he has become a leading critic of the radical Islamist ideology he once embraced. Thanks to his courage, the SPLC has been forced to pay a multimillion-dollar penalty and acknowledge in a statement that it was “wrong” and that Nawaz has “made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism.” Let’s hope this settlement is the first of many, because this is not the first time the SPLC has done this. In 2010, it placed the Family Research Council (FRC) — a conservative Christian advocacy group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage — on its “hate map.” Two years later, a gunman walked into the FRC headquarters with the intention to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces.” He told the FBI that he had used the SPLC website to pick his target. Unfortunately, many in the media still take the SPLC seriously. Last year, ABC News ran a story headlined: “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ ” in which it reported that “Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an ‘anti-LGBT hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016.” The Alliance Defending Freedom is a respected organization of conservative lawyers dedicated to defending religious liberty, and it just argued a case before the Supreme Court, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. It won, 7 to 2. It is not a “hategroup.” If anything, it is fighting anti-Christian hate. In 2014, the SPLC placed Ben Carson — later a Republican presidential candidate and now the current secretary of housing and urban development — on its “extremist watch list,” alongside neo-Nazis and white supremacists. After an uproar, the group removed him and apologized. The SPLC also lists Charles Murray, a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute and one of the most respected conservative intellectuals in the United States, on its website as a “White Nationalist.” Last year, an angry mob of students, many citing the SPLC’s designation, physically attacked Murray during a speech at Middlebury College. He escaped unharmed, but the liberal professor who invited him ended up in the hospital. Little wonder that Nawaz was not just angry but also afraid about being designated an extremist by the SPLC. He told the Atlantic in 2016, “They put a target on my head. The kind of work that I do, if you tell the wrong kind of Muslims that I’m an extremist, then that means I’m a target.” Unfortunately, the settlement that the SPLC reached with Nawaz is not likely to deter it from smearing others — $3.4 million is a drop in the bucket for the center, which raised $132 million between November 2016 and October 2017 and has a $477 million endowment, including a reported $92 million in offshore accounts. Sliming conservatives is big business. The only way to stop the SPLC is if people stop giving it money and the media stop quoting it or taking it seriously. The SPLC once did important work fighting the Ku Klux Klan. But when it declares Maajid Nawaz, the Family Research Council, Ben Carson and Charles Murray as moral equivalents of the Klan, it loses all integrity and credibility. **
The country's foremost IQ scholar. Linda Gottfredson (professor emeritus of educational psychology, University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society) is also on their Hate/Hit list for her research, which, of course, acknowledges IQ difference between different groups. Yes, these Scholars like Charles Murray and Phillip Rushton are the new Klan according to the Libelous Leftist jerks at SPLC. I post below what WAS just part of her page at Wikipedia a year ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Gottfredson But guess what, it's is now shrunken dramatically and to include mainly criticism. Wikipeda can be useful but entries change every year to the LEFT and PC Entries aren't just edited, they are unrecognizable on PC things like Islam, Race and IQ, etc from their predecessors. The PC get to every entry and get it changed. [.....] Professional service Editorial board, Intelligence, 2004-present. Board of editorial advisors, Society, 1997-present. Editorial board, Learning and Individual Differences, 2004, 2008. Advisory board, International Society for Intelligence Research, 2000 ;2010 (Founding Member). Board of directors, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, 2005; 2001.[10] Editorial board, The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 1997;2000. National Council, Federation of American Scientists, 1995;1999. Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Oversight hearing on the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., May 20, 1997. Board of directors, Society of Psychologists in Management, 1994;1997. Board of directors, Society for the Study of Social Biology, 1990,1994. Editorial board, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983: 1990. Consultant, Department of Labor (DOT revision [APDOT, contract to American Psychological Association], implementation of "Goals 2000" [contract to Institute for Educational Leadership]), 1992:1995. Consultant, Department of Defense Student Testing Program contract awarded to Booz-Allen, Inc. 1989;1991. Panel member, Advisory Panel on the Identification of Alternative Approaches for reporting Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores. U.S. Manpower Entrance Processing Command, San Antonio, TX, November 1987. Consultant, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1987;1989. Honors George A Miller Award (for outstanding journal article across specialty areas), Society for General Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2008[11] Mensa Press Award, 2005.[12] Mensa Award for Excellence in Research, 2005. Faculty Senate Commendation for Extraordinary Leadership and Service, University of Delaware, awarded May 2, 2005.[13] Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research, 1999;2000. Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, elected 1998.[14] Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, elected 1995.[15] Fellow, American Psychological Association, elected 1994. Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, elected 1994. Selected articles and papers Gottfredson, Linda S. (March&;April 1994). "Egalitarian Fiction and Collective Fraud" (PDF). Society. 31 (3): 53&;59. doi:10.1007/bf02693231. Retrieved 2 November 2014. Gottfredson, Linda S. (1997). "Mainstream Science on Intelligence (editorial)" (PDF). Intelligence. 24: 13&;23. doi:10.1016/s0160-2896(97)90011-8. ISSN 0160-2896. Gottfredson, Linda S. (1997). "Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life" (PDF). Intelligence. 24 (1): 798211;132. doi:10.1016/S0160-2896(97)90014-3. ISSN 0160-2896. Retrieved 7 July 2014. Gottfredson, Linda S. (1998 . "The general intelligence factor" (PDF). Scientific American Presents. 9 (4): 24–29. Circumscription and compromise (2006), Encyclopedia of Career Development. (Based on her much cited work on the subject.)[16] Intelligence: Is It the Epidemiologists' Elusive "Fundamental Cause" of Social Class Inequalities in Health? (2004), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Gottfredson, Linda S. (11 March 2005). "Chapter 9: Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help" (PDF). In Wright, Rogers H.; Cummings, Nicholas A. Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well Intentioned Path to Harm. Taylor & Francis. pp. 155;186. ISBN 978-0-203-95622-9. Lay summary (7 July 2014). Gottfredson, Linda S. (2006). "Chapter 20: Social consequences of group differences in cognitive ability (Conseqüências sociais das diferenças de grupo na capacidade cognitiva)" (PDF). In Flores-Mendoza, Carmen E.; Colom, Roberto. Introdução à Psicologia das Diferenças Individuais. Porto Alegre, Brazil: ArtMed Publishers. pp. 155&186. ISBN 978-85-363-1418-1. Flynn, Ceci, and Turkheimer on Race and Intelligence: Opening Moves (2007) Cato Unbound What if the Hereditarian Hypothesis Is True? (2003) Gottfredson, Linda S. (2009). "Chapter 1: Logical Fallacies Used to Dismiss the Evidence on Intelligence Testing". In Phelps, Richard P. Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing. Washington (DC): American Psychological Association. ISBN 978-1-4338-0392-5. Lay summary (9 July 2013). Again: Just part of the Impressive CV of Gottfredson on the 1 year ago entry from Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Gottfredson Please Compare It's been gutted by the PC.
Hate clouds judgment/objectivity. Information shouldn't be marred because of contempt for the object of hatred. Anyway, it sounds like the SPLC and the like are cleaning up rubbish.
