The SPLC Victim Support Group

There’s a whole long thread about the SPLC already. The only reason the OP created a new thread was to troll the libs. Don’t give him the satisfaction.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Beat you to it my one minute. :slight_smile:

Contempt.

Like I said… :slight_smile:

And it is not my problem that you show all how dense you are, ‘please proceed Governor’…

This was, verbatim, to be my response, but I decided he didn’t even merit that. What an incredibly sad, trifling human being.

I just wanted to say that I came into this thread thinking it might have something to do with expressing support for the actual victims of the SPLC misconduct: namely, the women and minorities within the organization who were systematically harassed and discriminated against.

But what I find is that the OP is callously using their victimization as a pretext for mocking people who weren’t victimized by the SPLC at all, except in the trivial sense of having too much of their donations spent on overhead and marketing rather than the organization’s actual mission.

Yes, the OP should fuck off with that bullshit.

The SLPV is shaken to its core 48 hours ago and WillFarnaby can’t wait to crow about it.

Meanwhile, the Confederacy fell a century and a half ago and WillFarnaby still can’t get over it.

According to the piece I linked to, the former SPLCer listed those victims that were bilked out of money among other victims.

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?? I guess this makes sense if you can’t comprehend nuanced positions on topics outside crony military contracts.

My regards to your mother.

He started a GoFuckMyself page and donated to that.

I have contributed to the SPLC, and sure, I would have been a good deal less likely to do so if I knew the extent to which they were rolling in the dough.

Besides that, they were to some extent picking and choosing their fights in terms of their popular (i.e. fundraising) appeal.

That’s the extent of it. The SPLC was still doing good work, but maybe not as good as we thought, and certainly could have done a lot more, given their resources.

This isn’t at all like the Madoff con. Nobody’s investing their life savings in the SPLC, and winding up bankrupt. People generally don’t give money to charity that they need to pay the rent or put supper on the table. The most you can say is that the money that people like me contributed to the SPLC might’ve helped out a more deserving charity instead, or might’ve paid for a few restaurant meals instead.

So I’m not feeling particularly distraught this morning. More like “you live, you learn.” Sorry to disappoint you, Will.

That critique centers around lack of staff diversity, alleged abuse of female employees and targeting of relatively weak and insignificant bogeymen in order to keep the donations rolling in.

Your selected quote however indicates the SPLC was taking on worthy causes and doing good at the same time.

So, a flawed organization (their recent “enemies” lists struck me as off base in some respects) but hardly a Madoffian scam.

http://m.nautil.us/blog/-why-doing-good-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I believe there’s a lot of rot in the human rights industry, because it can easily shield itself from scrutiny on the basis that they are the Good Guys ™; so it attracts a certain type of people who are kind of awful but want to be seen as saints, and I do mean saints, see Mother Theresa as an example.

I know of a case here in Thailand, an NGO that advocates for Burmese workers that waxes poetically about Human Rights and the Rule of Law while some of its members are part of the group that instigated and carried out the Rohingya ethnic cleansing campaign not long ago.

These things are left to fester, in part, because bringing them to light would hurt the overall cause of pro Human Rights work, at least that’s what I think the rationale is; but leaving bad people to do the Good Work for the benefit of keeping up the appearances doesn’t seem to be a good strategy
Most importantly, as in the SPLC case, the person running the show clearly treated the position as a money making business, with the commodity being the struggle against bigotry, racism and the like, more of that means more profits so there’s an incentive to not fix the problems but to keep them going for as long as possible.

Yes that’s why rackets like representative democracy and the mafia are successful. They do things that on the surface are good like handing out turkeys on Thanksgiving. Meanwhile it’s extortion and murder that backs it all up.

Well, enough about the Trump administration… :slight_smile:

Seriously though, at the SPLC they tossed out the leadership for that corruption, no such luck in other places.

Do you have any insight on how to deal with squirrels?

CMC fnord!

You’re starting to sound like Dennis the Peasant.