CV NEWS FEED // The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a widely discredited far-left activist group, announced this week that it is terminating a quarter of its employees.
The news of the layoffs comes just days after the SPLC released its annual “Year in Hate” report, which attacked groups that work to protect religious freedom.
The nonprofit’s union announced the layoffs on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday evening.
“Today, [SPLC] – an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for ‘hoarding’ donations – gutted its staff by a quarter,” wrote the SPLC Union:
SPLC’s decision has a catastrophic impact on the organization’s work in support of immigrants seeking justice and its mission to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance human rights through support of educators.
Per the union, SPLC CEO Margaret Huang “announced that the cuts would allow greater ‘focus’ on racial justice, but failed to explain how eliminating immigrant justice work and anti-racist education work served that goal.”
The union continued:
More than 60 SPLC Union members, including five Union stewards and our Union Chair, were informed that they would be losing their jobs. We are devastated for our Union and for our colleagues.
Functionally eliminating the Learning for Justice department leaves educators, students, and caregivers without resources and support in building curricula and orienting classrooms toward justice work.
Later in its string of X posts, the union blasted SPLC leadership.
“With nearly a billion dollar endowment and Huang earning $500,000 per year, how does abandoning SPLC’s commitments help advance the human rights of all people?” it asked. “Are these the actions of an organization fighting for racial justice in the deep South?”
“How will today’s layoffs help us achieve our goals of fighting hate, decarcerating [sic] Black and Brown people, defending democracy, and eradicating poverty?” asked the SPLC union. “The answer is: they won’t.”
The Daily Signal Managing Editor Tyler O’Neil observed that the SPLC’s restructure “heavily hit its union members.” He termed the mass layoffs a “meltdown.”
In a Thursday article, O’Neil called the SPLC a “far-left smear factory” and elaborated on its F rating from CharityWatch, which the union alluded to on X.
“CharityWatch warned that the SPLC may not use donors’ money for 7.3 years, because its reserves can keep the center running for that long,” O’Neil wrote:
It remains unclear exactly why the SPLC decided to terminate so many staff. As of 2022, the center had an endowment of $731.9 million and accounts in the Cayman Islands. It seems it should be able to hold on to its employees.
“An organization with this much money has no excuse,” Hannah Gais, an SPLC Union member who apparently did not lose her job, wrote on X.
CatholicVote reported Tuesday that the SPLC released its “The Year in Hate & Extremism 2023 Report,” which notably “included a section vilifying the notion of religious freedom.”
CatholicVote reported:
The SPLC called House Speaker Mike Johnson’s, R-LA, legal work on behalf of religious freedom a “testament to the level of influence these theocratic ideologies wield within the Republican Party.”
Specifically, the leftist group pointed to Johnson’s past role as a litigator for the pro-religious freedom legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which they branded as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.”
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O’Neil further reported that “[t]he SPLC has faced numerous scandals in recent years, though that seems not to bother President Joe Biden and his administration.”
“In 2012,” O’Neil continued,
a terrorist used the SPLC’s “hate map” to target the Family Research Council for a mass shooting. The building manager suffered a gunshot wound but prevented the terrorist from carrying out his plan. The SPLC condemned the attack but kept the council on the “hate map” ever since.
A former SPLC employee denounced the organization as “in many respects, a highly profitable scam,” in a 2019 tell-all piece published in The New Yorker.
Multiple other ex-employees have characterized the workplace environment they experienced as a “systemic culture of racism and sexism.”
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Last year, CatholicVote pointed out how the SPLC’s activism led to the FBI’s infamous targeting of Catholics:
The SPLC has also been widely panned for its addition of so-called “radical traditionalist Catholicism” as a category of alleged “extremism.” It claims that the loosely defined group of Catholics “may make up the largest single group of serious antisemites in America.”
The infamous leaked Richmond memo from earlier this year was directly attributed to this categorization by the SPLC. The memo, which was later revealed to have originated from at least three Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field offices, exposed the Bureau for targeting American Mass-going Catholics.
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O’Neil noted:
Despite all this, the Biden administration has repeatedly worked with the SPLC, with a Justice Department division listening to an SPLC briefing on its “hate map.” SPLC President Margaret Huang bragged that the administration reached out to the SPLC for advice on combating the “domestic terrorism threat.
O’Neil is the author of the book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Readers can find his full article at The Daily Signal here.
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