Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Immigration / Media Tennessean/USA Today Use Hate Group as a Source
Posted by PJ Tobia on Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM
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Simply put, yes. The Scene would have known better, but I've come to expect mediocrity from the Tennessean.
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It appears that the Scene is as lazy as the Tennessean in checking the allegations that it relies upon in designating "hate groups" when it applies the term solely on the word of an advocacy group that does very little, if anything, to actually reduce poverty...except perhaps for those it employs.
FAIR has responded to the allegations that it accepted money from a supposedly racist group 15 years ago by pointing out some others who have accepted money from the same foundation who avoided the "hate group" designation by SPLC.
Link (edited by Pithmaster to fit blog format).
Based upon the fact that former Klan member and U.S. Senator Robert Byrd is a leading member of the Democratic Party, will the SPLC apply the same "hate group" designation to the Democratic Senate Caucus that they have applied to FAIR based upon an equally tenuous connection??
I can’t believe you would defend the Pioneer Fund, Steve. They spend quite a bit of space on their website talking up the IQ deficiencies of blacks, especially when compared to whites and Asians. While Pioneer has given money to a few scientists at big-name schools, take a look at the dates of some of those grants. Some of those scientists are long dead(!). A closer reading reveals that Pioneer funded studies have “proven” that criminality is inherited, that class differences are actually genetic and that blacks aren’t as smart as whites.
Here’s a link: http://www.pioneerfund.org/Grantees.html
Granted, FAIR may have taken the Pioneer money fifteen years ago, but I wouldn’t call $1.2 million a “tenuous connection.”
Also, how could a serious news outlet quote anybody who advocates the Aztlan theory with a straight face? Such advocacy may not be “hate,” but it sure is stupid. FAIR has also compared Muslim American politicians to Osama Bin Laden. Classy!
As for Robert Byrd, his connection to the Klan is hardly tenuous. The fact that his party is OK with that says more about American politics than you or I need to here.
I wonder if the Southern Poverty Law Center has "officially" labeled the ACLU as a communist group due to the fact that one if it's principal founders, Roger Baldwin, explicitly endorsed communism.
I doubt it.
That’s really weak. You’re equating communism with racist hate-speech? And bringing up the ACLU? Gawd. Are you now or have you ever regurgitated old talk radio chestnuts…
What I'm doing is pointing out the selectivity of the SPLC in their "official" pronouncements based on their own agenda.
I have seen the SPLC cited as a source in the Tennessean and other places (like here) as if they were some universially recognized authoritative source rather than merely another advocacy group themselves - which, in fact, is all that they are.
As for equating communism with racist hate-speech, no not at all. Communism is far far worse than racist hate-speech. Stalin, Mao and Pol-Pot killed a hell of lot more people than the KKK ever did.
The SPLC is no doubt an advocacy group with an agenda. They are also an authoritative source. They can be both because they don’t peddle lunatic theories like Aztlan or accept money from creepy eugenics groups. I’m with you on the communist thing but it’s still retrograde to run around shouting “Look he’s a Commie! They hired a Commie!”
Settle down Tailgunner Joe.
It’s a fact. If you know a better source for info on white power, neo-Nazi, KKK and black nationalist groups name it. Because they have more data on all of these groups than anyone else, they are, by definition authoritative.
