The Southern Poverty Law Center — you know, the organization that labels your local church group a “hate organization” if they put up a Nativity scene — just quietly removed the Ku Klux Klan from its official list of hate groups. The actual KKK. Gone. Delisted. Like a stock that got booted from the S&P 500 for poor performance.
Apparently, tracking the Klan was making the SPLC’s numbers go *down*, and you can’t fundraise off declining hate. Ka-ching!
Here’s the racket, and it’s beautiful in its naked shamelessness. The SPLC has been running the same con for decades: publish a scary annual report claiming hate groups are “surging” across America, blast it to every newsroom in the country, and then sit back while terrified liberals open their wallets. It’s worked like a charm. They’ve stockpiled over half a billion dollars in assets — including offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, because nothing says “fighting hate” like Caribbean tax shelters.
But the KKK presented a problem. The Klan has been dying for years. Their membership rolls look like a nursing home sign-in sheet. Every year the SPLC counted them, the total number of “hate groups” in America went down. And a declining number is poison for the fundraising pitch.
So what did the champions of tolerance do? Did they celebrate the decline of one of the most infamous hate organizations in American history? Did they put out a press release saying, “Great news — the Klan is basically extinct”?
Of course not. They just stopped counting them.
Think about that for a second. The SPLC would rather *remove the KKK from its hate list* than admit that hate in America might actually be declining. Because if hate is declining, why would anyone send them money? The entire business model collapses.
Scott Adams — the Dilbert guy — actually predicted this would happen. He said the SPLC would eventually have to start cooking the books because their whole operation depends on hate being a growth industry. And here we are. The man who draws a comic strip about a guy in a cubicle called this one better than every journalist in Washington.
Meanwhile, you know who IS still on the SPLC’s hate list? Moms for Liberty. The Alliance Defending Freedom. Various parent groups who showed up at school board meetings because they didn’t want their seven-year-olds reading about gender theory during story time. Those people are “extremists.” The KKK? Eh, not worth tracking anymore.
(We should probably note that the SPLC was founded by a guy who got kicked out of his own organization for workplace misconduct and whose co-founder was accused of racial discrimination by his own employees. But sure, they’re the moral authority on hate in America.)
This is the same organization, by the way, that inspired a shooting at the Family Research Council back in 2012. A gunman literally used the SPLC’s hate map to pick his target. He walked in with a bag of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and a gun. But the SPLC kept right on labeling, kept right on mapping, and kept right on cashing checks.
The grift has always been obvious to anyone paying attention. They don’t fight hate. They *manufacture* the perception of hate because perception is what pays the bills. And now the mask hasn’t just slipped — it fell off, got run over by a truck, and they’re standing there pretending they never wore one.
So next time some blue-haired activist on social media cites the SPLC as a credible source on “rising extremism,” just remind them: these are the people who decided the KKK wasn’t hateful enough to count anymore because it was hurting their quarterly numbers.
The Klan is a joke. A pathetic, dying relic that couldn’t fill a Denny’s booth. And the SPLC just proved that they’re not much better — just a more profitable version of the same con, with better lawyers and a nicer website.