The New American
Congressional Republicans have begun an investigation into the Biden administration Department of Education’s (DOE) alleged cozy relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the widely discredited left-wing organization that claims to be an arbiter of all that is hateful in America. On December 11, Representative James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding documentation between his agency and the SPLC.
In 2019, the SPLC, which is quick to label mainstream conservative organizations, including The John Birch Society, as “hateful” or “racist,” was accused of those very sins by former staffers, one of whom referred to the SPLC as “a highly profitable scam.” Morris Dees, one of the group’s founders, was forced out of the organization over the accusations.
The SPLC’s “Hate Map” purportedly monitors what it calls “hate groups” in America.
“The SPLC has a track record of labeling anything or anyone they disagree with as ‘hate’ or ‘hate groups,’ which ironically cheapens real hate they claim to want to root out,” Comer told The Daily Signal.
Comer and the Oversight Committee have demanded that Cardona produce all communications between the DOE and the SPLC and internal communications regarding the far-left group from the time Joe Biden took office until now.
“The SPLC has weaponized its designation of ‘hate group’ to target conservative persons, organizations, and non-profits who hold opposing viewpoints or policy positions,” Comer wrote. “In 2019, a federal judge concluded that the SPLC’s ‘hate group’ label does not ‘depend upon objective data or evidence’ and described the designation as ‘an entirely subjective inquiry. Despite this subjective slant, SPLC’s labels have been used in the private sector as a basis for decisions to exclude partnerships with certain groups.”
According to Comer’s letter, the White House has hosted SPLC personnel at least 11 times over the past three years. The Oversight Committee was particularly interested in a January meeting between Susan Corke, the director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and National Security Council counterterrorism director John Picarelli. After this meeting, the SPLC placed several parental rights’ groups on their “hate map” and branded them “anti-government.”
The letter suggests that there may have been some coordination between the Biden administration, the National School Boards Association (NSBA), and the SPLC in adding those parents’ rights groups to the “hate map.”
“The decision came only a few years after the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice (DOJ) acquiesced to demands of the National School Board [sic] Association (NSBA) to investigate parents and parents’ rights activists who had chosen to speak up at school board meetings throughout the country,” Comer wrote…
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