the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) was prominent in
aiding impoverished black Americans to overcome their
poverty and the racially biased laws and general treatment
emanating from those laws in the southern states. The SPLC
was an honorable organization with a noble purpose.
Fast forward to today, and one can see that this outfit has had
its mission, its core values, and whatever noble purpose it
once possessed turned upside down and inside out by radical
elements that entered its ranks over time, turning it into a
far-left wing pack of bullies.
One example of this sad state of affairs is the recent releasing
by the SPLC of its annual "hate map", which lists organizations
not just in the south but throughout the United States that are
a mix of conservative groups along with extremist groups
such as neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Among the former
are Moms for Liberty, Parents Defending Education, Parents
Involved in Education, and the Alliance Defending Freedom
to name but a few. All this is an example of the maxim stating
that all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Their "evidence" of these organizations' supposed bigotry was
their protesting drag shows aimed at very young audiences (try
pre-teen all the way down to kindergarten age!). SPLC's
president Margaret Huang explained that her organization's
decision to include these aforementioned groups claimed
Moms for Liberty has "anti-government principles" and acted
on them by attempts to "censor school discussions around
race, discrimination, and LGBTQ+ identities." All that the
Moms and these other groups have done and are doing is
dissenting against the decisions by some schools and school
districts to impose a curriculum unsuited for classes of students
too young and impressionable to safely process the subject
material of these classes. Besides, one of the many rights we
have as Americans, as guaranteed by the Constitution, is
the right to dissent, especially to do so against the government
at any level, and any function (in this case, education). And
this includes parents who want to be "at the table", so to speak,
when decisions concerning curriculum for their school-age
children are made and their impact on the values that the parents
want to imbue their children with, as part of raising them
according to the parents' wishes. Children do, after all,
belong to their parents, despite catchy slogans created by the
far left-wingers ("It takes a village to raise a child!").
But the SPLC, being I suppose an indispensable cog in the
Liberal Establishment machine, can't countenance this at all.
They, like much of the establishment, want the peasants to
sit down, shut up, and obediently acquiesce to whatever
it wants to force upon the peasantry. And the latter better vote
for more of it at election time too, because it won't do them a
bit of good to vote for conservative things and candidates;
electoral chicanery will shut them down and disenfranchise
them. It reminds me of the old saying "You can't beat City Hall";
it is an elitist maxim whose message is that the occupants of the
halls of power are in charge, not the people. And that is not how
our government, including our school boards, are supposed to
function! SPLC, take note and take heed. And tell your pals
in the education wing of the establishment to do likewise.
For to ignore these facts will be at your and their political peril.
And one thing more for the SPLC: Just because you hate
a group of people who stand for something different than
what you stand for does not make them a hate group; it simply
makes you the hate group, for you are the ones doing the hating.
MEM
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