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Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white male who massacred nine black people at Charleston, South Carolina's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in a racially motivated hate crime, said in his manifesto that he was influenced by the white nationalist group Council of Conservative Citizens.
Only in America could critics of a group called “The Race” be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as “hate.”
Republican presidential candidates, GOP lawmakers and the lone black Republican in the House are returning donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof or giving the money to charity.
Holt has contributed more than $60,000 to Republicans since 2010, including several White House hopefuls, Federal Election Commission records show.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: infolurker
You realize that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself is more or less a hate group?
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: infolurker
You realize that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself is more or less a hate group?
originally posted by: Daedal
a reply to: infolurker
Out of the 784, how many have non profit status and subsidies. Perhaps a evaluation of such groups by the IRS would be helpful.
Providing a platform for these groups, let alone subsidies is ridiculous. How do we rid ourselves of this ignorance if we sponsor it?
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: infolurker
You realize that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself is more or less a hate group?
originally posted by: Daedal
a reply to: NavyDoc
I'm not nit picking about conservatives. The question is about one group in particular, and possibly others receiving tax payer money to spew non sense, and whether or not we should be doing this.
originally posted by: Daedal
a reply to: NavyDoc
Look man, I'm not trying to make this a left right, liberal conservative issue. It's about the group cited by Roof in his manifesto, and it's influence on his beliefs, which goes by a conservative name.
If in fact they are receiving subsidies, and they are, someone is paying for it, it isn't free. If it isn't you or I then it's our government. Either way, regardless of whatever group it is, should they be sponsored to promote ignorance; in this case it helped spawn a murderer.
originally posted by: Daedal
a reply to: NavyDoc
Say what you want, but don't do it on the dime and status of a tax exempt non profit platform. We're not going to live in a perfect world, however, elevating ignorance using this tactic and receiving the go ahead is splitting hairs in my opinion.
"God is the author of racism. God is the One who divided mankind into different types. ... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God."
— Council of Conservative Citizens website, 2001
originally posted by: Cuervo
a reply to: infolurker
This thread isn't about those other groups, it's about the Council of Conservative Citizens who said:
"God is the author of racism. God is the One who divided mankind into different types. ... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God."
— Council of Conservative Citizens website, 2001
This is what they are about. It's not a stretch to realize they are a racist group. Especially if you poke around for more than five minutes.
originally posted by: NavyDoc
originally posted by: Daedal
a reply to: NavyDoc
Say what you want, but don't do it on the dime and status of a tax exempt non profit platform. We're not going to live in a perfect world, however, elevating ignorance using this tactic and receiving the go ahead is splitting hairs in my opinion.
So eliminate all non-profit status. I can swing with that--as long as you do it to all the PACS at the same time, that's fair.
originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: infolurker
You realize that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself is more or less a hate group?
I certainly didn't realize that - can you explain?