SPLC's Hypocrisy: Funding Racist Posts While Falsely Labeling Conservatives as Hate Groups
Source: Brianna Lyman. "SPLC Was Bankrolling Racist Social Media Posts." June 4, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author argues that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hypocrite because federal prosecutors say it paid someone to make racist posts online while at the same time falsely calling conservative groups hate organizations. This shows the SPLC can't be trusted to decide who spreads hate.
Conclusion
The Southern Poverty Law Center is hypocritical and lacks credibility as an arbiter of hate because it allegedly funded racist activities while falsely accusing conservative organizations of hate and extremism
Premises
- Federal prosecutors have indicted the SPLC for allegedly paying a source over $270,000 to make racist social media posts under SPLC supervision
- The SPLC-funded source was a member of the online leadership group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville
- The SPLC has systematically labeled legitimate conservative organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and Turning Point USA as hate groups
- The SPLC's hate group designations have been used by corporations like Amazon to exclude conservative groups from fundraising platforms
- The SPLC targeted The Federalist as a hate publication simply for publishing a transcript of a Jeff Sessions speech
Assumptions
- The federal indictment allegations against the SPLC are accurate
- Conservative organizations labeled by SPLC are legitimate and not actually hate groups
- Corporate reliance on SPLC designations constitutes censorship rather than legitimate content moderation
- Making racist posts under supervision is morally equivalent to or worse than the alleged hate speech of conservative groups