New in PJ Media:
The Left is a big club, and you’re not in it. Leftists play a game that works this way: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of their primary attack machines, publishes a report purporting to demonstrate that some conservative group or other is a “hate group.” This allegedly objective study is generally a tissue of innuendo, misrepresentations, and outright lies. But nevertheless, leading corporations then cite the SPLC’s study as justification for barring the abhorrent hate group from their various services.
The supposedly objective news media solemnly repeats that the group in question has been designated by the SPLC as a “hate group,” as if this were akin to a cancer diagnosis from a sober, disinterested medical professional. But it’s more like a leprosy diagnosis: after all this, the “hate group” is duly ostracized and marginalized. This game has worked for years, with cowardly conservatives playing along and accepting the ostracism of some foremost voices of dissent from the Leftist agenda. But Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday declared that it is high time that this sinister game comes to an end.
Thomas dissented from the Court’s denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc. v. Southern Poverty Law Center, and it’s a shame that his remarks are in a dissenting opinion on a case the Court declined to hear rather than a majority opinion striking against the SPLC, as the Leftist beast will never be vanquished as long as the SPLC’s wholly unjustified status as an impartial arbiter of what does and does not constitute “hate” that is beyond the pale of acceptable discourse remains unchallenged.
Coral Ridge Ministries Media tried to challenge it. As Thomas notes in his dissent, Coral Ridge is “a Christian nonprofit dedicated to spreading the ‘Gospel of Jesus Christ’ and ‘a biblically informed view of the world, using all available media.’” That is not illegal in the United States, but Coral Ridge’s efforts were significantly hampered when the SPLC designated it an “anti-LGBT hate group” for holding what Thomas termed “biblical views concerning human sexuality and marriage.” After this, the ostracism began.
Through its AmazonSmile program, Amazon allows its customers to contribute to their favorite charities with their purchases; Coral Ridge, however, despite being an eligible charity as far as the U.S. government is concerned, as it is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was barred from participating in AmazonSmile, on the grounds that the SPLC had designated it a “hate group.”
Coral Ridge sued the SPLC for defamation, maintaining that it “has nothing but love for people who engage in homosexual conduct” and “has never attacked or maligned anyone on the basis of engaging in homosexual conduct.” Coral Ridge asserted that the SPLC knew that it wasn’t really a “hate group” at all but tarred it as one nonetheless in order to “destroy the Ministry” by “dissuad[ing] people and organizations from donating” to it.
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Mike says
this all started with Obama facilitated by Soros $$$ Soros needs to be banded form the country and his money needs to be banded
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mortimer says
The answer to Leftist sly censorship is for conservatives to work around it by forming their own media network which will be the necessary source for all conservatives. The Left now presents a UNIFIED FRONT against conservatives with everything co-ordinated with the DNC and all Leftist news media using the same talking points and often EXACTLY THE SAME WORDING. These memes and MANTRAS are repeated endlessly to drum them into the public dummies. It has been working well until recently, but now, the reality of inflation and much higher crime levels is contradicting the MANTRAS and the public is not so dumb now. They are turning from the lick-spittles at CNN and NBC in disgust.
The ultimate solution will require more work by Project Veritas to infiltrate the Soros network and other networks that are colluding with Big Tech and Big Corporations that want the fast track to the Dem gravy train.
Forensic accountants are another part of the solution. They can follow the money to see who the players are. Conservatives have to distrust the Leftists more than they distrust us. We are naive about the depth of their depravity.
Roland says
Clarence Thomas is as wacky as Donald Trump. He was named to the Supreme Court by practical joker President George Bush the First.
gravenimage says
Unimpeachable logic! sarc/off
mortimer says
Justice Thomas should know better than to ask for censorship. Calumny is horrible, but many of us have suffered it. It’s part of the job when you are in position of power.
I sympathize. Justice Thomas has reputation in court as the nicest of the judges. He has gone out of way to know the names of all the employees of the court and is known to speak nicely to all of them.
However, like all of us, Thomas can either sue people who calumniate him or he can bear it patiently and hope the smell goes away. Sometimes, calumny can go on for many years.
There are malicious people wherever you go. These narcissists go around looking for targets. Sometimes, fighting these narcissists isn’t worth it, but sometimes it is.
somehistory says
Justice Thomas did not “ask for censorship.” He said that the charity should be able to sue the despicable lplc for defamation.
If you, ‘mortimer’ had things said about you that damaged your reputation and therefore, your ability to do business, you could sue the splc and maybe win.
However, the Law as written makes it more difficult for a celeb or a company or entity better known, as this charity is, to sue because the bar is set very high.
as Mr. Spencer points out, the “hate” thing is subjective and difficult to define.
Wanting the charity to have a fighting chance against a **real** hate group, the splc, is not censorship, but only giving them an equal playing field to stop the lies.
gravenimage says
Justice Thomas Wants to End Media’s Ability ‘to Cast False Aspersions on Public Figures’
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Certainly, there are libel laws. I take Justice Thomas’s point here–but further laws would likely be used *against* conservatives by this president.
mortimer says
No censorship of the press.
People have sued the New York Times and won.
somehistory says
It’s much easier for a private citizen to sue for libel…or slander…and win because the bar is lower than for a celebrity, a politician, or a big company, or in this case, a charity.
Justice Thoams wants a more level playing field for those famous people or businesses or groups, hurt by vicious libel ; and he’s right.
Jerry says
The SPLC should be renamed The SMPLC as in the Southern Moral Poverty Law Centre.
gravenimage says
Very witty, Jerry!
James Lincoln says
Perhaps, as a counterweight, a conservative “version” of the Southern Poverty Law Center.