>>2790213>Do you think David Duke is on there payroll? That wouldn't surprise me or the government payroll, back when I actually tried to "monitor" the far right, there was some talk to avoid Duke for some shady reason.
>>2790143>What do they have to gain by funding right wing extremist groups? I could understand if the SPLC where pocketing the money to enrich the higher ups of the organization.The SPLC was pocketing money to enrich the higher ups yeah. I think they could get information about right-wing groups by paying informants which they'd publish, but the SPLC was founded by Morris Dees who was an Alabama lawyer who made millions from a direct-mail marketing business back in the 1960s and then went into civil rights law. From there he built up the SPLC into an organization that bankrupted far-right groups in civil suits after they screwed up (which happens a lot), but they made most of their money by aggressively seeking donations from aging liberals (also celebrities) who they'd try to scare the bejesus out of. Dees was eventually forced out by the SPLC's board for various things, toxic workplace stuff, sexual harassment. There was a weird dialectic between the SPLC and the hate groups they arrayed themselves against, because if the hate groups went away then the SPLC would also go out of business.