About this episode

The episode discusses the financial growth of the Southern Poverty Law Center and its implications in the context of racial tensions and hate groups.

July 23 SPLC profitable-hate provider The Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, was founded in 1971. It called itself a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. SPLC has found that increasing racial tensions is really profitable. In 2016, SPLC had $51 million. In 2017, that had grown to $133 million. Why? Because of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, which the SPLC funded. It only cost S...

People in this episode

Hosts: George Caylor, Diane Gruber, Steve Putney

Topics covered

• SPLC
• hate groups
• civil rights
• funding
• racial tensions

Keywords

• SPLC
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• hate
• bigotry
• civil rights
• funding
• racial tensions
• Charlottesville

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern Poverty Law Center

Places: Charlottesville

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