About this episode

This episode explores the complexities of the Southern Poverty Law Center and its relationship with the issues it addresses.

Send Jim a Topic to Explore The Southern Poverty Law Center. This one’s simple. A story comes out… and you read it once. Then twice. And at some point you stop and think: “Wait… is this real?” In this short episode, we walk through one pattern: What it looks like when the thing fighting a problem… might also depend on that problem continuing. No conclusions. Just something to notice. Use code THINKFIRST for 20% off this month at cozyearth.com And if you’ve got a “cuddle bubble” ...

People in this episode

Host: Jim Detjen

Topics covered

• hate
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• social issues
• philosophy
• commentary

Keywords

• SPLC
• hate
• social justice
• philosophy
• commentary

Sponsors

Cozy Earth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern Poverty Law Center

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