November 2, 2009

OWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Dissent is Hate – on “hate”, the SPLC and the need for a shower – Mark Krikorian

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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Dissent is Hate.

Hate, Hate Everywhere
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, October 28, 2009
http://cis.org/node/1520

Excerpt:

I feel like taking a shower after writing about the Southern Poverty Law Center, but for some reason it’s taken seriously by the media and even government agencies, so I can’t avoid it. A couple examples this week of how ludicrous the SPLC’s charges of ‘hate’ are. James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal wrote ‘In Defense of Carol Swain’ in reaction to the SPLC smear-meister Mark Potok’s claim that ‘Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists.’ Taranto does a good job of assessing the issue at hand, especially remarkable from the WSJ given the fact that Carol is an immigration restrictionist, though that’s not what was at issue. I’ll add only that I know Carol, a black woman who went from being a teenage mom and high-school dropout to earning a PhD and teaching at Vanderbilt, and the very idea that she’s an ‘apologist for white supremacists’ is so outlandish, not to mention scurrilous, as to render whoever makes such a claim not credible on anything else. How can any self-respecting reporter ever quote Mark Potok again on anything?

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