Did you know that “white Christian supremacy” is about to conquer America?
The very idea is absurd, you say? Why, you only think that because you haven’t read the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Year in Hate and Extremism,” out Thursday.
You see, while most of America understands that Donald Trump won a second term because the forces manipulating the Biden White House abused the government to force woke ideology on the American people—especially by opening the border and pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion—the SPLC is laser-focused on demonizing everyone who disagrees with that unpopular woke agenda.
The propaganda it churns out in service of this narrative is unintentionally hilarious.
For instance, SPLC admits that there were fewer “hate groups” and “anti-government extremist groups” in 2024 than there were in 2023, but it assures readers still to worry—the hateful movement of “white Christian supremacy” is even more dangerous now, because it has entered the halls of power.
“After years of courting politicians and chasing power, hard-right groups are now fully infiltrating our politics and enacting their dangerous ideology into law,” SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang said while releasing the report.
“Extremists at all levels of government are using cruelty, chaos and constant attacks on communities and our democracy to make us feel powerless,” she added. “We cannot surrender to fear. It is up to all of us to organize against the forces of hate and tyranny.”
What’s the biggest threat to democracy? Why, the majority of voters who selected Donald Trump, of course! The SPLC doesn’t say that exactly, but it does suggest that the backlash to the 10 million illegal aliens who entered the country under President Joe Biden is rooted only in “hate.”
‘White Christian Supremacy’
As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC made a name for itself by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy. Now, it trades on that history by publishing a “hate map” plotting “hate groups” and “anti-government extremist groups” across the country.
This map includes mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits, along with KKK chapters. The implication couldn’t be clearer: the SPLC’s ideological opponents are driven by the same hate that inspired the Klan. In fact, the SPLC’s reports say the map reveals the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.”
The most recent report melds “white supremacy” with the specter of Christians taking power. It attacks Turning Point USA for “exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack.”
The most revealing section comes near the beginning of the full report, when the SPLC strains to connect opposition to illegal immigration to racism, fascism, and theocracy.
The SPLC claims that “a growing wave of white nationalism … motivated by theocratic beliefs and false claims of ‘Christian persecution’ and ‘white genocide’ … seeks to dominate social, cultural and political life in the United States and craft a Christian, fascist state in its own image.”
Of course, the idea that “white Christian supremacy” somehow existed in the same 2024 that saw the Biden White House celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday is laughable, but the SPLC still enjoys too much clout on the Left and in the legacy media. As I exposed in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” the SPLC had tremendous access to the Biden White House and the Justice Department.
The Associated Press article on the SPLC’s report does note that conservatives criticize the SPLC as biased, but it does not mention the SPLC’s many scandals. Among others, the SPLC has faced a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led it to fire its co-founder in 2019; claims from a former employee that the “hate” accusations are a “highly profitable scam”; accusations of union-busting following a round of layoffs; defamation lawsuits; and a terrorist attack inspired by the “hate map.”
The Terror Attack
It seems rather ironic for the SPLC to claim Christian persecution isn’t happening, when the SPLC is itself one of the major drivers of the movement trying to exile conservative Christians from the public square.
The SPLC report on “white genocide” aims its fire at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C. The SPLC has long falsely claimed that the council demonizes LGBTQ people by connecting homosexuality with pedophilia.
A terrorist in 2012 used the SPLC’s “hate map”—which includes the council as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group”—to target the Christian group for a mass shooting. A brave employee foiled the attack, but the terrorist said he planned to slaughter everyone in the building. The SPLC condemned the attack, but has kept the council on the “hate map” ever since.
The SPLC’s Insane Claims on Immigration
Many of the SPLC’s complaints about the Family Research Council’s rhetoric on immigration also apply to most conservative nonprofits and news outlets throughout 2024.
Among other things, the SPLC condemns the council for covering Laken Riley’s tragic death at the hands of an illegal alien criminal—whom the SPLC merely described as “an undocumented immigrant.” The SPLC faulted the council for having “leapt on Riley’s tragic death … much like how hate and extremist groups mischaracterize crime statistics and co-opt tragedies to claim Black and Brown people disproportionately commit violent crimes.”
This framing is impressively obtuse. The outrage isn’t just that Jose Antonio Ibarra lacked documentation. Federal authorities under Biden released him on parole, and then he went on to face charges of child endangerment in New York City—where he again got released—and got arrested for shoplifting in Georgia—and again released—before committing the murder. This case is so obviously a failure of federal law enforcement that Democrats joined Republicans in voting for a reform bearing Laken Riley’s name.
The case galvanized support for Trump, and arguably played a large role in the election. Are we really supposed to believe that all of this has more to do with “white supremacy” than just outrage over illegal immigration?
It can’t be that Americans were actually concerned about Venezuelan gangs going door to door with AK-47s in Aurora, Colorado. It can’t be that Americans don’t like to see thousands of young people killed by Fentanyl overdoses, which crossed the effectively open border. It can’t be that Americans support legal immigration but take a dislike to aliens brazenly violating our laws.
No, the only reason to oppose the SPLC’s preferred border policies is hate, no matter how bad the border crisis becomes.
After all the fearmongering, the SPLC proceeds to add a little disclaimer. You see, the Family Research Council may not be calling the shots in the Trump administration, in part because the council’s president criticized the Republican National Committee platform. So even the SPLC’s own report may suggest that the attacks on the Family Research Council are a bit gratuitous.
The SPLC’s Role
The SPLC acts as an enforcer of the Left’s stifling orthodoxy, branding as “hateful” any nonprofit that opposes its agenda. Its targets include the conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, the parental rights group Moms for Liberty, or the medical watchdog group Do No Harm. Even Gays Against Groomers is on the map as an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” even though its members identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual.
If the Left returns to power after Trump, expect the SPLC to again have a seat at the table. That’s why it’s important to repeatedly expose its insane propaganda and its history of scandals.
