Sunday, February 15, 2015



Hate-filled SPLC apologizes for slur on black Republican

The Southern Poverty Law Center offered an apology of sorts on Thursday to Dr. Ben Carson, a black potential Republican presidential candiidate, for lumping him in with neo-Nazis, skinheads, and Klansmen on its influential 'Extremist Watch' website.

The iconic American civil rights group targeted Carson, a world-renowned retired pediatric neurosurgeon, because he is a Christian who opposes gay marriage.

The SPLC has seen its mission creep from defendng the civil rights of African-Americans to embracing a broader target list that includes 'white nationalists, anti-gay zealots, black separatists, racist skinheads, neo-Confederates' and others.

'In October 2014, we posted an "Extremist File" of Dr. Ben Carson,' the SPLC wrote in a statement on Thursday. 'This week, as we've come under intense criticism for doing so, we've reviewed our profile and have concluded that it did not meet our standards, so we have taken it down and apologize to Dr. Carson for having posted it.'

The mea culpa quickly took on a backhanded quality, however.

'We've also come to the conclusion,' the group added, 'that the question of whether a better-researched profile of Dr. Carson should or should not be included in our "Extremist Files" is taking attention from the fact that Dr. Carson has, in fact, made a number of statements that express views that we believe most people would conclude are extreme,' the group added.

The bulk of the published statement consisted of a list of those quotes.

Carson's attack at the hands of the SPLC was a hot topic of discussion among American conservatives this week as Carson moves closer to announcing a White House run.

'I don't think the left can stand the idea that the next black president might be a Republican,' one U.S. Senate staffer said, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. 'And the SPLC is a left-wing group. Don't forget that.'

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20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Liberalism is a mental disease and they have no shame.

Use the Name, Luke said...

"Extreme" = Holding a view which agrees with nature and has been held by societies 99.9% of the time throughout human history. (The other 0.1% adopted the SPLC's view just before imploding.)

Anonymous said...

The SPLC is itself an extremist group these days but the irony is completely lost on them.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Luke so often accuses others of 'argumentation fallacies' yet now is employing the 'popularity fallacy' no doubt to justify his personal prejudice against homosexuals and/or same-sex marriage.
Once also very popular and accepted as 'natural' was slavery (as in the Old and even the New Testament of the Bible), as were PUBLIC executions up until the 19th Century even in Western countries, not to mention child labor, etc, ad nauseum.
If only we could progress into a kinder and more humanitarian 21st Century, unlike the bigotry of Luke's version of Christianity and the Muslims' of their Islam.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 4:59 AM, are you talking about the kinder and more humanitarian 21st Century where blacks still sell each other into slavery? It would appear your haughtiness is a tad misplaced.

Anonymous said...

2:58 AM How is 4:59 "haughty" to wish for a kinder and more humanitarian time, and didn't say or imply that such a Utopia had yet arrived - obviously. I think you have comprehension problems.

Anonymous said...

Anon 4:59 is projecting his own views of Christianity on Luke and then pronouncing them bigoted. That is called a straw man.

slinky said...

Hey 5:21, yeah so?

Use the Name, Luke said...

"Extremist" is itself a populist based argument. Thus, I was highlighting the extreme irony of a tiny minority using such an argument.

As for "natural", it is impossible to produce a human being without joining the egg from a woman and the sperm from a man, even in the most cutting edge science. You have to be massively extreme to deny reality like that.

Anonymous said...

Luke makes his views on Christianity very clear and doesn't need to be mis-interpreted or straw-manned as 5:21 is making out that 4:59 was doing.
Luke also thinks that sex and sexuality is only about producing babies. It may be for him but not for everyone. Even then Luke is wrong about "cutting edge science" being unable to circumvent the normal egg/sperm combination to develop an embryo.

Anonymous said...

Wasn't Jesus born of a virgin?!

slinky said...

Luke, sez, "As for "natural", it is impossible to produce a human being without joining the egg from a woman and the sperm from a man, even in the most cutting edge science. You have to be massively extreme to deny reality like that."

Really? What about Jesus? Does God have DNA?

Use the Name, Luke said...

By definition, Jesus' birth is not "natural" but "supernatural", "of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural".

"… Luke is wrong about "cutting edge science" being unable to circumvent the normal egg/sperm combination to develop an embryo."

This I gotta see! Put up or shut up.

Anonymous said...

Since only the mother's DNA was contributed, that makes Jesus a clone of Mary. Jesus was female.

Anonymous said...

As for Luke denying what is possible in Nature, yet claiming super-natural explanations: well, to use his own words - "Put up or shut up".

Anonymous said...

If this Luke guy is an honest person, would he kindly clarify if he is actually a Creationist-Christian and/or a literalist re the Bible (in English-translation at least - or WHAT??

Use the Name, Luke said...

The point is "within nature/in accordance with nature" which the anonymous extremist(s) are trying to deflect from. That he/they made an assertion and could not back it up says all that needs to be said.

Note that the arguments being put forth about the virgin birth are self contradictory. The described event is predicated on a being who could create an entire universe and all life out of nothing, but the arguments assume that such a being is somehow incapable of doing far less. As such, those assertions are simply silly and irrelevant. That silliness only serves to highlight the fact that they're intended as a distraction, nothing more.

My point is made. The trolls couldn't answer it. My work here is done.

Anonymous said...

Luke, science backs us up. Magic is your backup. Now, who is silly?

Anonymous said...

Luke did not have his "work done" by simply pre-supposing a supernatural being (so conveniently his own Jesus-god) to explain away everything that's too difficult for Luke to explain away!
Interestingly, the dis-honest Luke doesn't want to admit to being a Creationist. I wonder why?!