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‘Hate awareness’ SPLC spread hate to spur donations, and the larger left didn’t care

Wow: It seems the Southern Poverty Law Center — a direct-mail fund-raising mill posing as a civil rights group — paid millions to racist “extremists” to spread hate that the SPLC then cited as it called for donations.

The Justice Department indicted the SPLC on wire-fraud charges Tuesday, saying the outfit has been “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” and even paying a “field source” to help organize the infamous 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally — the event that became ground zero for Democratic messaging about President Donald Trump’s alleged praise for Nazis as “fine people.”

It allegedly paid this “field source” more than a quarter-million dollars over eight years to post racist memes and gin up support for extremist........

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