The scandal raises urgent questions about the integrity of the SPLC’s broader work, particularly its influential Hate Map, which began as a tool for tracking armed militias and skinhead gangs. Over time, it expanded to include mainstream conservative and religious organizations such as the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, and the Center for Immigration Studies. In August 2012, a man named Floyd Lee Corkins walked into the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D.C., carrying a gun. A security guard named Leo Johnson stopped him and was shot in the process. Corkins told the FBI he chose his target using the SPLC’s map. The organization never acknowledged what its list had set in motion.
To understand how a once-respected civil rights law firm became what it is now, it helps to step back from the SPLC itself and look at a pattern. In 1984, a former KGB operative named Yuri Bezmenov described what he called the four stages of ideological subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. MORE AT Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come.
To understand how a once-respected civil rights law firm became what it is now, it helps to step back from the SPLC itself and look at a pattern. In 1984, a former KGB operative named Yuri Bezmenov described what he called the four stages of ideological subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. MORE AT Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come.
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