{"id":31684,"date":"2017-10-04T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31684"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:11:09","slug":"sanity-occasionally-happens-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31684","title":{"rendered":"Sanity Occasionally Happens In Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Caller<\/a> Reported that the Department of Defense<\/a> has cut its ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (SPLC). Previously the SPLC was regarded as a source when identifying hate groups. Unfortunately, the SPLC has degenerated into a liberal mouthpiece citing any conservative group that supports traditional values as a hate group.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Brian J. Field, assistant U.S. attorney from the Civil Division, stated that the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity<\/a> removed any and all references to the SPLC in training materials used by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute<\/a> (DEOMI), in an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation from the Department of Justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The DEOMI is a DOD school founded to fight segregation and inequality<\/a> that teaches courses in racial, gender and religious equality, among other subject areas like equal opportunity and pluralism. The courses are available to DOD civilians and service members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The Pentagon\u2019s decision to terminate its relationship with the SPLC comes at a time when the group has under major fire from conservative organizations, particularly in the form of lawsuits. D. James Kennedy<\/a> Ministries, a Christian ministry from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<\/a>, recently sued the SPLC after being labeled a hate group<\/a>. The SPLC has also faced criticism from liberals. In late August, anti-Muslim extremism activist and feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali argued in The New York Times<\/a> that \u201cthe S.P.L.C. is an organization that has lost its way, smearing people who are fighting for liberty and turning a blind eye to an ideology and political movement that has much in common with Nazism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Ali, corporations and donors in Hollywood \u201cneed to find more trustworthy and deserving partners to work with than the SPLC.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notably, the Pentagon<\/a> is not the only federal agency to drop the SPLC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In February, The Daily Caller News Foundation published<\/a> an exclusive piece indicating that the FBI, which formerly used the SPLC as a \u201chate crimes resource,\u201d has also been distancing itself from the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would be nice to have an unbiased source to keep track of hate groups, but I am not convinced that is possible. We have had the obvious hate groups with us for a long time–white supremacists, black panthers, and others. It is time simply to marginalize these groups and begin to unite as a country. Hopefully this is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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