[Peace-discuss] SPLC

[C G Estabrook]

“Publish and be damned!” seems to me right in such matters. I don’t think legal suppression is right even for scurrilous political views. 

But it seems worthwhile to demand an apology like this. 

Why, who could imagine that the wretched SPLC had "any intention to suggest that any of them* are white supremacists, fascists, and/or anti-Semites, that they hold such views, or that they are engaged in a conspiracy with the Russian government to promote such views or otherwise”?!

—CGE
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*  Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Tim Pool, Rania Khalek, and Brian Becker


> On Mar 15, 2018, at 12:42 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> In spite of SPLC's deserved bad reputation per Cockburn etc., those being slandered by it (Blumenthal, Khalek etc.) are deferring to its more common liberal reputation as a civil rights organization. That may be a tactical move on their part.
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> Alexander Reid Ross, the culprit, has published on Counterpunch and been interviewed by Eric Draitser on their podcast. Similarly, Louis Proyect has attacked Blumenthal etc. on Counterpunch last weekend, and continues to do so during this week on his blog.
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> So continues the scare campaign against "red-brown" alliances as an aspect of the antiwar movement, promoted by those supporting intensified U.S. intervention in Syria, including the fellow who debated Khalek on TRNN earlier this week, as shown also on AoTA.
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> It can also be questioned whether legal suppression is an appropriate tactic in this case.
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> DG
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> DG
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> DG
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:03 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
> https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment <https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/09/update-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment>
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> splcenter.org <http://splcenter.org/>
> Explanation and apology: The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment
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> March 14, 2018 Facebook Twitter
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> On March 9, 2018, we posted an article on our Hatewatch blog entitled “The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment.”
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> Shortly after its publication, we received complaints registered by or on behalf of several journalists mentioned in the article that it falsely described one or another of them as white supremacists, fascists, and/or anti-Semites, and falsely accused them of engaging in a conspiracy with the Putin regime to promote such views. Because neither we nor the article’s author intended to make any such accusations, we took it down while we re-examined its contents.
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> That re-examination has caused us to conclude that, while the intent of the article, which we thought was clear at the time of publication, was to show only that individuals on the left share some policy views with respect to multipolarism that are also held by the far right and/or appear on far-right media and conferences advocating them, the article did not make that point as clearly as it could or should have.
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> Accordingly, we have decided not to re-post it. In addition, we extend a sincere apology to those who believe they have been falsely described in it, including Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Tim Pool, Rania Khalek, and Brian Becker, and disclaim, as clearly as we can, any intention to suggest that any of them are white supremacists, fascists, and/or anti-Semites, that they hold such views, or that they are engaged in a conspiracy with the Russian government to promote such views or otherwise.
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