Southern Poverty Law Center "Apologizes" To Ben Carson

by JASmius



Evidently the nuclear blast-wave reaction to SPLC's publicly lumping Dr. Carson in with neo-Nazis and white supremacists was at least enough to convince them to seek some measure of PR cover from the resulting fallout:

Under intense scrutiny after it was revealed that the civil rights organization had lumped Carson in with the likes of KKK members and other zealots on its “extremist watch list,” the SPLC announced on Wednesday that it was scrubbing Carson’s name.

The SPLC placed Carson on the list in October, but the designation was not widely noticed until last week…

Carson’s "sin," according to the SPLC, were statements he’s made in public venues such as “Marriage is between a man and a woman; It’s a well-established pillar of society.”

While some of Carson’s comments have attracted attention — including his comparison between the current U.S. regime to Nazi Germany — few onlookers have considered him an extremist.

In its statement announcing the reversal, the SPLC said that Carson’s positions did not meet the criteria necessary for its extremist designation.

In other words, their smear of Dr. Carson didn't get "widely noticed until last week".  Make no mistake, my brothers and sisters, they still consider him to be "extreme," and a "homophobe," and an "Uncle Tom".  They simply miscalculated the chances of their getting away with it without, well, blowback.  This is the Age of the One, the Left "won" the two-plus century "national debate" in 2008, and there wasn't supposed to be any "opposition," loyal or otherwise, anymore.  This week, SPLC found out differently, the hard way.

Just as that "intense scrutiny" reveals for all to see that the "civil rights" organization isn't remotely about civil rights, but about orthodoxy hard-left Marxist extremism.  Black racists are radical feminists are greenstremist zealots are Lavender Lobbyists or Occupiers.  They're all the same: Barack Obama's Sturmabteilung.

Their "apology" is ersatz and worthless.  Were I Dr. Carson, I would greet it with an icy silence.  After all, what does collaborating in an enemy's phony attempt to make amends for its own attempt at damage control gain the good doctor?  Let them roast in their own propaganda spit, I say.