Is the SPLC Hypocritical?

Maybe. Or maybe there's a more, eh, existential fear they are facing these days.

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So I heard about everything going on with the SPLC funding hate groups apparently, and I just had a couple thoughts about that because it really is a larger and more inveterate problem than just the SPLC giving money to the people that they say they're trying to fight against. It's not necessarily that they're evil. I mean the actions are evil and that, but let me give you a point where you can understand at least where it's coming from. You may have heard of something called the bouncer's dilemma. And let me just go over what that is for you because it is pertinent in case you never heard of it. So there is a bouncer outside of the bar, you know, the type eight-foot tall arm muscles the size of my head, and I do not have a small head. And they're up there, they're looking tough, they're looking mean. Well, one of them is the biggest, the toughest, the meanest looking. Nobody starts fights while he's there. His employers notice this, but there's kind of two sides to this. On the one hand, they say, Yeah, he is absolutely terrifying to uh anybody who might cause some trouble. But on the other hand, they go, But there ain't been trouble enough here to really need him there. And so he starts getting a hearing about this, and he gets smart. He says, Well, if there ain't enough trouble here, I'm gonna have to start some in order so that I can put it down, in order that they can see that if I do go, there is a particular danger that they will not have the safety that I, by my presence, afforded them. And so the bouncer starts fights every now and again, and he tries to do it on the down low, so that it doesn't look like it's his fault, but he'll just he'll start raising his voice at somebody being a little tity, and it escalates and escalates, and finally, he throws somebody out through a window. And you can say that he's not the one that started the fight, he's just the one that ended it. So you see the dilemma here. He is actually incentivized to keep his place by means of causing the very thing he is meant to end, to stop, or to prevent, in order that he may keep his comfortable existence as an employee there where he is. It is a matter of identity and of life and death. So when I look at the SPLC getting indicted for funding the very groups that they say they're standing against and for apparently supporting the very racism that they take all their worth from fighting, doesn't look to me like a uh doesn't look to me like it's necessarily hypocrisy. So yeah, maybe the SPLC is just completely full of evil hypocrites who love the grift, or maybe, just maybe, they are terrified to death of becoming irrelevant in the one thing they have staked their whole identity on. That ain't good. But I think that's a little closer to how it is. Cheers.