Michael Knowles

Maybe it was a honeypot operation.

Well, this has been Matt's point for a while because Matt's been a big target of the SPLC.

If you're going to be the target, you may as well be the person who's getting paid.

But it does demonstrate once and for all that for so many of these 501c3s, they have to generate the fentanyl in order to fund the methadone clinic.

There's just...

there's not enough racism in America in order for them to raise money to fight racism.

So what they could do is they can subsidize the racism in order to get their donors to fight the racism.

And you see this over and over and over in the nonprofit space.

The problem is, if you solve the problem of racism, what do you do?

You can either go out of business or you can find the next thing to raise money off of.

Or I guess you can just go spend $3 million funding the KKK so that you can fight the KKK.

It actually is pretty wonderful.

For those donors, it's sort of that meme from the

from the last Gaza war, where you would see the Hamas rockets go up, and then the Israeli Iron Dome go up, and it would say, my money, somehow also my money.

And it's like that, I guess, for the people who are funding the SPLC.

It's like, my money, the white supremacists, also somehow my money, is like fighting the white supremacists.

There are a couple of details that sort of jumped out at me in this story that were pretty astonishing.

One is that the SPLC listed one of the people it was funding on its hate site.

So if that person was supposed to be just an informant giving information, would you list that person on the hate site while simultaneously funding the person?

Because you're inherently lying either to the public or to your donors or both.