Epoch Times: Online retail giant Amazon should stop using the embattled Southern Poverty Law Center’s ideologically biased “hate group” list to decide which charities qualify to receive donations under its AmazonSmile program, a consumer group says.
AmazonSmile allows Amazon shoppers to help charities of their choice by donating 0.5 percent of the price of any purchase. The money passes through the Seattle-based AmazonSmile Foundation, which, according to its 2015 IRS filing, disbursed just under $13 million that year for charitable purposes.
Hate-group designations made by the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center are often hotly contested by groups so labeled. Critics say the idea of the “hate group” itself is nebulous and difficult to define and therefore open to abuse. The SPLC has suffered internal turmoil lately as its founder, Morris Dees, and its president, Richard Cohen, were forced out amid allegations of sexual improprieties, racial discrimination, and a hostile work environment for its employees. more here
The SPLC is a hate group.
My Rule of Thumb: if Southern Poverty (which is very wealthy) denigrates an organization, that same organization is added to my Fav list.
I wonder how much shakedown Danegeld that Amazon pays the SPLC to stay off the shit-list. Using the list is a nice gesture, but the SPLC didn’t get to half a billion dollars in assets on the back of nice gestures.
I’ve avoided purchasing anything from Amazon for quite some time now, there was just a bad feel about them to me even before all the current stuff started coming out.
FWIW, I understand they’re starting to have Muslim problems now, in spite of everything they have done to cater to them.
@Anonymous – ‘in spite of’???
I guess that could be literally true.
This is all on bezos. Just look at that vile rag of his, the washington post.
That monkey branching thot he brought home to is karma in action.
Nothing at Amazon that I can’t get elsewhere, usually cheaper within 5 minutes online.
Plus I think Bezos is an asshole, so there’s that.