Erin Reed / Anthony Reed II / @ErinInTheMorn / @ErinInTheMorning / @ErinInTheNight / _supernovasky_ / beholderseye / realitybias / AnonymousRabbit - post-op transbian Twitter/TikTok "activist" with bad fashion, giant Reddit tattoo. Former drug dealer with felony. Married to Zooey Simone Zephyr / Zachary Todd Raasch.

[Sneedenhagen Chew]

Leaked CCTV footage from the SPLC meetings ahead of this presser:

 

[Sarn’t]

I miss that lil nigger so much that my eyes try to read Southern Poverty Call Center whenever SPLC is brought up.

 

[AnOminous]

Tony didn't bother reading the methodoly before misleading his flock of cross dresing morons.

Funny it doesn't say which politicians. Frankly, troons are a distraction from anything actually relevant because they're a tiny group of freaks completely insignificant to reality at large, other than people directly affected by them, like women in prison getting raped by male troons.

 

[wenttobermuda]

Once upon a time, the SPLC did good work, regardless of their ulterior motives. Going after the KKK and Aryan Nations made America a better place. It also made Morris Dees wealthy. There was always a tension between the SPLC's substantive work and their fundraising. In recent years, the latter has completely swallowed the former.

These days, they get nothing meaningful done. They have forfeited their credibility. Dees himself has been discredited and shamed. And yet, they are still taken seriously by the press?

Years ago, I read an article by a former SPLC goober who described his experience working there around Y2k. One line stuck with me: the SPLC has an uncanny knack for turning idealists into cynics. I suspect that by labeling those who recognize the reality of biological sex and oppose mutilating children "HATE GROUPS!" they're contiing that tradition.

Fuck the SPLC. Just because they fought cartoonishly evil villains a generation or two ago doesn't mean they have anything to say about the world today.

 

[mister fireworks]

I agree with Tony in the sense that I believe that liberal politicians are pushing this tranny shit as a way to keep their voters occupied with fighting against the evil nazi right wing or whatever instead of questioning why the biden admin has been a bigger shitshow than trump. It gives them something to feel morally superior about- the idea that they are standing up for some sort of persecuted group. Its gonna be so funny in like 10 years when a huge percentage of the kids who got hormones kill themselves/come out against it publicly and talk about how much it ruined their lives.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Once upon a time, the SPLC did good work, regardless of their ulterior motives. Going after the KKK and Aryan Nations made America a better place. It also made Morris Dees wealthy. There was always a tension between the SPLC's substantive work and their fundraising. In recent years, the latter has completely swallowed the former.

These days, they get nothing meaningful done. They have forfeited their credibility. Dees himself has been discredited and shamed. And yet, they are still taken seriously by the press?

Years ago, I read an article by a former SPLC goober who described his experience working there around Y2k. One line stuck with me: the SPLC has an uncanny knack for turning idealists into cynics. I suspect that by labeling those who recognize the reality of biological sex and oppose mutilating children "HATE GROUPS!" they're contiing that tradition.

Fuck the SPLC. Just because they fought cartoonishly evil villains a generation or two ago doesn't mean they have anything to say about the world today.

I think the reason these organizations (aclu, naacp, splc, eff (ish)) are losing the plot is because they've been so successful in reducing the behavior they were created to call out.

The KKK is all but toothless, general racism is far less prevalent than it was even 20 years ago, personal freedoms have never been more free than recently, homos are accepted or at least tolerated in almost all of the US these days.

It's basically time to close up shop. Well done, mission accomplished (GWB enters the chat)! But the people in charge have become addicted to the cynicism - and the donations, which is probably the real issue. But donations are drying up, so what do they do? Create issues that don't really exist, spin up the outrage machine, grasp at straws, and cling to their phony baloney jobs.

 

[Not Dr. Evil]

I think the reason these organizations (aclu, naacp, splc, eff (ish)) are losing the plot is because they've been so successful in reducing the behavior they were created to call out.

Exactly this. I remember thinking to myself the day Obergefell was announced that "whelp, the troons are going to be the next victim group now that the gay rights movement demand have been met. "

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

I think the reason these organizations (aclu, naacp, splc, eff (ish)) are losing the plot is because they've been so successful in reducing the behavior they were created to call out.

You can add GLAAD to that list – they're pretty much "all trans, all the time" now, despite transgender not even being in the organization's name.

 

[Not Dr. Evil]

Did Tony realize he was promoting a TERF poll in his thread today?

 

[luigismanslave]

Did Tony realize he was promoting a TERF poll in his thread today?

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[AirdropShitposts]

That teen should not have been assaulted. But he did escalate the suitation. I'm not saying it's his fault, just that he didn't help himself there. Still, male on male violence is a problem for men to solve. Women are not shields for violent men.

Nice try, fash, but that girl was attacked because of unchecked transphobic hate speech masquerading as robust science like spread by Hillary Cass and Jesse Singal.

 

[Coo Coo Bird]

Once upon a time, the SPLC did good work, regardless of their ulterior motives. Going after the KKK and Aryan Nations made America a better place. It also made Morris Dees wealthy. There was always a tension between the SPLC's substantive work and their fundraising. In recent years, the latter has completely swallowed the former.

These days, they get nothing meaningful done. They have forfeited their credibility. Dees himself has been discredited and shamed. And yet, they are still taken seriously by the press?

Years ago, I read an article by a former SPLC goober who described his experience working there around Y2k. One line stuck with me: the SPLC has an uncanny knack for turning idealists into cynics. I suspect that by labeling those who recognize the reality of biological sex and oppose mutilating children "HATE GROUPS!" they're contiing that tradition.

Fuck the SPLC. Just because they fought cartoonishly evil villains a generation or two ago doesn't mean they have anything to say about the world today.

Morris Dees started SPLC in the 70s, long after the major civil rights battles had been fought. They did a handful of actual civil rights cases, then struck gold in the 80's when they started suing white power groups. They were suing handfuls of guys that met in abandoned warehouses and had no money, but they were great for publicity campaigns to scare Boomers into giving them donations.

SPLC co-founder Dees, an Alabama native, has an unconventional background for a self-styled civil rights icon. The son of a cotton farmer, his childhood nickname was Bubba. As a young man, Dees supported politicians such as future Alabama governor George C. Wallace (whom Dees calls “my onetime hero”) and even served as state campaign manager for segregationist attorney general candidate MacDonald Gallion.

Dees graduated from the University of Alabama law school in 1960. The next year, he defended a Klan member, Claude Henley, accused of attacking Freedom Riders. The case was heard in federal court before Judge Frank M. Johnson, the famed civil rights pioneer. Dees says that he managed to get his client off, for a fee of $5,000 (paid by the Klan and the White Citizens’ Council), though a Life photo showed Henley beating up a television reporter during the incident in question. In his vainglorious 1991 memoir, A Season for Justice (reissued in 2001 as A Lawyer’s Journey), Dees described the Henley case as a personal epiphany regarding civil rights, though a decade passed before he helped found the SPLC. Dees’ primary contribution to civil rights was suing to force the Birmingham YMCA—a private organization—to desegregate in 1969.

During the 1960s, Dees veered left, got involved with the American Civil Liberties Union, and helped finance the presidential campaigns of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Ted Kennedy. Though he has long promoted himself as a successful trial lawyer, Dees made his fortune in publishing.

Dees’s original business partner, Millard Fuller, recalls that “Morris and I . . . shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money. We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich.” Their path to prosperity was marketing cookbooks and similar fare. Dees then used his direct-mail expertise to help raise money for McGovern’s presidential campaign. When the South Dakota senator was defeated, Dees brought to the SPLC a donor list containing the names of nearly 700,000 McGovern supporters, providing the basis for the organization’s lucrative direct-mail program.

In its early years, SPLC focused on issues relevant to “Southern poverty,” primarily performing pro bono legal services, such as death-penalty appeals and suing to desegregate the all-white Alabama State Troopers. By the 1980s, the SPLC’s focus had shifted to fighting easily sensationalized bogeymen such as the KKK and neo-Nazi groups, despite those groups’ dwindling membership and scant political influence.

In 1984, Dees brought a highly publicized lawsuit against the United Klans of America (UKA) in Mobile, Alabama on behalf of Beulah Mae Donald, whose son had been murdered in 1981 by two UKA thugs. In 1987, years after the perpetrators were convicted and sentenced, Dees obtained a much-hyped $7 million judgment against the UKA, downplaying the fact that the actual recovery against the impecunious group amounted only to about $50,000. The UKA case proved a fundraising goldmine, though: the SPLC raked in $9 million from direct-mail solicitations.

The die was cast; henceforth, the SPLC would pursue essentially meaningless but headline-grabbing cases, exploiting its uncollectible verdicts through sensational fundraising appeals that generated massive donations. One disgruntled former SPLC attorney complained that “[Dees] was on the Klan kick because it was such an easy target—easy to beat in court, easy to raise big money on.” The SPLC’s legal staff was appalled by the cynical change of direction. Journalist Ken Silverstein reported in Harper’s that “in 1986, the Center’s entire legal staff quit in protest of Dees’s refusal to address issues—such as homelessness, voter registration, and affirmative action—that they considered far more pertinent to poor minorities, if far less marketable to affluent benefactors, than fighting the KKK.”

In a replay of the civil case against the UKA, the SPLC would go on to bring high-profile lawsuits against other Klan groups and similar fringe organizations, such as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in Portland, Oregon, and the Aryan Nations in Idaho, typically in cases alleging that associates of the organizations who committed violent acts were operating directly as representatives of the racist groups. These grandstanding lawsuits were mismatches, and the cash-strapped associations—lacking resources to defend themselves—were routinely routed by the SPLC’s well-funded legal team. In his memoir, Dees gloats that, when the SPLC sued WAR, its president, Tom Metzger—a TV repairman—chose to represent himself at trial, with predictable results. The SPLC won a $12.5 million jury verdict against WAR, and against Metzger personally. Dees boasts that “We took away Metzger’s house. . . . Back home we call that cleaning somebody’s plow.”

A Demagogic Bully

One of the guys they sued literally just said racist stuff, there was no evidence linking him to the crime. Didn't matter, it was a civil case and not a criminal case, the man was too poor to afford a lawyer and lost his house.

Similarly, a $12.5 million judgment that the SPLC won in Oregon in 1990 against Tom Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon who later led a group called the White Aryan Resistance, over the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by three skinheads in 1988, remains largely a paper victory. Furthermore, even some civil libertarians were troubled by the SPLC’s legal strategy, which was predicated on the theory that Metzger and his son were responsible for the homicide because they had made incendiary racist statements that inspired the skinheads to commit the crime. The ACLU, for example, filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the Metzgers’ statements were protected by the First Amendment’s free-speech guarantees and that the father and son should have been held liable only if it could be proved that they had intentionally provoked the skinheads’ violence.

King of Fearmongers

Even liberals hate them;

This leads to yet another SPLC irony: Its severest critics aren’t on the conservative right (although the Federation for American Immigration Reform, another “hate group” on the SPLC’s list, has done its fair share of complaining), but on the progressive left. It may come as a surprise to learn that one of the most vituperative of all the critics was the recently deceased Alexander Cockburn, columnist for the Nation and the leftist webzine CounterPunch. In a 2009 article for CounterPunch titled “King of the Hate Business,” Cockburn castigated Dees and the SPLC for using the 2008 election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president as yet another wringer for squeezing out direct-mail donations from “trembling liberals” by painting an apocalyptic picture of “millions of [anti-Obama] extremists primed to march down Main Street draped in Klan robes, a copy of Mein Kampf tucked under one arm and a Bible under the other.” Cockburn continued: “Ever since 1971 U.S. Postal Service mailbags have bulged with Dees’ fundraising letters, scaring dollars out of the pockets of trembling liberals aghast at his lurid depictions of hate-sodden America, in dire need of legal confrontation by the SPLC.”

Cockburn was following on the heels of Ken Silverstein, who in 2000 wrote an article for the reliably liberal Harper’s magazine titled “The Church of Morris Dees.” Silverstein accused the SPLC of manufacturing connections between the “hate groups” that it highlighted in its numerous mailings—back then the groups on the SPLC list tended to be mostly fringe militia organizations—and the Columbine-style school shootings and a wave of black-church arsons during the 1990s that were a staple of the SPLC’s direct-mail panic pleas. “Horrifying as such incidents are, hate groups commit almost no violence,” Silverstein wrote. “More than 95 percent of all ‘hate crimes,’ including most of the incidents SPLC letters cite (bombings, church burnings, school shootings), are perpetrated by ‘lone wolves.’ Even Timothy McVeigh [perpetrator of the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people], subject of one of the most extensive investigations in the FBI’s history—and one of the most extensive direct-mail campaigns in the SPLC’s—was never credibly linked to any militia organization.”

Silverstein followed up with more of the same in a 2007 blog post for Harper’s: “What [the SPLC] does best .  .  . is to raise obscene amounts of money by hyping fears about the power of [right-wing fringe] groups; hence the SPLC has become the nation’s richest ‘civil rights’ organization.” In 2001 JoAnn Wypijewski wrote in the Nation: “Why the [SPLC] continues to keep ‘Poverty’ (or even ‘Law’) in its name can be ascribed only to nostalgia or a cynical understanding of the marketing possibilities in class guilt.” Silverstein had already noted in his 2000 Harper’s article that “most SPLC donors are white.”

What has infuriated the SPLC’s liberal critics is their suspicion that Morris Dees has used the SPLC primarily as a fundraising machine fueled by his direct-mail talents that generates a nice living for himself (the SPLC’s 2010 tax filing lists a compensation package of $345,000 for him as the organization’s chief trial counsel and highest-paid employee) and a handful of other high ranking SPLC officials plus luxurious offices and perks, but that does relatively little in the way of providing the legal services to poor people that its name implies.

CharityWatch (formerly the American Institute of Philanthropy), an independent organization that monitors and rates leading nonprofits for their fundraising efficiency, has consistently given the SPLC its lowest grade of “F” (i.e., “poor”) for its stockpiling of assets far beyond what CharityWatch deems a reasonable reserve (three years’ worth of operating expenses) to tide it over during donation-lean years. But even if the SPLC weren’t sitting on an unspent $256 million, according to CharityWatch, it would still be a mediocre (“C+”) performer among nonprofits. The SPLC’s 2011 tax filing reveals that the organization raised a total of $38.5 million from its donors that year but spent only $24.9 million on “program services,” with the rest going to salaries, overhead, and fundraising. And even that 67 percent figure is somewhat inflated, according to CharityWatch, which notes that the SPLC takes advantage of an accounting rule that permits nonprofits to count some of their fundraising expenses as “public education” if, for example, a mailer contains an informational component. CharityWatch, ignoring that accounting rule, maintains that only 60 percent—about $19 million—went to program services during the year in question. The SPLC’s 2011 tax return reveals that the organization spent $1.6 million (aside from salaries) on litigation-related costs that year, in contrast to the $7.8 million it spent on “professional fundraising services,” “postage and shipping cost,” “printing & lettershop,” and “other development cost.”

King of Fearmongers

Morris Dees was an opportunistic weasel, and SPLC was always a grift. Its main value now is in slandering opponents- they declare something a hate group, the mainstream media gets to discredit an opponent, they get donations.

 

[Not Dr. Evil]

What qualifies you two troons to make this claim? What evidentiary basis do you troons have it. You denial of your on raging untreated mental illness that everyone outside the hug box can see is also concerning.

Tony and Vanessa are freaking out over criticism of the myth of "troon joy."

 

[Haram-Habibi]

The only time I've ever seen anything resembling "joy" from these freaks is when they are fresh outta surgery, and tripping balls on opioids for pain relief.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

The only time I've ever seen anything resembling "joy" from these freaks is when they are fresh outta surgery, and tripping balls on opioids for pain relief.

I can believe there's a form of religious ecstasy that comes from everyone cheering you on. External validation feels good. Especially when you have mental illness or adhd/autism, because you've internalized the "you're a fucked up freak" message society gives people who are different. Feeling like people accept you is powerful stuff. There's a reason even smart people fall for cults.

I can even believe that not all of that religious ecstasy is sexual, although the majority is, at least for men.

But joy it is not. I believe that in order to be joyful you must first be content with yourself and your lot in life. Trannies are definitely not content with themselves, if they were they wouldn't have the need to modify their bodies in unnatural ways. A person with a wierd piercing or a tattoo can be content with themselves, but cutting off body parts? Taking cross-sex hormones because you're unhappy with your body? No. I don't believe it.

 

[AnOminous]

One of the guys they sued literally just said racist stuff, there was no evidence linking him to the crime. Didn't matter, it was a civil case and not a criminal case, the man was too poor to afford a lawyer and lost his house.

Incidentally Tom Metzger was probably the writer of the A. Wyatt Mann cartoons (although Nick Bougas was the artist). So far as I can tell, Bougas isn't even a racist, although he's friends with Metzger.

 

[a hapless toad]

Incidentally Tom Metzger was probably the writer of the A. Wyatt Mann cartoons (although Nick Bougas was the artist). So far as I can tell, Bougas isn't even a racist, although he's friends with Metzger.

Bougas even liked trannies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goddess_Bunny

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

I think the reason these organizations (aclu, naacp, splc, eff (ish)) are losing the plot is because they've been so successful in reducing the behavior they were created to call out.

The KKK is all but toothless, general racism is far less prevalent than it was even 20 years ago, personal freedoms have never been more free than recently, homos are accepted or at least tolerated in almost all of the US these days.

It's basically time to close up shop. Well done, mission accomplished (GWB enters the chat)! But the people in charge have become addicted to the cynicism - and the donations, which is probably the real issue. But donations are drying up, so what do they do? Create issues that don't really exist, spin up the outrage machine, grasp at straws, and cling to their phony baloney jobs.

Veering off-topic, but this is something I agree with because the bolded really sums up the culture wars, IMO.

For all said culture war crap, when one spends any significant time offline in a relatively normal area, they really do notice the vast amount of people are actually fucking decent. The gender spergouts we see on the farms feel nonexistent. The racial reckonings seem like a thing of the past if you just act polite to anyone who isn't acting rude. People remember to hold back extremist opinions... but it pays forward/back because then they can reach a compromising middle.

But society's become so terminally online it seems everyone's forgotten that. Go ahead and go on twitter or some other social media and see (X) minority being exactly the -ist chauvinists they hate (X) majority or "oppressor" for, versus how fast they'd be (rightly) punched in the face if they said that crap in real life, but because they can't it just lowers sympathy that much more for them. But society can't quite unplug yet because the internet's taking over not just entertainment, not just the economy, but too much regular communication methods and it all intertwines with one another (witness the lamentations of the death of "the third place" outside home and work as an area to socialize in). Bitch-ass weak men like Tony thrive in this because everyone's struggling to make connections or ends meet, they realize how much institutions have crumbled and can't trust them anymore, yet still have empathy for those who really may be suffering worse than they because again they're actually decent fucking people...

....and Tony is taking advantage of that and the strides society has made since pre-internet days despite troons really having no qualities that have been historically persecuted (maleness, white skin, etc.). Insidious, really, when you think about it...

 

[AirdropShitposts]

What qualifies you two troons to make this claim? What evidentiary basis do you troons have it. You denial of your on raging untreated mental illness that everyone outside the hug box can see is also concerning.

You really want to play this game Vanessa and Tony? Because we can play this game.

For all said culture war crap, when one spends any significant time offline in a relatively normal area, they really do notice the vast amount of people are actually fucking decent. The gender spergouts we see on the farms feel nonexistent. The racial reckonings seem like a thing of the past if you just act polite to anyone who isn't acting rude. People remember to hold back extremist opinions... but it pays forward/back because then they can reach a compromising middle.

But society's become so terminally online it seems everyone's forgotten that. Go ahead and go on twitter or some other social media and see (X) minority being exactly the -ist chauvinists they hate (X) majority or "oppressor" for, versus how fast they'd be (rightly) punched in the face if they said that crap in real life, but because they can't it just lowers sympathy that much more for them. But society can't quite unplug yet because the internet's taking over not just entertainment, not just the economy, but too much regular communication methods and it all intertwines with one another (witness the lamentations of the death of "the third place" outside home and work as an area to socialize in). Bitch-ass weak men like Tony thrive in this because everyone's struggling to make connections or ends meet, they realize how much institutions have crumbled and can't trust them anymore, yet still have empathy for those who really may be suffering worse than they because again they're actually decent fucking people...

....and Tony is taking advantage of that and the strides society has made since pre-internet days despite troons really having no qualities that have been historically persecuted (maleness, white skin, etc.). Insidious, really, when you think about it...

The entire basis of troonery, a lot of this "progressive" "social justice" in general, is leveraging other people's decency and good faith against them. An accusation of transphobia or racism or whatever only works because most people don't want to be those things. If their accusations about society were true they would have no leverage ever, they would have no chance of achieving civil rights or whatever else they claim they're arguing for.

But these are people who didn't learn the lesson of The Boy Who Cried Wolf: never tell the same lie twice.

 

[Chandelier]

Also:

One thing I love asking these troons is how they feel about killing brown kids. They'll fly flags for Palestine and say they fought for our freedom, but killing brown kids for oil wars doesn't give me freedom.

Of course, it's a forty year old man telling a woman she's just being a mouthy bitch and to shut up.

That bearded man has an erection; no pooner can have an "erection" without plenty of q-tips and saran wraps.

That shitty comic also implies a woman would ever shower that close to a transwoman. Or why the transwoman is allowed to stay in the woman's space, but not the pooner.

always hate when the troons shit on girls who are complaining (or people complaining on their behalf) about troons who placed but didn't get first place. The troons will say "durr hurr hurr some girls beat them". Yeah, but they're still displacing the girls below them who still deserve to have their rightful ranking recognized.

It's basically "just shut up and let the boys win." Don't make a fuss. Be a good girl and be quiet.

"Just swim faster, just hit harder, just run faster, just go x y and z and maybe, just maybe, you'll beat the boy who thinks it's his right to be there."

That is an attitude I hate. "Oh you think cis girls are inferior to boys? Wow SOO FEMINIST"

There are innate biological differences. You can go on YouTube and find red pill content where they show videos of women getting bodied by men. Real life is not Hollywood. Men have more pound for pound power and faster recovery times - and we know PBs don't eliminate their larger mass and greater height. I'm fucking sick of this shit.

That teen should not have been assaulted. But he did escalate the suitation. I'm not saying it's his fault, just that he didn't help himself there. Still, male on male violence is a problem for men to solve. Women are not shields for violent men.

But it's somehow still our job to protect transwomen from men, because these 6'0-6'5 uwu princesses can't throw a punch despite threatening TERFs with violence.

Hair update. Out with the old, in with the new!

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This man dresses like a 1950s housewife with bras that only make his rocket tits look like cones. You do not have tits, Tony. You're just getting fat.

As for his hair, it alternates between getting greasy and fried. Does he not brush it?