UN SPLC Co-Founder Morris Dees Fired - Naziwhiner General purged after almost 50 years for workplace bullying

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The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired Morris Dees, the civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator.

Dees, 82, co-founded the Montgomery-based organization in 1971.

SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees' dismissal was effective on Wednesday, March 13.

"As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world," Cohen said in the emailed statement. "When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action."

"Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected."

A message seeking further comment was left on Cohen’s cell phone Thursday afternoon, and additional question regarding Dees' termination have been sent to SPLC's press office.

Dees' biography appeared scrubbed from the SPLC's website as news broke of his termination on Thursday afternoon.

The attorney, a Montgomery native, has been a fixture in politics since the group's ascension, though his organization has faced scrutiny in the past.

A 1994 Montgomery Advertiser series provided a deep look into the organization controlled by the multimillionaire Dees, illustrating his near-singular control over the organization and its mammoth budget.

It revealed a figure seen as heroic by some and single-minded by others who criticized Dees as more focused on raising money than fighting injustice.

The series also alleged discriminatory treatment of black employees within the advocacy group, despite its outward efforts to improve the treatment of minorities in the country. Staffers at the time “accused Morris Dees, the center’s driving force, of being a racist and black employees have ‘felt threatened and banded together.’” The organization denied the accusations raised in the series.

Dees' central role in the organization has also led to numerous threats against him, and the Advertiser previously reported that he has 24-hour protection at his home.

Over the years, the SPLC has continued to amass a massive war chest of funds from donors amid differing levels of scrutiny.

In recent years, the organization has become nationally known and scrutinized for its Hatewatch work tracking the rise of hate groups, particularly white supremacists.

It continues to produce research and advocacy on a variety of topics, including payday lending, civil asset forfeiture and immigration rights.

The SPLC also continues its day-to-day civil rights litigation, including an ongoing lawsuit to address prison conditions in Alabama.

“The SPLC is deeply committed to having a workplace that reflects the values it espouses – truth, justice, equity and inclusion, and we believe the steps we have taken today reaffirm that commitment," Cohen said.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Brian Lyman contributed to this report.

Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Melissa Brown at 334-240-0132 or mabrown@gannett.com.
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https://eu.montgomeryadvertiser.com...r-civil-rights-lawyer-morris-dees/3164839002/

Given how the SPLC has been used ever more increasingly increasingly as an "official rubber stamp" of bigotry/nazism against everyone who pisses off various journalists and activists, from left wing muslim reformists to schoolkids smiling in public while harassed by black supremecists and boozed up injuns to people who post fucking pepe memes among others, and this guy is not only the co-founder but has long faced accusations of encouraging and supporting this sort of dishonest and cynical chicanery in order to get more donations from terrified rich liberal idiots, the question I have is whether this is a case of somebody desperately trying to clean house and steer the ship away from death by a thousand lawsuits, or whether it is simply that he was not fanatical enough in persecuting the heretics in the eyes of the REEEE mob the SPLC shitshow has been hiring as of late.

Word in jungleland is that its the latter, and this passage from the article seems to hint at just that
A 1994 Montgomery Advertiser series provided a deep look into the organization controlled by the multimillionaire Dees, illustrating his near-singular control over the organization and its mammoth budget.

It revealed a figure seen as heroic by some and single-minded by others who criticized Dees as more focused on raising money than fighting injustice.

The series also alleged discriminatory treatment of black employees within the advocacy group, despite its outward efforts to improve the treatment of minorities in the country. Staffers at the time “accused Morris Dees, the center’s driving force, of being a racist and black employees have ‘felt threatened and banded together.’” The organization denied the accusations raised in the series.
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It's only a matter of time. The center long since ran out of hate groups and biker gangs. Now they're relegated to individuals. The problem is that if the SPLC puts you down, its assumed you're a Nazi.

Now with the success of lawsuits, if they fuck up, they can be sued. And they are a fat piggybank. Once cleansed of experienced lawyers and staffed with blue check marks who think they can slander people without consequences, it will become a shit show.

Once it switches from a scam to an activist org, the DNC will purge it.
 
They're always sex pests, every single time.
 
Today I learned that the SPLC had Maajid Nawaz listed as an "Anti-Islamic extremist". That's almost as exceptional as when they claimed Internet Bloodsports was an online Nazi movement.

Why is it that all these far-left organizations who are proud feminism supporters are full of guys who can't keep their hands to themselves?
 
Once upon a time we needed a giant arms industry to fight a world war. Now, it's bigger than ever, even though there's no one to fight anymore.

Once upon a time we needed an army of lawyers to fight an epidemic of mob violence. Now, it's bigger than ever, even though there's no one to fight anymore.
 
Troutsmacked said:
Today I learned that the SPLC had Maajid Nawaz listed as an "Anti-Islamic extremist". That's almost as exceptional as when they claimed Internet Bloodsports was an online Nazi movement.

Why is it that all these far-left organizations who are proud feminism supporters are full of guys who can't keep their hands to themselves?
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Because they're a bunch of degenerate fuckups who project their (actual) transgressions on to other people, and latched on to the ideology they felt most likely to shield them from consequences as long as they spout the party line.
 
Southern Poverty Law Center picks Michelle Obama's former chief of staff Tina Tchen to investigate workplace complaints

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...rty-law-center-tina-tchen-20190318-story.html (http://archive.fo/GUZWW)
The Southern Poverty Law Center has tapped Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff to lead a “top-to-bottom” examination of its workplace culture, less than a week after the anti-hate nonprofit fired co-founder Morris Dees for misconduct and its staff complained of discrimination against women and people of color.

Tina Tchen, who began leading Buckley LLP law firms’s Chicago office after serving in the White House, will lead a review that reports to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s board of directors, the nonprofit announced Monday.

The left-leaning Montgomery, Ala., organization, which tracks extremist groups across the U.S., is scrambling on two fronts to address employee unrest over working conditions, while also patching the hole left by Dees, whose firing last Thursday for undisclosed misconduct caught many staff members by surprise and delighted some of the center’s far-right adversaries.

“The events of the last week have been an eye-opening reminder that the walk towards justice must sometimes start at your own front door and force you to look at your past so you can improve your future,” Bryan Fair, chairman of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sent in a message to staff on Monday.

Tchen will “hold a mirror” up to the organization and its leaders, Fair wrote: “No one’s actions, no matter that person’s position at the SPLC, including those of us on the board, will be exempt from scrutiny and accountability.”

Tchen most recently chaired the Recording Academy’s task force on inclusion and diversity, which was launched after the 2018 Grammy Awards, when the Academy’s president and CEO said women needed to “step up” to achieve more representation in the music industry. Last month, Tchen’s task force proposed a series of reforms designed to bring more female producers and engineers into consideration for work.

Tchen, who co-founded the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund to support women experiencing harassment at work, told The Times in an interview Monday that her scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center would go beyond Dees, who has denied wrongdoing.

“Culture in an organization the size of SPLC isn’t really about one person, even as dynamic as Morris Dees,” Tchen said. She added that allegations of discrimination in “mission-driven” organizations, which suffer from the same problems they purport to fight, can be especially painful.

The leadership of the center is predominantly white, and after one of the center’s black attorneys announced her resignation earlier this month — writing in a message to staff that there was “more work to do” to make women and people of color feel welcome — a group of staffers shared additional concerns with management in a letter.

“SPLC’s integrity is on the line,” the group wrote, adding that internal “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of this organization and our integrity along with it.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s leaders promised to take steps addressing their employees’ concerns over inclusion, which includes Tchen’s hiring.

“I am honored to be asked by SPLC to do this work,” Tchen said. “I have admired it from afar for many years. It’s an important civil justice institution in our country.”

She added that she wanted to “continue to build it as a workplace everyone can be proud of.”
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This woman has also been involved with the Jussie Smollett story.
 
Is Tina Tchen a woman or a "woman"?

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I wouldn't be surprised that w/e official story is, is bullshit. He probably stole a bunch of money. SPLC is sitting on $400M+ in offshore accounts. He takes some, others find out. He says he'll spill the beans, if they fuck with him. They give him a nice severance package, seal all records, roll a fake news story for the their sheep to eat up, and everyone moves on.
 
First it was Morris Dees been fired and now, it's Richard Cohen who left the SPLC.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-splc-richard-cohen-resigns-20190322-story.html ( http://archive.is/XfWnA )

The president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced his resignation Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the anti-hate organization amid allegations of misconduct and workplace discrimination of female and black employees.
Cohen had been with the organization since 1986 and had been one of its most prominent figures in the public eye. His departure comes one week after he fired his longtime partner, Morris Dees — the center’s co-founder, chief trial counsel and its biggest public face for nearly half a century — for undisclosed misconduct.

At 5:03 p.m. Friday, Cohen sent a message to staff, with the subject line “Stepping Down,” announcing that he, too, would be leaving the organization that he and Dees had turned into a research and fundraising juggernaut.
“Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them,” Cohen wrote, while asking the staff to avoid jumping to conclusions before the board completes an internal review of the Montgomery, Ala., organization’s work culture. Earlier this week, the board of directors announced that it had appointed Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff for Michelle Obama, to lead the inquiry.

Cohen told staff that he had asked the center’s board of directors in October to start searching for a new president, citing a need for a transition to a new generation of leadership. But “in light of recent events, I’ve asked the board to immediately launch a search for an interim president in order to give the organization the best chance to heal,” Cohen wrote.
A spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center declined to comment.
Cohen’s resignation comes the same day as a resignation by the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, who did not give a reason for her departure in a brief email to her colleagues. Brownstein did not respond to requests for comment via email and LinkedIn.
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Looks like Cohen left before a more bigger shit hit the SPLC fan.
 
Oglooger said:
Somewhere in his grave, Dr Pierce is smiling.
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Tom Metzger is certainly pleased at this bit of news. That's his revenge for the SPLC royally fucking him over:
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Tom Metzger said:
Poor Morris Dees. His gravy train is finally slowing down. In my trial he suborned perjury and put a witness on a continuing payoff after my civil trial to keep his mouth shut.I reviewed his tax records from the IRS where it was found that he had a money sock called THE SOUTHERN TRUST FUND' When the Alabama Department that kept track of such things was asked about it. I was told there department had never heard of it..His tax records said he took 7 million in that year. I have to hand it to him through his criminal actions he was able to get my house and small business but I and my family did survive. Oh yes I took that case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States unfortunately they were too busy to hear it. White workingman you know.

To those who are really interested in bringing a crook to justice start really digging into this shining example of the Southern millionaires Law Center. One more thing his first customer was the Klan.But he found their pockets weren't deep enough so he switched to the liberal gravy train..Incidentally that was the infamous attack on a freedom rider bus in Montgomery.
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For those unaware, the SPLC successfully sued Tom Metzger because some skinheads he never knew beat some African immigrant to death in a streetfight which somehow made him responsible. The problem was no lawyer would take his case unless he had six figures upfront.
 
RichardMongler said:
Tom Metzger is certainly pleased at this bit of news. That's his revenge for the SPLC royally fucking him over:

For those unaware, the SPLC successfully sued Tom Metzger because some skinheads he never knew beat some African immigrant to death in a streetfight which somehow made him responsible. The problem was no lawyer would take his case unless he had six figures upfront.
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I menaged to save Tom Metzger's tweet gab on Archive.is. http://archive.is/8sDzu

I saw that old Morris Dees meme from this blog. http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2015/06/dylann-roof-and-mossad.html ( http://archive.is/nDAoO ) I guess we might see some new memes about the SPLC, Morris Dees and Richard Cohen more sooner then we thought.
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High-level firings at visible nonprofits are almost never done this wa

Usually, they're told they're fired 6-8 months before they are, they stay on while securing another position or retirement, they're given between $500K and a mil on severance, and finally there's the press release about how awesome a job they did and good luck in their future endeavors, usually at another firm.

If the CEO has fucked up optics, he takes a medical leave or time with his family somewhere in the above equation..

Very rarely does an org go about housecleaning the way SPLC currently is.
 
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