Elon Musk slams SPLC for labelling Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA a 'hate group'
Source: Yahoo! News/The Independent
Mon, May 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM EDT
Elon Musk has called the non-profit Southern Poverty Law Center a “scam organization” after it included MAGA activist Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA on its signature “Hate Map” and branded it “an anti-government extremist group.” Kirk’s Arizona-based collective was founded in 2012 and considers itself “the largest and fastest-growing” conservative grassroots organization in the United States. It boasts a presence on “over 3,500 campuses” nationwide. It has long been associated with President Donald Trump, who has regularly delivered speeches to its gatherings.
But the SPLC’s inclusion of TPUSA on the map places it in the same company as regional chapters of the Ku Klux Klan and other far-right, neo-Nazi and Islamophobic organizations. Kirk, 31, who is currently on a speaking tour of the United Kingdom and last week addressed the Oxford Union, responded angrily in a lengthy post on X by calling the SPLC’s move “a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades.”
He continued: “They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their ‘hate map’ nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery ‘Poverty Palace’ while crying about ‘hate’ to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a ‘con.’ “Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs.”
Kirk concluded his rant by claiming that “nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore” and branding the SPLC “a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that’s been exposed as a grift time and time again” and fuming: “They’re not just irrelevant – they’re a cautionary tale of how to torch your own credibility.” The world’s richest man reacted to Kirk’s post by declaring, “SPLC is a scam organization. " Kirk replied enthusiastically with two 100 percent emojis, signaling his agreement. The Independent has contacted the SPLC for its response to Kirk’s attack.
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The stone was thrown in the pig pen and there go the squealing pigs!
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IIRC, whoever was running the front company was prosecuted. (The funding turned out to be Russian, naturally). 
Of course, Southern and Kirk et al. got away with it, but I know Southern was compelled to testify (the footage was on YouTube). I'm not sure if Kirk testified, but at the very least, he had to hire a very expensive national-security law firm--almost certainly one in Canada. Then there are the travel costs, etc. I know Kirk has his sugar daddy funding him, but at least they were forced to waste a bunch of money on a legal case they could have easily avoided. As I said, anyone older than a kindergartener should have seen it coming a mile away.
.....takes campaign bribes from Bit Coin criminals? Oh, that's rich 
