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Anti-conservative
forces of many different stripes are waging asymmetric warfare against
all conservative elements of society to completely silence them.
Mastercard has already crippled several conservative groups by
withdrawing their ability to receive donations. ⁃ TN Editor
On
Tuesday, leftist activists targeted Mastercard’s shareholder meeting,
demanding the Board of Directors adopt a “human rights committee”
dedicated to blacklisting organizations unfairly accused of being “hate
groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Activists with the
group SumOfUs pestered the board with spurious questions about “doing
business with criminals” in pursuit of its “blood money” campaign.
Nandini Jammi, a representative
of the leftist group SumOfUs, demanded the shareholders and board
members support proposal five, “which asks the board of directors to
create a human rights committee at the board level. At least 2,300
people have written to their pensions and mutual funds in support of
this proposal, and 127,000 people have signed a petition calling on
Mastercard to stop processing payments for far-right hate groups.”
“I’m here to inform you that
you have lost control of your financial network. Thanks to your
financial partners, you are open for business with criminals,” Jammi
declared.
“Charlottesville. Pittsburgh.
New Zealand. There have been deadly consequences more than once. The
white nationalist movement has gone global and it’s time for you to
investigate who has been let into Mastercard’s network,” the leftist
argued.
While Jammi did mention one
legitimate concern — Mastercard allegedly processing accounts for a
Neo-Nazi group in Germany, where Neo-Nazi organizations are illegal —
her activism clearly aims at getting all the so-called conservative
“hate groups” cut off from bank transactions.
The activist also parked a van
outside the Mastercard shareholders’ meeting, plastered with the
message, “Putting hate groups out of business? Priceless.” SumOfUs
tweeted the image with the hashtag “NoMoreBloodmoney,” a reference to
their “blood money” campaign.
That campaign pressures U.S.
financial companies to blacklist various “hate groups,” heavily relying
on the discredited accusations of the SPLC. The SPLC targeted the Ku
Klux Klan and featured its battles with the KKK in fundraising
literature. Eventually, it expanded this fundraising ploy by monitoring
“hate groups.” The ever-expanding “hate group” accusation “is a
financial and repetitional death sentence, effectively equating
organizations to the KKK,” Meghan Meier, a lawyer who defended a victim
of the SPLC’s “hate” accusations,
told PJ Media.
“No
right-thinking person wants to be associated with the KKK, so the
SPLC’s ‘hate group’ accusation is incredibly effective at shaming
organizations and causing them to be shunned by donors, fundraising
platforms, service providers, the media, and others. Shaming and
shunning are hallmarks of what makes a statement ‘defamatory’ under the
common law,” she said, suggesting the accusations make the SPLC
vulnerable to defamation lawsuits.
Yet the “hate group”
accusations also suffer from more serious revelations. This March, the
SPLC was roiled with a racism and sexism scandal, and amid the scandal,
former employees admitted that the “hate group” accusations were an
elaborate fundraising scheme.
Mastercard, in particular, seems to have been responsible for
Patreon booting Jihad Watch and
its founder Robert Spencer (not to be confused with the white
nationalist Richard Spencer) off its platform. Jihad Watch monitors
radical Islam and radical Islamic terror. These actions are far from
illegal or “hateful.”
Similarly, ACT for America and
the Center for Security Policy promote America’s national security. Many
conservative Christian organizations on the SPLC’s “anti-LGBT hate
group” list follow the Bible’s definition of marriage and reject gender
identity.
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Source: technocracy.news
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