{"id":400019,"date":"2019-03-17T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-there-is-any-justice-the-firing-of-its-founder\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T21:30:17","slug":"if-there-is-any-justice-the-firing-of-its-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-there-is-any-justice-the-firing-of-its-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"If There Is Any Justice, the Firing of Its Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few private organizations can match the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to hypocrisy and malign influence, though Media Matters for America might be close. In a development shocking only to its leftist true believers, the founder and most prominent public face of the group, Morris Dees, was fired for unspecified reasons. The\u00a0Montgomery Advertiser<\/a>, the home town paper where it is located, reported:<\/p>\n

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SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees\u2019 dismissal over his misconduct was effective on Wednesday, March 13. When pressed for details on what led to the termination, the organization declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs 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,\u201d Cohen said in the emailed statement.\u00a0\u201cWhen 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.\u201d
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Dees, 82, co-founded the Montgomery-based organization in 1971.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not my decision, what they did,\u201d Dees said when reached by phone. \u201cI wish the center the absolute best. Whatever reasons they had of theirs, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead of any transparency and accountability, the most the SPLC would even hint at was:<\/p>\n

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Dees\u2019 termination is one of several steps taken by the organization this week, Cohen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we\u2019re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Few private organizations can match the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to hypocrisy and malign influence, though Media Matters for America might be close. In a development shocking only to its leftist true believers, the founder and most prominent public face of the group, Morris Dees, was fired for unspecified reasons. The\u00a0Montgomery Advertiser, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}